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EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920<br />

Work Package: 6<br />

Type of document: Report<br />

Date: 20.12.2007<br />

File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0<br />

Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 253 / 356<br />

The present and future role of PLC as a broadband option in Asia is described in the<br />

following paragraphs.<br />

5.5.2 PLC Developments in Asia – Historical Perspective<br />

5.5.2.1 Introduction<br />

As mentioned above, it is difficult to speak about Asia as a single or coherent region when<br />

addressing such issues as digital divide, energy supply, telecommunications penetration,<br />

and of course Powerline Communications. The immensely large Asian region consists of<br />

countries at opposite ends of the scale as regards the availability of resources and the<br />

applicable environment for the development of PLC applications.<br />

Since the early 2000s Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and Korea were the first to<br />

venture seriously into PLC communications – building pilot LV networks to overcome the last<br />

mile. But already then, some electricity companies (e.g. KEPCO) were interested to identify<br />

electricity network-near applications. This was evident by a continuous presence of<br />

electricity companies and service providers from Asia at international PLC conferences held<br />

in Europe in the 2002-2006 timeframe.<br />

Major Powerline activity has been limited primarily to the developed Asian countries, i.e. to<br />

those regions and countries which already lead Asia in modern technology, and<br />

telecommunications; the most prominent being Korea, Japan, Singapore, and China.<br />

Additionally, significant PLC projects had been started in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia<br />

and in Taiwan. In most of these countries, both the DSL and the wireless communication<br />

technologies have been the most successful competitive broadband technologies, leaving<br />

PLC for niche applications in the access area, for the in-house LAN market or for remote and<br />

undersupplied areas.<br />

Therefore the description of PLC activity in this section of the report will focus on known<br />

projects taking place in some of the previously mentioned developed countries.

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