Dan allegedly said:
> Taiwan broadband penetration reaches 35%
> Jill Lai, Taipei; Chinmei Sung, DigiTimes.com [Monday 18 August 2003]
>
> One in every three households in Taiwan has a broadband Internet
> connection, according to an estimate from the Taiwan-based Market
> Intelligence Center (MIC).
>
> A total of 2.45 million households have signed up for broadband
> Internet service as of the end of the first half of this year,
> representing 35.5% of 6.9 million households in Taiwan. XDSL is the
> most preferred choice, with 2.2 million households. Cable modem
> connections totaled 250,000 households, MIC added.
>
> On the other hand, about 120,000 subscribers discontinued 56K modem
> connections during the second quarter of this year, ending the first
> half with 4.68 million dial-up Internet subscribers.
>
> Taiwan’s total population is over 23 million. The research center
> expects that broadband penetration in Taiwan will reach 40% by
> year-end.
If Taiwan is like Korea, then the regulatory environment has mandated cheap,
ubiquitous broadband.
http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=cac...hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"Although the report identifies several factors that have led to
near-universal broadband adoption in South Korea, including the nation's
geography, where a few, dense cities have most of the population, the "take
home" lesson comes from South Korea's regulator, which supported
competition while also subsidizing broadband buildouts. The report notes,
"the Bell companies say they have no incentive to invest capital in
broadband networks they would have to share. The [U.S.] government could
overcome this objection by supporting the cost of further infrastructure
investments, while requiring sharing of networks."
In Korea, the government telco has got broadband to about 85%
penetration....to the point where ISDN is being withdrawn as a service. The
only country in the Asia Pacific region to withdraw it.
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