Internet Filtering Offered by ISPs

Statistics New Zealand recently released the results of their latest survey of ISPs (Internet Survey Providers). This included data on how many ISPs offered an Internet content filtering service.

In slightly over two years, the proportion of ISPs offering some sort of filtering service has increase from one in five to to one in three.

Filtering Service Offered by Internet Service Providers (%)

Mar 2007 Sep 2007 Mar 2008 Jun 2009
Free service 5 11 15 21
Charged service 11 16 15 16
Both free and charged 5 5 5 5
None 79 74 75 63