Fastest Fixed Network Award Australia Q1-Q2 2018 Telstra is Australia’s Speedtest® Awards Winner for fixed network speed. To win this award, Telstra achieved a Speed Score™ of 27.32, with top speeds of 72.99 Mbps for download and 20.14 Mbps for upload. Telstra is also fastest in the peak busy period from 7-11pm. Speed Score Australia’s Tests by City Ookla® compared user-initiated tests that are taken on various Speedtest applications connected to a fixed network, including tests taken on mobile 27.32 phones over a Wi-Fi connection. All major provider results from the award period in Australia are represented in the map.

Test Speed Carrier Count Score

Telstra 5,225,629 27.32

Optus 3,001,529 26.52

TPG 2,330,089 23.45

iiNet 2,016,816 22.24

iPrimus 725,358 20.49

Speed Score incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance. See next page for more detail.

Market Statistics

Test Count Top Download Speed: Top Upload Speed: Average Latency:

15,844,687 72.58 Mbps 31.74 Mbps 33 ms

User Count Mbps Mbps ms 9,698,177

Telstra 3,368,890 Telstra 72.99 Telstra 20.14 Telstra 32

Optus 1,777,643 Optus 69.00 Optus 27.46 Optus 30

TPG 1,292,990 TPG 71.89 TPG 34.35 TPG 30

iiNet 1,374,800 iiNet 63.64 iiNet 32.61 iiNet 37

iPrimus 413,280 iPrimus 46.86 iPrimus 28.39 iPrimus 28 Fastest Mobile Award Australia Q1-Q2 2018

How Speed Score Works When analyzing fastest operators, Ookla solely considers top carriers (all carriers with 3% or more of total test samples in the market for the period). We then determine the fastest carrier using Speed Score which incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance (90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10% to upload speed). The Speed Score uses a modified trimean to demonstrate the download and upload speeds that are available across a provider’s network. We take speeds from the 10th percentile, 50th percentile (also known as the median), and 90th percentile, and combine them in a weighted average using a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. We place the most emphasis on the download speeds and median speeds as those represent what most network providers’ customers will experience on a day-to-day basis.

Download 90th 50th 10th Upload 90th 50th 10th Provider Name Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile

Telstra 29.63 72.99 21.27 2.96 6.55 20.14 2.73 0.59

Optus 28.59 69.00 20.79 3.77 7.92 27.46 1.80 0.61

TPG 25.00 71.89 12.57 2.96 9.50 34.35 1.54 0.58

iiNet 23.60 63.64 14.10 2.57 9.98 32.61 3.38 0.55

iPrimus 21.70 46.86 18.18 3.58 9.58 28.39 4.66 0.63

State Network Speeds

State Carrier Speed Score Mbps Mbps

New South Wales Telstra 29.29 30.67 8.18 Optus 26.95 28.18 7.79 TPG 24.51 27.06 13.4 iPrimus 22.02 24.97 10.09

iiNet 18.74 22.84 8.48

Queensland Telstra 26.01 28.74 7.41 Uniti 25.17 28.07 13.04 TPG 25.09 26.48 8.68 iPrimus 22.24 25.52 10.20

Optus 19.63 23.83 8.92

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Peak Hour Speeds

The tests taken in the period in which their residential services are busiest, currently between 7pm and 11pm, confirmed Telstra with the highest speeds during the peak hours.

Provider Test Count Speed Score Mbps

Telstra 1,416,437 26.38 28.91 iiNet 595,851 21.89 26.64 Optus 912,740 22.70 24.69 TPG 692,903 20.50 23.88 iPrimus 214,310 20.07 23.33

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Methodology For more information on our methodology visit Speedtest.net/Awards