Asia: Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Digital Economy (35 countries)

• Publication date: December 2011

Report Description Covering 35 Asian countries, BuddeComm’s research provides statistics, analyses and forecasts on the telecommunications, mobile, broadband, Internet as well as digital media and digital economy markets. An annual subscription provides unlimited download access to individual country reports as well as regional overviews. Topics include • Key statistics; • Market and industry overviews; •...

Report Description
Covering 35 Asian countries, BuddeComm’s research provides statistics, analyses and forecasts on the telecommunications, mobile, broadband, Internet as well as digital media and digital economy markets. An annual subscription provides unlimited download access to individual country reports as well as regional overviews.

Topics include
• Key statistics;
• Market and industry overviews;
• Overview of major operators (mobile and fixed);
• Regulatory environment;
• Infrastructure;
• Mobile market;
• Internet market;
• Telecom market forecasts for selected countries

This research covers 35 Asian countries including –
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, East Timor (Timor Leste), Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.


Executive Summary
Mobile markets in Asia continue to grow but with difficult economic conditions and some markets saturating it is not surprising that the growth rate has slowed somewhat over the last year or so. A total of more than 2.6 billion mobile subscribers and an average annual growth of over 25% (excluding the most highly penetrated markets) have combined to see the Asia region have the fastest growing telecommunications markets in the world.
Overall regional penetration has reached an estimated 65% during 2011, suggesting that there is still more room for subscriber growth across the region. More than 12 countries in Asia had mobile penetration levels in excess of 100% going into 2011. Not surprisingly, the global financial crisis had caused some caution in mobile markets across the region for a while, mainly during 2009; after a pause the momentum has quickly begun to pick up again.
In the developing economies, quick and easy mobile uptake has for a long time been the preferred, and often the only, option for subscribers, given the low levels of fixed-line deployments. In order to prevent ARPU slide in these markets, operators are offering value added mobile services such as mobile banking, remittance payments and mobile health services that take advantage of lack of access by the poor to social infrastructure such as banks and hospitals.
The developed markets in the region, such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, have positioned themselves well to exploit mobile data and broadband wireless opportunities and lead the rest of the region into the next generation of mobile applications. In fact, through the leadership of these markets Asia makes a strong claim to be setting the global benchmark when it comes to the development of broadband internet.
Market competition has driven handset prices and airtime tariffs downward, thus opening up mobile services to wider adoption. The rate of adoption of wireless internet has started to rise with the overall increase in mobile penetration together with networks being progressively upgraded to next generation platforms. While 3G licensing and the ongoing launch of 3G services in Asia has certainly been promoting the growth of wireless data services, 3G has also been providing opportunities for both wireless access and content providers in domestic markets. In South Asia, in particular, more people own a mobile phone than a PC, giving the delivery of mobile data services huge potential there.
The growth of mobile internet across Asia is being largely driven by competition in the market place and has been boosted by the advent of 3G+ services. Market competition has been driving handset prices and airtime tariffs downward, thus opening up mobile services to wider adoption. The rate of adoption of wireless internet is expected to rise with the overall increase in mobile penetration and as networks are upgraded. LTE is also rolling out in the more mature markets such as Japan which already has close to 100% 3G penetration.
The 3G licensing process and the progressive launch of 3G services in Asia is already well advanced, with a few countries presenting themselves as anomalies in an otherwise progressive market. India and Thailand have both been slow to open up their respective 3G markets. By 2010 India was finally taking some real and significant steps on the road to 3G, but Thailand continues to struggle on this front and early resolution of the regulatory problems causing these delays in Thailand was not likely. In fact, the general consensus is that Thailand will not see progress on 3G until 2012.
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 energetic expansion of broadband has been more of a phenomenon in the developed economies, with narrowband access continuing to be the norm in most of the poorer developing countries of the region. This is changing, however.
With DSL dominating the world market, Asia has become the leading region with about 35% of the global DSL subscribers. More recently, we have seen FttX as an alternative platform for broadband access in Asia. In the leading technology markets of Japan and South Korea and Taiwan in 2011, FttX has been displacing other forms of high speed internet access. Asia accounts for around 85% of global FttX subscriptions and China dominates the lead with over 30 million subscribers.
While there has been some activity in the providing of WiMAX networks, the real test will be the advent of mobile WiMAX. The initial roll-out of mobile WiMAX in Asia has begun but it has been a cautious start. The technology continues to be strongly supported at this stage of its development. The big question is whether it will become a mass market platform or simply satisfy a niche market need. This remained an open question coming into 2011. In any event, in their various forms wireless broadband systems are becoming a key feature of the broadband access landscape across Asia.
Over a number of decades the economies of Asia have progressively built substantial fixed-line national networks followed by national mobile networks. More recently the focus of infrastructure building has shifted to the upgrading of domestic telecom networks to Next Generation Networks (NGNs). This process is seeing large scale investment by Asia’s leading telecoms markets in new-generation IP-based telecommunications networks. Those countries that have government backing for NGN roll-out are the ones that are setting the pace. Even some of the lesser-developed markets are pushing hard on this front.
NGNs are critical for the development of the digital economy. The development across Asia is being strongly promoted. The growth, however, is mostly focused on the developed markets and has been heavily dependent on the local support being provided by the governments in those markets, with Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan leading the way.

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Broadband Industry in South Korea

Reports included in this subscription
Afghanistan - Telecoms, Mobile, Internet and Forecasts
Armenia - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Azerbaijan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
Bangladesh - Internet Market and Forecasts
Bangladesh - Key Statistics, Telecom Market Overview and Forecasts
Bangladesh - Mobile Market Overview, Forecasts, and Broadcasting
Bhutan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Brunei Darussalam - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband
Cambodia - Telecoms, Mobile, Internet and Forecasts
China - Broadband Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
China - Digital Economy and Forecasts
China - Digital Economy and Forecasts
China - Key Statistics, Telecom Market, Regulatory Overview and Forecasts
China - Major Telecom Operators - Overview and Statistics
China - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
China - Telecommunications Infrastructure and Forecasts
East Timor (Timor Leste) - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Georgia - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
Hong Kong - Broadband - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
Hong Kong - Key Statistics, Forecasts, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews
Hong Kong - Major Telecom Players
Hong Kong - Mobile Communications - Market Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
India - Broadband Market, Internet Services and Forecasts
India - Broadcasting and Digital Media
India - Key Statistics, Telecommunications Market and Regulatory Overview
India - Major Telecommunications Operators
India - Mobile Communications - Market Overview, Technologies and Forecasts
India - Telecommunications Infrastructure and Forecasts
Indonesia - Broadcasting
Indonesia - Fixed Network Operators
Indonesia - Internet, Broadband Services and Forecasts
Indonesia - Key Statistics, Telecommunications Market and Regulatory Overview
Indonesia - Mobile Communications - Major Operators
Indonesia - Mobile Communications - Market Overview and Forecasts
Indonesia - Telecommunications Infrastructure and Forecasts
Insights into Asia Pacific Telcos - Key Statistics
Insights into Asia Pacific Telcos - Key Statistics
Japan - Broadband Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
Japan - Key Statistics, Telecom Market, Regulatory Overview and Forecasts
Japan - Major Operators - Overview and Statistics
Japan - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
Japan - Telecommunications Infrastructure
Kazakhstan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
Kyrgyzstan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Laos - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
Macau - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
Malaysia - Broadband Market and Forecasts
Malaysia - Key Statistics, Telecoms Market Overview, Infrastructure and Forecasts
Malaysia - Major Telecommunications Operators
Malaysia - Mobile Communications and Broadcasting Services
Maldives - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband
Mongolia - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Myanmar (Burma) - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Nepal - Telecoms, Mobile, Internet and Forecasts
North Korea - Telecoms Market Overview and Statistics
Pakistan - Broadband and the Internet Market
Pakistan - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews, and Fixed Network Operators
Pakistan - Mobile Communications and Broadcasting
Pakistan - Telecommunications Infrastructure
Pakistan - Telecoms Market Trends and Forecasts
Philippines - Broadband Market and Forecasts
Philippines - Broadcasting
Philippines - Key Statistics, Telecommunications Market and Fixed Network Operators
Philippines - Mobile Communications - Major Operators
Philippines - Mobile Communications - Market Overview and Forecasts
Philippines - Telecommunications Infrastructure and Forecasts
Singapore - Broadband Market and Broadcasting Services
Singapore - Key Statistics, Telecommunications Market, Regulatory and Infrastructure Overview
Singapore - Major Telecom Operators
Singapore - Mobile Communications - Market Overview
South Korea - Broadband Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
South Korea - Digital Economy 2011
South Korea - Infrastructure and Broadcasting
South Korea - Key Statistics, Infrastructure, Regulatory Overview and Forecasts
South Korea - Major Telecom Operators - Overview and Statistics
South Korea - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
Sri Lanka - Fixed Network Operators
Sri Lanka - Internet and the Broadband Market
Sri Lanka - Key Statistics, Telecom Market Overview and Forecasts
Sri Lanka - Mobile Communications and Broadcasting
Taiwan - Broadband Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
Taiwan - Key Statistics, Telecom Market, Regulatory Overview and Forecasts
Taiwan - Major Telecom Operators - Overview and Statistics
Taiwan - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
Tajikistan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Thailand - Internet, Broadband Services, Broadcasting and Forecasts
Thailand - Key Statistics, Telecommunications Market, Regulatory and Infrastructure Overview
Thailand - Major Telecom Operators
Thailand - Mobile Communications - Market Overview and Forecasts
Turkmenistan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet
Uzbekistan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
Vietnam - Broadband Market and Forecasts
Vietnam - Key Statistics, Telecommunications Market and Regulatory Overview, and Broadcasting
Vietnam - Mobile Communications, Mobile Operators, and Forecasts
Vietnam - Telecommunications Infrastructure, Forecasts and Major Fixed-Line Players

Broadband in South Korea

South Korea Number Of Broadband Internet Subscribers (`000)

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2003 To 2017
By Business Monitor International
Source: World Bank (International Telecommunications Union (ITU)), BMI research

• Industries : Broadband
• Countries : South Korea

South Korea Number Of Broadband Internet Subscribers/100 Inhabitants, % Change Y-o-y

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2004 To 2017
By Business Monitor International
Source: World Bank (International Telecommunications Union (ITU)), BMI research

• Industries : Broadband
• Countries : South Korea

South Korea Number Of Broadband Internet Subscribers, % Change Y-o-y

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2004 To 2017
By Business Monitor International
Source: World Bank (International Telecommunications Union (ITU)), BMI research

• Industries : Broadband
• Countries : South Korea

South Korea Number Of Broadband Internet Subscribers/100 Inhabitants

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2003 To 2017
By Business Monitor International
Source: World Bank (International Telecommunications Union (ITU)), BMI research

• Industries : Broadband
• Countries : South Korea