China Internet Market Statistics, 2001-2010

The Chinese Internet Services market was worth around $19.8 billion at the end of 2006, with 82 million internet connections making up 22% of households in the country.

We anticipate continued strong growth in the overall size of the market, driven by take-up of broadband connections (from 41 million in 2006 to 79 million in 2010) as these services become more affordable to segments beyond the traditional core customers of businesses and high net worth individuals. Broadband ARPU is expected to increase marginally, offsetting greater household consumption of bandwidth with the increased competitive pricing and bundling of services by service providers. Take-up of IPTV services is expected to continue, albeit slowly, as consumers migrate to faster broadband speeds.

This report provides comprehensive five year historical and five year forecast market sizing data across the residential Chinese Internet Services Market, consisting of:

• Households
• PC households
• Total internet connections
• Total broadband connections
• Total DSL connections, split by:
  • 0-2Mbit/s
  • 2-10Mbit/s
  • 10+ Mbit/s
• Total cable modem connections
• Dial-up connections
• IPTV households
• Fixed internet penetration
• PC household penetration
• Broadband penetration of PC households
• Mobile internet connections
• Broadband access revenues
• Dial-up access revenues

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Our market reports are based on robust, tried and tested, research methodologies. Historical market data is sourced largely from regulatory and company sources, where available. In cases where historical information is unavailable, we compile market assumptions and test these with industry professionals and experts. All our forecasts are sense checked both from a bottom-up and top-down perspective.

All variables are clearly defined. This report is available in Microsoft Excel format.