Report Summary
This market report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of
the market across the various economies of Asia. Asia makes a strong claim to be leading the
world when it comes to the development of broadband Internet. In fact, in 2008 after the
mobile market, broadband is the fastest growing telecom market segment in Asia. The
energetic expansion of broadband, however, has remained more of a phenomenon limited to the
developed economies, with narrowband dial-up access being the norm in the poorer developing
countries of the region.
Of course, there are signs that this is changing, but for the moment there is a ‘digital
gap’. In those economies where the broadband market is taking off, DSL and cable modem
platforms have both proved popular, with DSL having had a clear advantage. With DSL
dominating the world market, Asia has become the leading market in the world for DSL, with
about 38% of the world’s DSL subscribers. More recently, we have seen the advent of FttH as
an alternative platform for broadband access. In the leading technology markets of Japan and
South Korea FttH is starting to displace other forms of high-speed Internet access.
With broadband Internet continuing to take Asia by storm, the region’s broadband market
finds itself dominated by six players. And these are predominantly the economies of North
Asia. South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Taiwan and Japan, for the moment at least,
have left the rest of the region behind in terms of penetration and sophistication of their
broadband services and infrastructure.
Of these leading countries, South Korea is the most remarkable example of the Asian
broadband revolution, with a broadband subscriber penetration in mid-2008 greater than 31%,
while more than 90% of households in the country have a high-speed broadband Internet
connection.
Report Outline
1. Afghanistan
1.1 Overview
1.1.1 Broadband statistics
1.2 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
2. Armenia
2.1 Overview
2.2 Wireless Internet
2.3 Armenian Datacom Company (ADC)
3. Azerbaijan
3.1 Overview
3.1.1 Broadband statistics
4. Bangladesh
4.1 Overview
5. Bhutan
5.1 Overview
6. Brunei Darussalam
6.1 Overview
6.1.1 Broadband statistics
7. Cambodia
7.1 Overview
7.2 MediaRing’s acquisition of AngkorNet
8. China
8.1 Overview
8.1.1 Broadband statistics
8.2 Broadband forecasts
8.3 Broadband networks
8.3.1 Overview
8.3.2 Cable modems
8.3.3 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
8.3.4 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
8.3.5 Broadband over Powerline (BPL)
8.3.6 Wireless broadband
8.4 Major broadband service providers
8.4.1 China Telecom
8.4.2 China Netcom
8.4.3 China Tietong
8.4.4 Other broadband providers
9. Georgia
9.1 Overview
9.1.1 Broadband statistics
10. Hong Kong
10.1 Overview
10.2 Regulatory issues
10.2.1 Regulatory developments
10.3 Broadband statistics
10.4 Cable modems
10.5 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
10.6 Major broadband operators
10.6.1 i-Cable
10.6.2 Hong Kong Broadband Network Services (City Telecom - CTInets)
10.6.3 Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW)
10.6.4 HKNet
10.6.5 CPCNet Hong Kong (PSINet Hong Kong Ltd)
10.6.6 Pacific Internet
10.6.7 SmarTone Broadband Services
11. India
11.1 Overview
11.1.1 Broadband statistics
11.2 Market development
11.3 National Broadband Policy 2004
11.4 Personal computers
11.5 Cable modems
11.6 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
11.7 Wireless broadband
11.7.1 WiMAX
11.8 Satellite
11.8.1 DirecPC
11.8.2 Bharti Broadband Networks
11.8.3 Reliance broadband network
11.9 Other broadband networks
12. Indonesia
12.1 Overview
12.1.1 Broadband statistics
12.2 First Media
12.3 TelkomNet
12.4 Wireless broadband
12.4.1 WiMAX
12.4.2 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)
12.4.3 Internet via satellite
13. Japan
13.1 Overview
13.1.1 Broadband statistics
13.1.2 Mega Consortium/Broadband Consortium Japan (BB Japan)
13.1.3 Impact of broadband on voice market
13.2 Cable modems
13.2.1 Market overview
13.2.2 Regulatory issues
13.3 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
13.3.1 Market overview
13.3.2 Major DSL providers
13.4 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
13.4.1 Market overview
13.4.2 Major FttH players
13.5 Broadband over powerline (BPL)/powerline communications (PLC)
13.6 Global LAN Ethernet
14. Kazakhstan
14.1 Overview
14.1.1 Broadband statistics
14.2 Broadband TV (IPTV)
15. Kyrgyzstan
15.1 Overview
15.1.1 Broadband statistics
16. Laos
16.1 Overview
16.1.1 Broadband statistics
17. Macau
17.1 Overview
17.1.1 Broadband statistics
18. Malaysia
18.1 Overview
18.1.1 Broadband statistics
18.2 Broadband infrastructure
18.3 Broadband Internet
18.4 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
18.5 Wireless broadband
18.5.1 WiMAX
18.5.2 Time dotCom
18.5.3 NasionCom
18.6 Broadband Powerline (BPL)
18.7 Internet via satellite
19. Maldives
19.1 Overview
19.1.1 Broadband statistics
19.2 Internet via satellite
20. Mongolia
20.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
20.1.1 Broadband statistics
20.2 Fibre-to-the-building (FttB) project
21. Myanmar
21.1 Overview
21.1.1 Broadband statistics
22. Nepal
22.1 Overview
23. Pakistan
23.1 Overview
23.1.1 Broadband statistics
23.2 Cable modems
23.3 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
23.4 Wireless broadband/WiMAX
23.5 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
23.6 Internet via satellite
24. Philippines
24.1 Overview
24.1.1 Broadband statistics
24.2 Regulatory issues
24.3 National Broadband Network (NBN)
24.4 Cable modems
24.5 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
24.5.1 PLDT’s myDSL
24.5.2 BayanTel
24.5.3 GlobeNet
24.5.4 Bell Telecom’s I-Direct
25. Singapore
25.1 Overview
25.1.1 Broadband statistics
25.2 Broadband Multimedia Network – Singapore One
25.2.1 Project overview
25.2.2 Project development
25.3 Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure (Next Gen NII)
25.3.1 Planning phase
25.3.2 Proposal phase
25.4 Broadband service providers
25.5 Cable modems
25.6 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
25.7 Powerline broadband
25.8 Internet via satellite
25.9 IP-Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN)
25.10 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
25.11 Wireless broadband
25.11.1 Allocation of wireless broadband spectrum
25.11.2 Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS)
25.11.3 WiFi
25.11.4 The Wireless@SG initiative
25.11.5 Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
26. South Korea
26.1 Overview
26.1.1 Broadband statistics
26.2 Growth drivers
26.2.1 Housing situation
26.2.2 Price
26.2.3 Broadband content
26.2.4 Government support
26.3 Major broadband ISPs
26.3.1 Broadband ISP market leaders
26.3.2 KT/KorNet
26.3.3 Hanaro Telecom/HanaNet
26.3.4 Korea Thrunet
26.3.5 Dacom/BoraNet
26.3.6 Onse
26.4 Broadband services
26.4.1 Overview
26.4.2 Cable modem
26.4.3 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
26.4.4 Very high data rate DSL (VDSL)
26.4.5 Apartment LAN (A-LAN)
26.4.6 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
26.4.7 Broadband over Powerline (BPL)/Powerline Communications (PLC)
26.4.8 Wireless broadband
27. Sri Lanka
27.1 Overview
27.1.1 Broadband statistics
27.1.2 School Net project
27.2 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
27.3 Wireless broadband
28. Taiwan
28.1 Overview
28.1.1 Broadband statistics
28.1.2 National Information Infrastructure project
28.1.3 Government initiatives for broadband
28.2 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
28.3 Cable modems
28.4 Wireless broadband
28.4.1 WiMAX
28.4.2 M-Taiwan project
28.5 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
28.6 Video-on-Demand (VoD)
28.6.1 Broadband content market
28.7 High-speed ISP services
28.7.1 GigaMedia
29. Thailand
29.1 Overview
29.1.1 Broadband statistics
29.2 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
29.3 Cable modems
29.4 Internet via satellite
29.5 Wireless Internet
29.5.1 WiMAX
29.6 Major broadband operators
29.6.1 True
29.6.2 TOT
29.6.3 CAT
29.6.4 Advance Datanetwork Communications (ADC)
29.6.5 Triple T Broadband/TT&T
30. Uzbekistan
30.1 Overview
30.1.1 Broadband statistics
31. Vietnam
31.1 Overview
31.1.1 Broadband statistics
32. Glossary of Abbreviations
