Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: July 2009
Product Code: R464-1415Description Korea is one of the most advanced broadband markets in the world, with fibre-based subscriptions constituting 44.5% of total broadband subscriptions as of March 2009. Almost all of the Korean operators have focused on infrastructure-based competition.
Table of Contents - Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- Technology and network
- Legacy network technology and service types
- Proposed FTTx technology and approach
- FTTx (consumer) products available
- Wholesale services
- Limited wholesale market
- Competition
- Competitive landscape
- Key players
- Korea Telecom (KT)
- SK Broadband (formerly Hanaro Telecom)
- LG Powercomm
- System operators
- Government involvement
- Industrial policy
- Regulatory situation
- Local loop unbundling (LLU)
- Wholesale broadband services
- Korean hybrid approach to regulation of fibre
- VoIP
- IPTV: commercialising and linear retransmission
- Bundling regulation
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Developing technologies for Korea’s BcN
- Table 2: KT’s FTTH deployment performance for 2008
- Table 3: Basic retail plans of SK Broadband FTTx service (W, May 2009)
- Table 4: Retail plans of KT FTTx service (W, May 2009)
- Table 5: Discount rates for KT bundled services (May 2009)
- Table 6: South Korea: broadband and FTTx market share by operator (March 2009)
- Table 7: UBcN target
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Proportion of KT’s broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 2: Access network strategy: SFUs
- Figure 3: Access network strategy: MDUs and small businesses
- Figure 4: KT NGN roadmap
- Figure 5: Proportion of SK Broadband’s broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 6: SK Broadband FTTx scenarios: total network
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