Australians are moving to broadband and downloading twice as much data as they did a year ago.

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics give a revealing snapshot of our internet use. Australia has 8.4 million internet subscribers. Of these around 30% are on broadband (1.5Mbps-8Mbps), almost double last year's numbers.

Internet connected businesses total 1.4 million, of these only 215,000 are still on dial-up and the number is dropping fast.

Mobile wireless connections increased by 600,00 in the past six months to 1.96 million.

The Federal Opposition leader, meanwhile, has accused the government's National Broadband Network plan of being so far 'nothing more than a press release ... all they have done is hire somebody for $2 million a year to try to work out whether what Mr Rudd promised can actually be delivered.'

Let's all cross our fingers and hope that the NBN is deliverable and will, in fact, be delivered.