WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 255 / 356
positive, both speed (800-2.25Mb/s) and reliability were acceptable. An alternative
technology to DSL and cable had established itself.
In the meantime also, Singapore Telecom was established, creating an “energy-telecom
bundle” with the following assets:
• local knowledge of networking
• island-wide underground electricity infrastructure
• right of way
• infrastructure rollout organisation & management
Powerline communications then went into the second phase, with commercial high rise,
residential high rise, landed residential and for industrial buildings connections. The Phase II
trial was to involve 500 participants, across the island. The telecom switching gear was
provided by Foundry Networks, a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and
service provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions. Singapore Power
worked closely with IDA (Info-Communications Development Authority) of Singapore, which
issued a formal document > 1 on 1 August 2003. It lay down the basic guidelines for operating frequencies
and co-existence with other equipment.
Whereas Singapore Power saw PLC as a business diversification tool into
telecommunications, Indonesia, with a telephone penetration of 3%, recognized the PLC
technology as a means to improve the telephone infrastructure in the country, for its
population of 207.4 million Indonesia’s Telecommunications Act No 36/1999 took effect in
September 2000, redefining the telecom sector, and paving the way for open market
competition. The Indonesian Power Utility company Persero had more than 28 million
customers, a potential market for a PLC-based telephony system. AS far as Internet users
were concerned, there were 3 million users in Indonesia, with a gain of 300,000 alone in
2001.
1 IDA RS PLC Issue 1.8.2003