Research and Markets: Asian Fixed Broadband and Internet Market Report 2010

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/65de3c/asian_fixed_broadb) has announced the addition of the "Asian Fixed Broadband and Internet Market" report to their offering.

This market report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of the telecom 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, after the mobile market, broadband has been the fastest growing telecom market segment in Asia.

The countries covered in this report include: Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, China, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

The energetic expansion of broadband, however, has remained more of a phenomenon limited to the developed economies, with narrowband dial-up access continuing to be the norm in the majority of the poorer developing countries of the region. Of course, this is starting to change, with a number of interesting examples breaking the trend, but for the moment, there remains a digital gap. In those economies where the broadband market has taken off, both DSL and cable modem platforms have both proved popular, but DSL has established a clear advantage. With DSL dominating the world fixed broadband access market, Asia has become the leading region in the world for DSL, with close to 40% of the global DSL subscribers. More recently, we have seen the advent of FttX as an alternative platform for broadband access in Asia. In the leading technology markets of Japan and South Korea, FttX already comprises over 50% of the high speed Internet access connections.

As broadband Internet continues to extend its presence across Asia, the regions broadband market finds itself dominated by six players. These High ranked markets 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 both penetration and sophistication of their broadband services and infrastructure. The penetration gap is clearly seen in the Exhibit below.

South Korea has been the most remarkable example of the Asian broadband revolution in the leading markets. By mid-2010 broadband subscriber penetration sat close to 35%, and over 85% of households in the country had very high speed broadband Internet connections.

Another market of special note in the region is Singapore where the government has been implementing broadband Internet access wired and wireless - for the whole of the island state. According to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Singapores telecom regulator, the Household Broadband Penetration Rate was 165% in May 2010. The analysis of the Singapore figures is complicated by the fact that the IDA includes wireless access (3.5G/HSDPA and WiMAX) in its household access count. Accordingly, there were 1.18 million fixed broadband services (DSL and cable modem) in Singapore in May 2010. At the same time there were 1.16 million households.

The regional broadband market in Asia consists of a large number of relatively small countries. There continues to be considerable activity in the Internet and online markets across Asia ranging from Chinas impressive progress in terms of sheer scale to Mongolia which has doubled household penetration in the last year to almost 10% and implemented numerous e-government initiatives. China, with over 110 million broadband subscribers is still undergoing broadband subscriber growth in excess of 20% per annum despite already being the largest broadband internet market in the world.

Data in this report is the latest available at the time of preparation and may not be for the current year.

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