Telecom

The mobile telecoms market in Asia-Pacific consisted of 4.04 billion subscribers in 2017, and is expected to grow to reach 4.58 billion by 2021, with the CAGR (2017–2021) estimated at 3.1%. Across Asia-Pacific, increasing competition is placing further pressure on revenues and margins. YoY revenue growth and CAGR growth are at an all-time low, at...

The Chinese market for mobile payment offers not only market opportunities for solution providers intending to operate within the domestic market but also learning points for global mobile payment solution providers. China is a unique case study that can showcase to the world that cashless societies are becoming increasingly possible. Already, 40% ...

Voice and Messaging Services have evolved over the past few decades. In recent years, Over-the-Top (OTT) participants such as WeChat, WhatsApp, and LINE have introduced rich multimedia messaging services that SMS could not provide. These OTT applications have also granted users the ability to make international voice calls at a low cost or even for...

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...

Data Centers industry is more than 20 years old and over the years data center has become complex to operate. It has become quite challenging for data center operators to run their data center efficiently. The whole Asia Pacific is getting on the bandwagon of getting digitized and local governments have introduced many initiatives that would accele...

Cambodia mobile penetration grew from 92.1% in 2011 to 133.5% in 2016. During the forecast period, mobile penetration is expected to grow marginally to reach 140.5%; and the mobile subscribers will grow to 24.2 million. The tracker provides details of the Cambodia mobile service providers and offers detailed historical & forecast data for the perio...

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, ...