It sure beats watching Biggest Loser

I just found an email from those clever people at SmartCompany – check them out at www.smartcompany.com.au

Evidently we Australians mustn’t be the outgoing nation we once were – we seem to be staying at home more and cruising the ’net. Or are we?

The Australian Bureau of Statistics reckons that we’re taking up new broadband and wireless internet connections in record numbers. Broadband jumped 33% between September 2006 and December 2007, from 3.91 million to 7.1 million.

Wireless was the big achiever. Over 481,000 people were connected to wireless broadband at the end of the December quarter 2007, more than three times the 186,000 connected in September 2006.

Not good news for cable manufacturers.

Broadband speeds have picked up significantly. The number of people with broadband capable of download speeds of 1.5Mbps or greater increased by 35% to 2.51 million in the 15 months to December 2007.

Good news for listed companies embarking this year on their first ‘proper’ HTML online annual report. Now that online is the hero in these post-Legislation times, it’s comforting to know that those nice people in wireless broadband land are making it easy for thousands of shareholders to view company annual reports in the comfort of their own home, at picnics, family gatherings, the footie, the pub, at the beach, on the train…

It almost makes you want to go out and buy some shares!

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