Malaysia - Broadband Market and Forecasts

Synopsis

Malaysia continues to heavily promote itself as an Information Technology hub in the Asia region. Whilst there had been a good response at a corporate level, for some time the wider community was not really embracing technology. In relative terms, there had been a surprisingly low interest in broadband internet. The national broadband penetration was around 8% of the population coming into 2011. This was despite the government having launched a National Broadband Plan which had targeted a 15% penetration by 2010. One bright spots has been WiFi, as the service providers start to roll out their ‘hotspot’ services. With the government issuing some WiMAX licences, a highly competitive wireless broadband market has been developing as the mobile operators increase the capability of their offerings. Another major push towards wider broadband adoption has been prompted by Telekom Malaysia’s roll-out of its fibre-based High-Speed Broadband network. This report looks at the extent to which high-speed Internet access is developing in the country.

On the back of the broadband boom, and especially the high wireless broadband take up, the government was able to report in January 2011 that Malaysia’s broadband penetration rate had reached 55.6% surpassing the national target of 50%.

Companies covered in this report include: Intel Malaysia; TMNet; Telekom Malaysia; Celcom Axiata; Jaring; Packet One Networks; REDtone; Asiaspace; YTL-E; Time DotCom; Shin Satellite

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Broadband market
  • 2.1 Overview
    • 2.1.1 National Broadband Plan (NBP)
    • 2.1.2 Background to broadband development
    • 2.1.3 Bandwidth capacity consortium
  • 2.2 Broadband and Internet statistics
  • 2.3 High-Speed Broadband (HSBB) network
    • 2.3.1 Background
    • 2.3.2 Commercial launch and operation
  • 2.4 The development of Internet in Malaysia
    • 2.4.1 Overview
    • 2.4.2 Background
    • 2.4.3 Malaysian Internet Exchange (MIX)
    • 2.4.4 Forecasts – broadband internet services – 2015; 2020
    • 2.4.5 Government control
  • 2.5 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
  • 2.6 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
  • 2.7 Wireless broadband
    • 2.7.1 Background development
    • 2.7.2 WiMAX: 2.3GHz licences
    • 2.7.3 WiMAX: other developments
    • 2.7.4 WiMAX operators
  • 2.8 Broadband Powerline (BPL)
  • 2.9 Internet via satellite
  • 2.10 Notes on scenario forecasts
• 3. Related reports

• Table 1 – NBP broadband penetration targets – 2007 - 2010
• Table 2 – Broadband subscribers – 2002 - 2012
• Table 3 – Total broadband subscribers and household penetration – 2009 - 2011
• Table 4 – Broadband subscribers by access type – March 2011
• Table 5 – Fixed broadband subscribers and households – March 2011
• Table 6 – Internet users – 1995 - 2012
• Table 7 – Internet subscribers – 1995 - 2012
• Table 8 – Dial-up Internet subscribers – 1995 - 2009
• Table 9 – Total international Internet bandwidth – 2001 - 2010
• Table 10 – Forecast broadband internet subscribers – 2015; 2020
• Table 11 – DSL subscribers – 2001 - 2010
• Table 12 – Wireless hotspots and hotspot subscribers – 2005 – 2011
• Table 13 – Packet One WiMAX subscribers – 2009 - 2011