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 nearly 85% 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, Fibre-to-the-Home, 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
    
    • 2.1.1 Broadband statistics
      
  • 2.2 Growth drivers
    
  • 2.3 Broadband convergence Network (BcN)
    
• 3. Major broadband ISPs
  
  • 3.1 Broadband ISP market leaders
    
• 4. Broadband services
  
  • 4.1 Overview
    
  • 4.2 Cable modem
    
  • 4.3 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
    
  • 4.4 Apartment LAN (A-LAN)
    
  • 4.5 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
    
    • 4.5.1 Analysis – Asia bucking the FttH trend
      
  • 4.6 Wireless broadband
    
    • 4.6.1 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) / Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
      
    • 4.6.2 Broadband Wireless Local Loop (B-WLL)
      
    • 4.6.3 Wireless Broadband (WiBro)
      
    • 4.6.4 WiMAX
      
    • 4.6.5 Broadband via satellite
      
    • 4.6.6 Wireless mesh networks
      
• 5. Broadband charges
  
• 6. Internet
  
  • 6.1 IPv6
    
  • 6.2 Inter usage patterns
    
  • 6.3 Wireless Internet
    
  • 6.4 Internet search engines
    
• 7. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
  
  • 7.1 Market overview
    
• 8. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Broadband Internet subscriber growth and penetration rate – 1998 - 2009
• Table 2 – Broadband subscribers and annual growth by access type – March 2009
• Table 3 – Broadband subscribers and households – March 2009
• Table 4 – Broadband Internet subscriber numbers by system – 1998 - 2009
• Table 5 – Broadband market share by operator – September 2008
• Table 6 – BcN implementation goals in households/subscribers – 2005; 2007; 2010
• Table 7 – Broadband subscribers and market share – major providers – March 2009
• Table 8 – Broadband subscribers by access type – March 2009
• Table 9 – Cable modem subscribers – 2000 - 2009
• Table 10 – Cable modem (HFC) subscribers by service provider – March 2009
• Table 11 – DSL subscribers – 1999 - 2009
• Table 12 – DSL subscribers by service provider – March 2009
• Table 13 – A-LAN subscribers by service provider – March 2009
• Table 14 – FttH subscribers by service provider – March 2009
• Table 15 – South Korea FttH / FttB subscribers – 2005 - 2011
• Table 16 – Wireless Internet subscribers by service provider – June 2008
• Table 17 – KT’s WiBro subscribers – 2006 - 2008
• Table 18 – Number of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses – 1997 - 2009
• Table 19 – Internet usage rates – September 2008
• Table 20 – Purpose of using the Internet – September 2008
• Table 21 – Internet search engines market share – January 2009
• Table 22 – South Korea VoIP subscribers by operator and market share – February 2008

• Exhibit 1 – Confusion surrounding DSL statistics in South Korea
• Exhibit 2 – Estimated B-WLL frequencies, bandwidth and applications in South Korea
• Exhibit 3 – LMCS network operators in South Korea
• Exhibit 4 – Representative charges per service in Seoul – 2008