Asian telecom mkt holds vast potential for new techs

BANGALORE, INDIA: Asia’s telecom market is with huge potential and rapid development, while its mobile phone prevalence ratio in Asia is far lower than Europe and America, leaving vast room for the new technologies to grow like 3G.

India is the second-largest telecom user base in the world after China and ahead of the US. India is adding 14-15 million telephone connections every month and the total number of telephone connections reached 429.72 million at the end of March 2009. There is a stupendous growth in the number of telecom companies in India over the last ten years.

This is according to Research and Markets' latest report, 'Asia Telecom Industry Report, 2008-2009'.

In addition, the consumers in China calls more for high-rate broadband than Europe and America, but the broadband prevalence ratio is low as well. Now, the broadband construction is under the way, and both cable broadband and wireless broadband are popular among the users.

CDMA has developed rapidly in Asia, and as of the end of 2008, CDMA users in Asia had accounted for 52.5 percent in the world’s total.

In Asia, the Internet access mode has changed into broadband from dial-up, and the number of its users has topped in the world. Meanwhile, the broadband access technology has become increasingly mature and complicated, and the developed countries have adopted FTTH, and developed economies in Asia have also behaved well in the next generation NGN deposition.

The report covers telecom market research of key Asian countries, telecom industry development strategy & investment, and key operators. Its research fields involve fixed telephone, mobile telecom, and broadband Internet. In addition, it has mentioned 28 key Asian countries like South Korea, Japan, India, Singapore, Viet Nam, Uzbekistan, and Saudi Arabia.