2006 Broadband and Internet Vertical Market Report pack, contains over 550 pages of research and analysis on the Broadband and Internet markets in Asia.
This research covers 35 Asian countries, grouped by geographic regions (Central, North, South and South East) and takes an overall look at the various telecoms markets, together with a particular look at the broadband and Internet segments in each of the countries.
The markets covered include:
• Internet Infrastructure and Developments
• Internet policies, models and concepts
• Regional and International Networks
• Internet Market, VPNs and VoIP
• Vision for a National Policy, Government Policies
• Network Operators, Wholesalers and Retailers, Utilities Projects
• xDSL, HFC, MDS, Satellite, Cable Modems, Cable Telephony
• Wireless Broadband Broadband Internet is one of the fastest growing market segments in Asia.
In fact, the region has been leading the world.
However, broadband has remained a phenomenon limited to Asia’s developed economies, with dial-up narrowband access still being the norm in the developing countries of Asia.
Where the market is taking off, both Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and cable modem platforms have both proved popular, with DSL having a clear advantage.
DSL has been dominating the world market, with over 67% by early 2006.
And Asia has become the leading market in the world for DSL, with almost 40% of the worldwide broadband subscriber base and about 38% of the world’s DSL subscribers.
Asia is also the world’s largest regional Internet market, measured by users.
The number of Internet users in the region was estimated to have reached 375 million by mid-2006 out of a total global Internet user population estimated at 662 million.
Although the market is starting to change, Internet development in Asia has been dominated for a long time by Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.
China has joined this group.
The developing economies of the region have had considerably slower growth, having had to deal with high access costs, poor infrastructure and the slow pace of deregulation.
This in turn has limited the potential for achieving the social and economic benefits of a country being online.