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South Korea has the world’s highest number of broadband services per capita. By early 2008, around 30% of the population, or 90% of households, were broadband subscribers. Hanaro’s acquisition of Korea Thrunet in early 2005 positioned it to better compete against KT. Powercom’s debut of broadband services in late 2005 started to put additional pressure on other providers. In this report we describe South Korea’s broadband market, including cable modem, DSL, VDSL, Fibre-to-the-Home, Broadband over Powerline, WLAN, WiFi, Broadband Wireless Local Loop, broadband via satellite and the much anticipated WiBro.

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Broadband market
  
  • 2.1 Overview
    
  • 2.2 Growth drivers
    
    • 2.2.1 Housing situation
      
    • 2.2.2 Price
      
    • 2.2.3 Broadband content
      
    • 2.2.4 Government support
      
  • 2.3 Statistical overview
    
• 3. Major broadband ISPs
  
  • 3.1 Broadband ISP market leaders
    
  • 3.2 KT / KorNet
    
  • 3.3 Hanaro Telecom / HanaNet
    
    • 3.3.1 Acquisitions by Hanaro
      
  • 3.4 Korea Thrunet
    
  • 3.5 Dacom / BoraNet
    
    • 3.5.1 Powercom
      
  • 3.6 Onse
    
    • 3.6.1 Shinbiro
      
• 4. Broadband services
  
  • 4.1 Overview
    
  • 4.2 Cable modem
    
  • 4.3 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
    
  • 4.4 Very high data rate DSL (VDSL)
    
  • 4.5 Apartment LAN (A-LAN)
    
  • 4.6 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
    
    • 4.6.1 Analysis – Asia bucking the FttH trend
      
  • 4.7 Broadband over Powerline (BPL) / Powerline Communications (PLC)
    
  • 4.8 Wireless broadband
    
    • 4.8.1 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) / Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
      
    • 4.8.2 Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (WIPI)
      
    • 4.8.3 Broadband Wireless Local Loop (B-WLL)
      
    • 4.8.4 Wireless Broadband (WiBro)
      
    • 4.8.5 WiMAX
      
    • 4.8.6 Broadband via satellite
      
    • 4.8.7 Ultra Wideband (UWB) Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)
      
• 5. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Broadband Internet subscriber growth and penetration – 1998 - 2008
• Table 2 – Broadband subscribers and annual growth by access type – 2007
• Table 3 – Broadband subscribers and households - February 2008
• Table 4 – Broadband Internet subscriber numbers by system – 1998 - 2007
• Table 5 – Broadband users by access type (wired and/or wireless) - 2006
• Table 6 – Broadband subscribers and market share – major providers – April 2007
• Table 7 – Broadband subscribers by access type – February 2008
• Table 8 – Cable modem subscribers – 2000 - 2007
• Table 9 – Cable modem (HFC) subscribers by service provider – March 2007
• Table 10 – DSL subscribers – 1999 - 2007
• Table 11 – DSL subscribers by service provider – March 2007
• Table 12 – A-LAN subscribers by service provider – March 2007
• Table 13 – FttH subscribers by service provider – March 2007

• Exhibit 1 – Confusion surrounding DSL statistics in South Korea
• Exhibit 2 – Estimated B-WLL frequencies, bandwidth and applications
• Exhibit 3 – LMCS network operators

Related Documents

• 2007 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overview
• South Korea - Broadband - Market Overview
• South Korea - Broadband - Broadband Services
• 2007 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in North and South Korea
• 2007 North Asian - Broadband and Internet Markets
• 2007 Asia - Telecoms Fixed-line statistics (tables only)
• 2007 Asia - Mobile Communications Statistics (tables only)
• 2007 Asia - Internet, Broadband and Convergence Statistics (tables only)