By 2012 There Will be Close to 500 Million Broadband Subscribers Worldwide.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c60239) has announced the addition of 2007 Global Broadband - Broadband is Essential Infrastructure to their offering.

This annual report offers a wealth of information on the worldwide fixed broadband industry, and includes analyses, statistics, trends and forecasts. The report also provides a market overview of the various broadband technologies, including DSL, cable modem, fibre, BPL and broadband satellite. Regional information is also included, providing a comprehensive overview of how broadband is progressing around the world.

Subjects covered include:

-The current broadband market;

-Worldwide and regional broadband statistics;

-Broadband infrastructure analysis;

-The DSL market;

-The cable modem market;

-FTTx market;

-Broadband over Powerline (BPL) market;

-Broadband satellite;

-Regional information.

Key highlights:

-There will be close to 500 million broadband subscribers worldwide in 2012.

-Overall telecom industry spending grew by more than 12% in 2006, driven by the demand for broadband and high-speed services.

-DSL is the most common broadband access technology worldwide, capturing over 65% of the market.

-VDSL and VDSL2 will provide telcos with the ability to not only offer telephony and high-speed Internet access, but also High Definition TV (HDTV), VoIP and multiple and simultaneous video streams over the same copper pair.

-However there are still a number of issues hindering the uptake of this technology. For more information, see chapter 5, page 45.

-The cable modem sector lags behind DSL with only around 22% share of the market, however VoIP technology has provided the sector with new opportunities; evidence of this coming from North America and Europe in particular.

-Worldwide cable telephony services revenue is expected to reach around $11 billion in 2007. For more information, see chapter 4.4, page 43.

-At the moment around 50% of Internet traffic is consumed by less than 5% of Internet users, however it is only a matter of time before the other 95% catch up. This will result in a wild growth of local infrastructure projects over the next five years.

-To compete with fixed broadband, it is essential for reliable high-speed wireless technologies to be developed. The competing technologies include the intermediate mobile standards like GPRS, emerging 3G standards, the fixed wireless technologies such as WiFi, WiMAX and a range of proprietary services operating in 3.4GHz band.

-Latin America is one of the world's fastest growing regions in terms of broadband uptake, with an annual growth rate of around 54% in 2006. However broadband penetration at the end of 2006 was only 2.5% - considerably less than the global average of 5.4%.

-The USA is one of only two countries in the OECD in which cable subscribers outnumber DSL subscribers. However DSL is expected to overtake cable in 2008, and the telcos' massive fibre deployments will vastly improve the speeds and bandwidth of the telcos broadband networks, allowing for new services such as IPTV. The response by cable may be DOCSIS 3.0, a relatively cost-competitive, easy-to-deploy 'wideband' answer to the telcos' fibre networks. For more regional information, see chapter 9, page 84.

Topics Covered

1. THE BROADBAND MARKET IN 2007

1.1 Analysis of the broadband market

1.2 Broadband is essential infrastructure

2. STATISTICAL OVERVIEW

2.1 Broadband statistics and forecasts

3. INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW

3.1 Broadband infrastructure trends & developments

4. CABLE MODEM INFRASTRUCTURE

4.1 Cable modems

4.2 DOCSIS

4.3 Regional overview - 2006 - 2007

4.4 Cable market statistics

5. XDSL INFRASTRUCTURE

5.1 Technical infrastructure

5.2 The DSL market

5.3 ADSL2/ADSL2+

5.4 Bonded DSL broadens broadband

5.5 FttH superior to ADSL+2

5.5.1 DSL TV

5.6 The VDSL market

5.7 Competition in the local loop

6. FTTX INFRASTRUCTURE

6.1 Global overview

6.2 FTTx market statistics

6.3 Regulating fibre: a global issue

6.4 FttH drivers

6.5 FttH business models

7. BPL INFRASTRUCTURE

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Overview

7.3 BPL SWOT analysis 

7.4 Selecting the right business model

7.5 Utilities as telcos

7.6 Third broadband network into the home

7.7 The market in 2007 - BPL the quiet achiever

7.8 Developments in 2007

7.9 The market in 2006

7.10 Forecasting BPL

7.11 Regional opportunities

7.12 Difficulty in developing a global standard

7.13 Developments from the vendors

8. BROADBAND SATELLITE

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Major players

8.3 Satellite broadband

8.4 SIA - Overview of the market

8.5 IPStar - a brief case study

8.6 2006 statistics and forecasts

8.7 Geostationary, LEO, MEO and HEO satellites

8.8 Direct Broadcasting Services

8.9 Co-ordination and regulation

9. REGIONAL OVERVIEW

9.1 North America

9.2 Latin America

9.3 Europe

9.4 Africa/Middle East

9.5 Asia

9.6 Pacific region

10. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

Table and Exhibits

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