Taiwan - Broadband Market - Overview & Statistics

Synopsis

Taiwan has rapidly become a significant player in broadband Internet access. The government has been especially busy promoting the benefits of broadband and has committed the country to being on a par with the US by 2010. Going into 2010, the total broadband penetration had been lifted to over 35% considering both fixed line and wireless. The proportion of the population who are Internet users has exceeded 65%. Some 80% of all homes in Taiwan own PCs and around 75% of homes have Internet connections. The market has also been rapidly moving away from dial-up access to broadband and over 80% of all Internet connections are broadband. There are a large number of ISPs (more than 180) in Taiwan, although a handful of big ones continue to dominate the market. This report covers the broadband market in Taiwan, including an overview of the operators, services provided, WiMAX and television services.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Overview of Taiwan’s broadband market
  
• 3. Broadband statistics
  
  • 3.1 Fixed-line broadband market development
    
  • 3.2 Fixed-line broadband market by access type
    
  • 3.3 Fixed-line and mobile broadband market development
    
• 4. Government initiatives for broadband and m-Taiwan
  
• 5. Broadband technologies
  
  • 5.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
    
  • 5.2 Cable modems
    
  • 5.3 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
    
  • 5.4 Chunghwa telecom representative statistics
    
• 6. Overview of the Internet market
  
  • 6.1 ISP market
    
• 7. Internet statistics
  
  • 7.1 Internet users and subscribers
    
  • 7.2 Internet bandwidth capacity
    
  • 7.3 Internet hosts
    
• 8. WiMAX
  
  • 8.1 WiMAX in Taiwan – background
    
  • 8.2 WiMAX in Taiwan - licensing
    
  • 8.3 WiMAX in Taiwan – network rollouts
    
    • 8.3.1 Far EasTone
      
    • 8.3.2 WiMAX Telecom
      
    • 8.3.3 Chunghwa Telecom
      
    • 8.3.4 Tatung Telecom
      
    • 8.3.5 Global Mobile
      
    • 8.3.6 Fitel
      
  • 8.4 WiMAX roaming
    
• 9. E-services and M-services
  
  • 9.1 e-Taiwan
    
  • 9.2 E-commerce
    
    • 9.2.1 Online music
      
    • 9.2.2 E-books
      
  • 9.3 E-government
    
  • 9.4 M-commerce
    
• 10. Digital TV and Cable TV
  
  • 10.1 Digital TV
    
  • 10.2 Cable TV
    
• 11. Forecasting methodology
  
• 12. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Fixed-line broadband subscribers, penetration and proportion of Internet subscribers – 2000–2009
• Table 2 – Broadband subscribers and households - September 2009
• Table 3 – Broadband subscribers and annual change by access – September 2009
• Table 4 – Broadband subscribers by access technology – 2001 - 2008
• Table 5 – Detail of fixed-line and wireless broadband subscribers– 2003 - 2009
• Table 6 – Total fixed-line and wireless broadband subscribers and penetration – 2003 - 2020
• Table 7 – DSL subscribers – 2001 - 2009
• Table 8 – Breakdown of xDSL and Cable download speeds – December 2007
• Table 9 – Chunghwa Telecom broadband subscribers and market share – 2001 - 2008
• Table 10 – Chunghwa Telecom HiNet subscriber and ARPU – 2004 - 2008
• Table 11 – Chunghwa Telecom broadband charges for ADSL and FttX January 2009
• Table 12 – Internet users and subscribers – 1995 - 2020
• Table 13 – Internet subscribers by access method – December 2007
• Table 14 – International Internet bandwidth capacity – 2001 - 2010
• Table 15 – Number of Internet hosts in Taiwan – 2001 - 2008
• Table 16 – Taiwan 2.5GHz spectrum winners
• Table 17 – Cable TV operator revenues and investment in select countries – 2004 - 2006
• Table 18 – Pay TV subscribers by platform – 2002 - 2007