South Korea - Broadband Market - Overview & Statistics

Synopsis

South Korea has the world’s highest number of broadband services per capita. By early 2009, over 30% of the population and over 90% of households, were broadband subscribers. Hanaro’s acquisition of Korea Thrunet in early 2005 positioned it to better compete against KT. Competition remained strong and mobile operator SK Telecom acquired a controlling stake in Hanaro in 2008, renaming the company SK Broadband. Powercom’s debut of broadband services in late 2005 has 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.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Broadband market
  
  • 2.1 Overview
    
  • 2.2 Growth drivers
    
  • 2.3 Statistical overview
    
• 3. Major broadband ISPs
  
  • 3.1 Broadband ISP market leaders
    
  • 3.2 KT / KorNet
    
  • 3.3 SK Broadband (Hanaro Telecom / HanaNet)
    
    • 3.3.1 Acquisitions by Hanaro
      
  • 3.4 Dacom / BoraNet
    
    • 3.4.1 LG Powercom
      
• 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 Wireless broadband
    
    • 4.7.1 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) / Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
      
    • 4.7.2 Broadband Wireless Local Loop (B-WLL)
      
    • 4.7.3 Wireless Broadband (WiBro)
      
    • 4.7.4 WiMAX
      
    • 4.7.5 Broadband via satellite
      
• 5. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Broadband Internet subscriber growth and penetration – 1998 - 2009
• Table 2 – Broadband subscribers and annual growth by access type – September 2008
• Table 3 – Broadband subscribers and households - October 2008
• Table 4 – Broadband Internet subscriber numbers by system – 1998 - 2009
• Table 5 – Broadband subscribers and market share – major providers – June 2008
• Table 6 – Broadband subscribers by access type – January 2009
• Table 7 – Cable modem subscribers – 2000 – 2009
• Table 8 – Cable modem (HFC) subscribers by service provider – January 2009
• Table 9 – DSL subscribers – 1999 - 2008
• Table 10 – DSL subscribers by service provider – January 2009
• Table 11 – A-LAN subscribers by service provider – January 2009
• Table 12 – FttH subscribers by service provider – January 2009

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