DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/81b79d/south_korea_tele) has announced the addition of the "South Korea - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts" report to their offering.
South Korea is a country leading in technology use. The report covers trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, internet, broadband, digital TV and IPTV. Subjects include:
- Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
- Facts, figures and statistics;
- Industry and regulatory issues;
- Infrastructure;
- Major players, revenues, subscribers, ARPU;
- Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
- Mobile voice and data markets;
- Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, WiBro);
- Convergence and digital media;
- Smart Grids and Smart cities;
- Forecasts to 2016 in fixed-line, mobile, internet and broadband subscribers.
Market highlights:
- In 2011, fibre technology accounted for 55% of all broadband subscribers in South Korea and 81`% of households had internet connectivity. The country had the seventh largest broadband subscriber base in the world at 17.4 million subscribers.
- Government spending of US$2 billion in education over five years to 2016 was approved to drive a full transition from textbooks to e-books.
- Mobile penetration increased to over 105%; LTE was launched and LTE-Advanced testing started.
- Increased investment in Wi-Fi and femtocells to reduce pressure on the core mobile networks.
- A Smart Grid pilot was underway on Jeju Island with plans for a nationwide Smart Grid by 2030.
- Green Economy initiatives were driving investments in Smart Cities.
- South Korea ranked 4th in the world as IPTV subscriptions took-off.
- The country ranked 1st globally for the Government Broadband Index 2011.
Increased share of the ICT industry contribution to GDP as the government intervened on tariffs in a bid to fight inflation
For those needing high level strategic analysis and objective analysis on Korea, this report is essential reading and gives further information on:
- The end of an exclusivity period for the iPhone with smartphone users topping 10 million in 2011 and an 11-fold jump in mobile data traffic over a one year period.
- potential introduction of a fourth mobile licensee and the introduction of MVNOs in 2011
- The New Songdo City Development planned to be a future Korean Smart City.
- The Korean government's Smart Work initiative that aims to have 30% of public employees work from home or nearby smart-work centres by 2015 with smartphones, laptops and other mobile devices.
- A trial broadcasting service of 3D DMB scheduled for 2011.
- SK Telecom's first operator-based mobile apps store with plans to take it global by 2011.
- WiBro subscribers passing the 500,000 mark after investments of over KRW 2,000 billion.
- Government aims to become one of the top 10 aerospace powers in the world by 2015 which is backed by investments of over KRW 2.5 trillion into 2011.
- the country's goal to capture 10% of the global cloud services market by 2014 and to halve the cost of operating the public sector's ICT infrastructure
Data in this report is the latest available at the time of preparation and may not be for the current year.
To view the reports full table of contents and for more information, please visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/81b79d/south_korea_tele