The year-on-year growth to September 2002 was 5.9 per cent for dial-up connections, with an increase of 0.4 per cent from August to September 2002. The year-on-year growth was 326% per cent for permanent connections, with an increase of 8.9% from August to September 2002.
Dial-up connections continued to dominate the overall number of subscriptions, but with permanent connections continuing to increase their share.
In September 2002, the percentage of subscriptions using each access plan were: Free Access (28%), Unmetered Access (36%), Billing (19%), Mixed access (5%), Always-on (4%) and Other (8%).