Mobile and Wireless Communications

Biometric identification and authentication is well positioned to complement and potentially replace existing traditional verification processes such as those using pins and passwords, security questions, and even personal identity verification. The role of biometrics is becoming more important now that the industry is heading towards becoming mobi...

Indonesia’s mobile penetration grew from 115.1% in 2011 to 150.0% in 2016. By 2021, mobile penetration is expected to reach 153.4%, with 420.9 million mobile subscribers. The market is predominantly prepaid with 98.3% of subscribers utilizing prepaid services from Indonesian mobile service providers. Prepaid ARPU is low and is expected to remain ...

Malaysian mobile market is a matured one and has experienced a strong change in the consumption behaviour over the last five years. The market is primarily dominated by the three leading service providers and has a long list of MVNOs. Over the past couple of years, the country’s subscriber base remained stable around 44 million and mobile penetra...

Nepal mobile market has experienced a strong growth over the past few years and the two leading service providers together control almost 95% of the total subscriber base. Over the past couple of years, the country's mobile penetration rapidly increased from under 71% in 2013 to 110% in 2016, surpassing the total population of 29 million. By 2021, ...

The IoT market continued to witness more new launches, investments and ecosystem partnership news than announcements related to new customer wins/deployment news in 2016. Almost a third of such news were related to a product or service or solution or organisation launch. The next largest group of news, around 20%, is about investment flows, be th...

Telecom operators are one of the most important participants in the Internet of Things (IoT) value chain, as they are evolving themselves to become 'key enablers' by acting as an interface between enterprise customers and IoT hardware, software, and platform vendors. As connectivity remains a low-value component of the IoT value chain, telecom oper...

The mobile POS (mPOS) market has evolved since its start in 2009 and is now able to adequately address the needs of merchants of all sizes across the Asia-Pacific. Technology is the enabler that is making it cost effective and affordable for small merchants as well as tailored and purpose-built for large merchants. While it may not completely repla...

27 Sep 2016  |  Asia Pacific  |  Market Research

Asia-Pacific Mobile Payments

Spearheading Cashless Societies

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Countries within Asia-Pacific are trying to go cashless; mobile payment has been identified as an ideal solution to spearhead the transformation from cash-based to cashless solutions. Asia-Pacific is expected to continue to lead the world in mobile payment developments with smartphone penetration being the highest in the world. With standardization...