- 12 January 2006 -

Asia growing fastest in FTTX

Five major countries in Asia (Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea) comprise the fastest developing regional broadband market, including the adoption of advanced FTTX in the residential broadband market: both Fiber to the Premise/Home (FTTP/FTTH) and Fiber to the Neighborhood/Curb/Building (FTTN/FTTC/FTTB), says market research firm In-Stat in its report Asia/Pacific Embraces Residential FTTx Services (#IN0502394ANT).

Asia as a whole, and in particular the growing China and Australian markets, provide huge growth potential for equipment and service players to claim a slice of the growing FTTX pie, it says. “Foreign investors may not need to build up networks or provide services on their own,” says In-Stat analyst Victor Liu. “Instead, content developers and value-added services providers may have better revenue prospects if they work closely with broadband service providers who lead the adoption of FTTX in those markets.”
The report found the following:

- In China, FTTC/N+ LAN is proving to be a cost-effective way to introduce broadband to homes.

- Japan has built up high-speed network infrastructures extending fiber all the way to the home to deliver a wide array of voice, data and multimedia applications including increasingly popular VoIP service.

- In South Korea, service providers have found that online gaming, Video-On-Demand, and e-commerce are moneymaking applications that are well suited to the increased bandwidth of FTTX.

The report covers the Fiber to the Premise/Home (FTTP/FTTH) and Fiber to the Neighborhood /Curb/ Building (FTTN/FTTC/FTTB) markets in the five Asian nations that have the most activity: Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea. It includes profiles of broadband providers and their FTTX strategies, and forecasts of FTTX subscribers and service revenue for each country and the region as a whole. The report price is $2495.

Web: http://www.in-stat.com