World Broadband Market

The 10th edition of this report provides analysis of the overriding trends and chief developments in broadband markets around the globe. It examines the main forces driving the market' s growth and transformation - equipment momentum, technological advancements and increasing bitrates, expanding service offerings, growing competition, regulatory debates - and offers profiles of the globe' s leading broadband access providers (strategy, services, financial results).

The Atlas takes a look at underlying market trends and supplies volume forecasts up to 2011, by geographical zone and by type of access (ADSL, cable modem and others, including very high-speed broadband). From a geographical standpoint, the report delivers data and detailed estimates for the globe' s main regions (Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific), along with analyses of the largest national markets.

The World Broadband Access Market in brief

• Key broadband access market trends
• Access providers' strategic positioning
• Technological developments
• New service offerings

Forecasts up to 2011

• By geographical zone and by country
• By type of access:
  • ADSL
  • Cable modem
  • Other (notably FTTx)

Key questions

• Rate of broadband access growth in the world' s largest regions
• Most widely-used technologies; developments taking place for each.
• What technological advancements can we expect to see between now and 2011? Growing use of ADSL2+? True advent of FTTx?
• What are the central regulatory issues being debated?
• How is competition changing? What are the different positionings and strategic growth paths being taken by access providers?
• What is the actual status of new service rollouts (VoIP, IPTV, including HDTV, portals.....) and what impact are they likely to have on access markets?

• “The world broadband access market” report is made up of several sections, which are drafted and updated throughout the year.
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Broadband access market definitions and segmentation

This report provides analyses of fixed broadband access markets, broken down by broad category:

• ADSL connections (up to ADSL2+);
• cable modem connections;
• other forms of broadband access, including very high-speed (FTTx, including VDSL)
• Statistics for these different types of access are collected by country for the most part (cf. geographical coverage), with details provided on vendors for the most significant markets: as concerns ADSL, sub-totals make it possible to isolate connections sold directly to end users by the incumbent, those bought from the incumbent wholesale and resold by third-party providers, and unbundled connections (fully unbundled and shared access lines)

The report also provides forecasts up to 2012 for these countries and for the globe' s major regions.

Detailed statistics are provided for 11 countries in all:

• 7 European countries: Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Sweden;
• 3 Asian countries: China, South Korea and Japan;
• The United States

The regional breakdown covers 5 major zones:

North America:

Canada, the United States.

Europe:

European Union: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom Other countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldavia, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland,Turkey, Ukraine.

Asia-Pacific

Industrialised Asia: Australia, China Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan.

Developing Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, continental China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos,