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. By end-2008, the broadband penetration had been lifted to over 20%. The proportion of the population who are Internet users has exceeded 65%. Some 80% of all homes in Taiwan own PCs and around 70% of homes have Internet connections. The market has also been rapidly moving away from dial-up access to broadband and 68% 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 convergence in the form of television services.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Broadband market
  
  • 2.1 Overview
    
  • 2.2 Government initiatives for broadband
    
• 3. Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
  
• 4. Cable modems
  
• 5. Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)
  
• 6. Video-on-Demand (VoD)
  
• 7. Internet market
  
  • 7.1 Overview
    
  • 7.2 Internet Hosts
    
  • 7.3 ISP market
    
• 8. WiMAX
  
• 9. E-Services
  
  • 9.1 Overview
    
  • 9.2 E-Commerce
    
    • 9.2.1 Online music
      
  • 9.3 E-Government
    
• 10. Convergence
  
• 11. Digital TV
  
  • 11.1 Broadband TV
    
  • 11.2 Cable TV and Pay TV
    
• 12. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Broadband subscribers, penetration & proportion of Internet subscribers – 2000 - 2008
• Table 2 – Broadband subscribers and households - December 2008
• Table 3 – Broadband subscribers and annual change by access – December 2008
• Table 4 – DSL subscribers – 2001 – 2008
• Table 5 – Chunghwa Telecom broadband subscribers by technology and market share – 2001 - 2007
• Table 6 – Chunghwa Telecom HiNet subscriber and ARPU – 2004 - 2006
• Table 7 – Chunghwa Telecom broadband charges for ADSL and FTTx – January 2009
• Table 8 – Breakdown of xDSL and Cable download speeds – December 2007
• Table 9 – Internet users and subscribers – 1995 - 2008
• Table 10 – Internet subscribers by access method – December 2007
• Table 11 – International Internet bandwidth capacity – 2001 - 2007
• Table 12 – Number of Internet hosts in Taiwan – 2001 - 2008
• Table 13 – Pay TV subscribers by platform – 2002 - 2007
• Table 14 – Cable TV operator revenue and investment in select worldwide countries – 2004 - 2006

• Exhibit 1 – Taiwan 2.5GHz spectrum winners