Global - Broadband and FttH - Key Statistics and Insights

Synopsis

The Asia-Pacific region has the highest fibre broadband penetration in the world, followed by North America. Asia-Pacific represents nearly 85% of worldwide fibre broadband subscribers and is led by the key markets of China, Japan and South Korea. The European broadband market has seen a considerable evolution during the past two years or so, epitomised by the migration to higher-data services and from copper-based networks to fibre.

This report provides a valuable overview of the global broadband market including key global broadband statistics. The report also provides a more detailed look at the emergence of fibre-based access technologies (FTTx) including a high-level look at the various business drivers, future opportunities and business models. The report identifies the leading FttH markets and provides key FttH statistics and forecasts. The report is designed to provide current observations which may assist investors, analysts and industry participants in making investment and business decisions.

Latest developments:

In 2012 there are around 2.3 billion households with Internet access and around 35% of these will have access to fixed broadband; With more and more video applications being used in ever increasing broader markets; there is a widespread interest in upgrading to higher-speed services; VDSL shipments rose in Q1 2011 on the back of a rising number of network upgrades occurring in Europe.

1. Synopsis
2. The need for high-speed networks
- 2.1 Broadband drives the digital economy
3. FttH emerges as a serious broadband platform
- 3.1 FttH and stimulus money
4. Global fixed broadband market summary
- 4.1 Broadband subscribers by access technology
- 4.2 Broadband pricing
- 4.3 Broadband speed
  - 4.3.1 Brief insight into broadband speed in Hong Kong
- 4.4 Broadband revenue
5. Leading markets
- 5.1 Asia
  - 5.1.1 Can we afford to not move to FttH?
- 5.2 USA
- 5.3 Europe
6. Market insights
7. Trans-sector approach to broadband infrastructure
- 7.1 Clear warnings for Fibre to the Home (FttH) investments
- 7.2 Why wireless broadband is not an alternative to FttH
- 7.3 The submarine cable conundrum
8. Backgrounder - Fibre-based access
- 8.1 Early trials – brief overview
- 8.2 Massive changes in network management required
- 8.3 Low hanging FttH fruit
- 8.4 Consumer benefits to low-cost fibre
- 8.5 Enterprises not driving FttH
9. Fibre-to-the-X: the economics of last-mile fibre
- 9.1 Introducing fibre ‘x’
- 9.2 Getting fibre closer to the home
- 9.3 Incremental versus sunk costs
- 9.4 Utilization is key
- 9.5 Topology versus technology
- 9.6 Fibre options
- 9.7 Unbundling
- 9.8 Upgrading the architecture
- 9.9 Path dependencies
- 9.10 Example of FttH deployment costs
10. Regulating fibre: a global issue
- 10.1 Regulating copper networks – a lesson
- 10.2 Networks under strain
- 10.3 The stronger case for fibre
11. FttH drivers
- 11.1 National economy drivers
- 11.2 Social drivers
- 11.3 Entertainment drivers
- 11.4 Business drivers
- 11.5 Network capacity drivers
- 11.6 No E-Government without fibre
- 11.7 ‘Go with the flow’ strategies
12. FttH business models
- 12.1 Vertically Integrated model
- 12.2 Open network model
- 12.3 Structural separation a must for FttH
13. Conclusion: Cable TV networks – like the fast steam trains?
14. Related reports

Table 1 – Worldwide Internet users – 2000 - 2012
Table 2 – Worldwide fixed broadband subscribers and annual change – 2005 - 2012
Table 3 – Regional - Share of broadband subscribers – Q1 2011
Table 4 – Worldwide - Top 10 countries by fixed broadband subscribers – 2008 - 2010
Table 5 – OECD - Top 10 countries by fixed broadband subscribers – June 2010
Table 6 – Broadband access among Internet households – selected countries – 2004 - 2010
Table 7 – Worldwide DSL subscribers – 2000 - 2012
Table 8 – Worldwide - broadband market share by access technology – 2009; 2010
Table 9 – OECD - Broadband market share by access technology – 2008; Mid 2010
Table 10 – Worldwide – Number of FTTx subscribers – comparison of analysts’ estimates
Table 11 – USA; Europe; Asia-Pacific – number of FTTx subscribers – 2007 – mid 2010
Table 12 – Worldwide – number of countries with an FttH market penetration of more than 1%
Table 13 – Worldwide - Top 10 markets with FTTx penetration > 1% – 2007; 2009
Table 14 – OECD - Countries with cheapest broadband price per Mb/s – Top 5 - September 2010
Table 15 – OECD - Historical countries with cheapest broadband price per Mb/s – Top 5 – June 2007; October 2008
Table 16 – OECD - Countries with most expensive broadband price per Mb/s – Top 5 - September 2010
Table 17 – Worldwide - Average entry level monthly broadband price by technology – Mid 2008 - 2010
Table 18 – Average broadband connection speed by top 10 countries – Q1 2011
Table 19 – Worldwide - Average overall broadband and upload speeds – 2008 - 2010
Table 20 –Worldwide – Total broadband services revenue –2008 - 2011
Table 21 – Leading countries market share of fixed broadband services revenue – 2009
Table 22 – Europe - Broadband lines, penetration and new lines per day – 2004 - 2010
Table 23 – AT&T’s backbone capacity statistics – 2009

Chart 1 – Worldwide Internet users – 2000 - 2012
Chart 2 – Worldwide fixed broadband subscribers - 2005 – 2012
Chart 3 – Worldwide DSL subscribers - 2000 – 2012
Chart 4 – Europe - Share of fixed-line broadband offerings by technology – Jun 2010

Exhibit 1 – Faster broadband speeds offer more than just fast Internet
Exhibit 2 – Why the average home will soon require 50Mb/s
Exhibit 3 – Explanation: optical fibre
Exhibit 4 – Examples of countries with planned ICT infrastructure investment – 2009
Exhibit 5 – Broadband – infrastructure blueprint
Exhibit 6 – Examples of estimated costs of fibre deployment in the USA