Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2006 Australia - Broadband Market - Speeding up DSL to their offering.

This report analyses broadband developments in Australia in 2005 and 2006. The broadband battles have moved on from the lack of availability of broadband services to the lack of true broadband (speeds of 2Mb+), competitive prices for such high speed services and new applications such as IPTV and VoIP over broadband. In the meantime penetration is on the rise and is set to continue to do so throughout 2006 and 2007. The government has made some good commitments towards high speed broadband including in regional areas, but the policies remain nebulous.

- Developments and Analysis - Statistical overview and forecast - Business Markets - Network Operators and Wholesalers - Infrastructure - Broadbanding Regional Australia - HFC, Cable Modems and Cable Telephony - FTTH Analyses and Developments - Home Networks - Convergence - Media Centres - Triple Play Models - Broadband TV

1. DEVELOPMENTS AND ANALYSIS 2006
1.1 Australia is catching up
1.2 Government broadband inventory
1.3 'Growing broke' with broadband
1.4 Telstra creating confusion in the broadband market
1.5 Broadband speed record
1.6 Metro blackspots fund

2. STATISTICAL OVERVIEW AND FORECAST
2.1 Household statistics
2.2 Australia's broadband ranking - mid-2006
2.3 The broadband market in numbers - 2006
2.4 Broadband competition
2.5 Market shares
2.6 Market statistics and forecasts 2005-2015
2.7 Other surveys

3. INFRASTRUCTURE
3.1 Analyses
3.2 Broadbanding regional Australia
3.3 ADSL
3.4 Cable modems
3.5 FttH

4. NETWORK OPERATORS AND WHOLESALERS
4.1 The broadband ISP market - mid-2006
4.2 The broadband industry
4.3 DSL Operators
4.4 HFC Networks
4.5 TransACT
4.6 AUSalliance 4.7 Wireless broadband operators
4.8 Electricity utilities
4.9 Consolidation

5. BROADBAND ECONOMY
5.1 Broadband a $70 billion industry in the making
5.2 How to develop the broadband economy
5.3 National Strategy
5.4 New partnerships models needed


6. BROADBANDING LOCAL COMMUNITIES
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Case studies - local broadbanding


7. DEMAND AGGREGATION
7.1 The business case for anchor tenants
7.2 Broadband brokers
7.3 Firstly - local social vision required
7.4 Council-led broadbanding Steering Committee
7.5 Working with telcos
7.6 Aggregation to be addressed within steering committee
7.7 Long-term contracts are killing the model
7.8 The key is passion, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit

8. BUSINESS MARKETS
8.1 Subscriber statistics
8.2 The business ISP market - mid-2006
8.3 Revenue statistics
8.4 Business market in 2006
8.5 Pacific Internet report
8.6 Business market statistics 2004

9. BROADBAND TV
9.1 Are you ready for the IPTV explosion?
9.2 Movies downloading
9.3 IPTV developments
9.4 Telstra's complex convergence strategy
9.5 Other players
9.6 Broadband HDTV

10. HOME NETWORKS
10.1 Statistics and forecasts
10.2 Home networking
10.3 W Home
10.4 Telstra gearing up to offer digital home gateway
10.5 HomePlug

11. WHOLESALE ACCESS NETWORK - INDUSTRY COOPERATION
11.1 Analysis of the EOI
11.2 Wholesale industry cooperation
11.3 Wholesale industry group
11.4 Progress report June 2006
11.5 Regional projects
11.6 Expressions of Interest (EOI)
11.7 Strategic infrastructure funding - backgrounder
11.8 Lessons learned from the past
11.9 Government direction is essential
11.10 Conclusions
11.11 Recommendations: how to proceed from here
11.12 Consortia

12. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

Companies Mentioned Include:
- AAPT - Amcom - Anytime - Commander - Crank TV - IPTV music channel - HFC Networks - iiNet - Internode - M2B World - Netspace - Nextep Broadband - Optus - People Telecom - PowerTel - Primus - Reeltime - ROO Media- Soul - VOD Pty Ltd

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