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 the majority 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.

It has become well accepted that broadband offers enormous social benefits and in some cases becoming a human right. Broadband availability and speed are also strong drivers in an economy.

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.

Table of Contents

• 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 South Korea consistently a leader in broadband speeds
  • 4.4 Broadband revenue
• 5. Leading markets
  • 5.1 Asia
    • 5.1.1 Can we afford to not move to FttH?
  • 5.2 North America
    • 5.2.1 USA
    • 5.2.2 Canada
  • 5.3 Europe
• 6. Market insights
• 7. Trans-sector approach to broadband infrastructure
• 8. Mobile broadband: killer app for FttH
  • 8.1 The submarine cable conundrum
• 9. 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 - 2011
• Table 9 – OECD - Broadband market share by access technology – 2008; Mid 2010; Mid 2011
• Table 10 – Worldwide – Number of FTTx subscribers – comparison of analysts’ estimates
• Table 11 – USA; Europe; Asia-Pacific – number of FTTx subscribers – 2007 – mid 2011
• Table 12 – Worldwide – Examples of top markets with FTTx penetration > 1% – 2007; 2009; 2011
• Table 13 – OECD – Top 5 countries with most expensive broadband price per Mb/s – September 2010 - March 2012
• Table 14 – OECD – Top 5 countries with cheapest broadband price per Mb/s – March 2012
• Table 15 – Worldwide - Average entry level monthly broadband price by technology – Mid 2008 - 2010
• Table 16 – Average broadband connection speed by top 10 countries – Q1 2011; Q4 2011
• Table 17 – Worldwide - Average overall fixed broadband and upload speeds – 2008 - 2011
• Table 18 –Worldwide – Total broadband services revenue –2008; 2010; 2012; 2014; 2016
• Table 19 – Historical - Leading countries market share of fixed broadband services revenue – 2009
• Table 20 – Broadband lines, penetration and new lines per day – 2003 - 2011

• Chart 1 – Worldwide Internet users – 2000 - 2012
• Chart 2 – Worldwide fixed broadband subscribers - 2005 – 2012
• Chart 3 – Worldwide DSL subscribers - 2000 – 2012

• 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