Melani Warod

DIGITIMES Research delivers the latest research report to point out, Japan and South Korea develop the technical leading country of wide-band network for the whole world, it is that the cloth of global fiber optic net builds the ripest country too at present. According to the statistics of FTTH Council, South Korean the intersection of optic fibre and the intersection of house and households of infiltration rate reach 37%, occupy global the first, after Hong Kong Japan, rank the third, optic fibre house households of infiltration rate 24%.

Under promoting in Japan and South Korean government in a more cost-effective manner and the telecommunication owner popularizes actively, according to Point Topic statistics, the whole wide-band number of users (include DSL, Cable Modem and FTTx) in Japan and South Korea up to the end of 2008 In order to occupy Asian-Pacific area (excluding the continent) The first 2 high countries, there are 29,680,000 and 15,260,000 separately; And DSL number of users is also classified with Australia as the first 3 high, takes Asian-Pacific area (excluding the continent) separately 39.5% and 12.6% of the total number of users.

Japan's wide band employs the service: Turn to the image to develop from the pronunciation

The distribution situation on the wide-band market of Japan, see with the circuit provider at present, NTT east Japan and NTT west Japan are a maximum owner, the city especially totalled in some two of optic fibre accounting for rate has already been up to 73.5%. And with ISP (Internet Service Provider) It is look to come,it is by OCN, Yahoo!rank forefront BB and au one net. OCN occupies one in optic fibre, ranks the second in ADSL, it is Japan ISP tap at present; And Yahoo! It is very outstanding that BB behaves in ADSL, its accounting for rate of market is 38.1%, lead and rank the second of the OCN by a wide margin and have the amount of time 2.

Wide-band number of users in Asian-Pacific area 2008 is distributed

In terms of wide-band market of Japan, already trend that has been future of demand which users promoted to frequency bandwidth. Deploy, build several under being already ripe in wide band, Japanese user serve, rely on day by day too to application at wide-band network, have employed from the pronunciation gradually, has turned to the applied demand of the image gradually. The obvious example is owner's popularization of the visual telephone of Japan's telecommunications, the communication that makes on the image, has already become the life trend of Japanese users gradually.

It is also like this in other application, such as the house of OCN is controlled and served, transmitted and not only can be applied to the house which looks after the Japanese old man and moved about through the image, also apply to controlling it on the activity that the pet lives. In addition, " au BOX " put out in KDDI China, can also find the reliance of the audio-visual service of Japan deeper and deeper, has already developed out the multimedia device that can view and admire the film, music whenever and wherever possible, come because to the demand for the audio-visual service portability in conformity with users.

The South Korean wide band employs the service: IPTV content is plural and abundant

It is served and mostly offered by main telecommunication owner frequently that South Korea is wide, such as KT group, SK group and LG group, all manage ISP business, and former another large-scale telecommunication owner HanaroTelecom of South Korea under its group of telecommunication, have already been purchased by SKT at the end of 2007. Count to the end of 2008, the intersection of South Korea and respectively for KT (the intersection of city and 43.4% of accounting for etc.) 3 big the intersection of telecommunication and owner before the wide-band market , SK Broadband (22.9%) And LG Powercom (14.1%) . Among them, because KT is taken as the traditional leading operator (Incumbent) ,Not changing into privatization in 2002, so was still a wide-band market maximum owner in South Korea at present.

But the wide-band market of South Korea, it is under the circumstances that the telecommunication owner popularizes in a more cost-effective manner, form high wide-band the intersection of market and trend that serve, until the intersection of telecommunication and owner develop actively, pluralism abundant even more for IPTV to employ, television assume the air of become the intersection of family and terminal device of networking already, and is no longer limited to PC.

In addition, the intersection of South Korean and IPTV serve, cooperate with other expanding serve also, such as application of photo album on the line, and carry on the communication and SMS news in brief on the line through the television. Go still one step further, South Korean telecommunication owner turns the television into information center of home too in the application of IPTV, utilize STB accepting to surf the Net, can connect to traffic information of the Search engine,etc., in addition, user can also go on commercial activity, do shopping on the line, the intersection of TV and bank,etc. on the line with STB.