Hi all.

I was reading the Commerce Commission's 2020 telecoms industry questionnaire results the other day (https://comcom.govt.nz/regulated-industries/telecommunications/monitoring-the-telecommunications-market/annual-telecommunications-market-monitoring-report), and noticed that they said: “Total retail fixed network broadband data used by customers” is a bit over 5 million TBs.

That got me thinking: a retail broadband provider operating a data (aka packet-switched) network will offload some traffic (traffic generated on third-party apps like Gmail, Netflix etc) to the Internet; and will 'manage' the remainder (traffic generated by its own apps like voice over broadband, business VPNs etc) on its own network. [Feel free to correct me if this is inaccurate]

My question is: does anyone have an estimate of what proportion of traffic would be offloaded to the Internet and what proportion would remain on the RSP's managed network? As a consumer with a broadband connection that does not include a managed voice over broadband service, I have a natural inclination to think that most traffic would get offloaded to the Internet. But I wonder if business customers generate heaps of managed traffic.