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World Internet Access Market

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDATE
Published: September 2003
Product Code: R221-128
Description
Access markets in 6 geographic zones and 9 major countries, and the leading ISPs’ strategies

The internet access market in 2002 and forecasts up to 2007

  • regional analysis: Africa-Middle East, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, South America
  • close-up on: Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, the UK, the US, South Korea, Japan

Access providers’ strategies

  • international companies’ strategies: AOL, Korea Telecom, MSN, Nifty, Terra Lycos, Tiscali, T-Online, Wanadoo
  • national and international development strategies
  • positioning with respect to new technical solutions Sbroadband content offers

The market’s challenges

  • current development initiatives and projects in the information society
  • new services and broadband in the context of the markets’ maturity

Table of Contents
1 Markets and challenges


A comparative analysis of global markets
- public policies
- infrastructures
- market development: web user growth and major trends by region
The main challenges facing the sector
- internet management
- emerging technologies: Wi-Fi, power lines…
- the broadband dynamic
- consolidation moves in the industry
- strategies employed by access providers to attain profitability
Forecasts through 2007, by major geographic zone and for the global market
- web user growth
- penetration growth rates


2 Regional analyses
• Africa/Middle East • Asia/Pacific
• Central and Eastern Europe • Latin America
• Western Europe and Scandinavia • North America


For each zone analysed:
• Initiatives supporting the internet
- history
- liberalization of the telecommunications sector
- regulation: regulatory bodies in the various countries in the zone and regulatory measures regarding offers and content
- international projects
• The internet access market
- access players
- web user growth
- broadband deployment
- the development of mobile internet
- other access technologies
- rates
- offers in terms of content and applications
• Infrastructure development
- exchanges
- national and international links


3 Detailed analysis by country
• Germany • Spain • USA • Italy • Sweden • Japan • France • UK • South Korea


• Basic indicators
• Key events 2002 - 2003
• Internet management and regulation
- national regulator
- internet regulation: regulation governing offers, content, personal data...
- internet management bodies
• National and international backbone infrastructure
- exchanges
- academic network
- main national and international backbone players
• Access players
- breakdown of major players’ market shares
- target markets and technologies offered
- major players
• Access market and forecasts through 2007
- general market data: number of servers, number of web users, broadband penetration among population
- development of internet access in the country: dial-up access, broadband access, other means of access


4 Major ISPs*
• T-Online • Tiscali • Wanadoo • Terra Lycos • AOL • MSN • Nifty • Korea Telecom • SBC


For each ISP analysed:


• key data: core business, number of subscribers, main shareholders
• history
• financial situation: turnover growth, share of various business activities
• customers: total number of subscribers and share of broadband subscribers
• offer:
- national and international access offers
- rates
- offer diversification: portals, e-commerce, directories…
• international expansion
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