Asia/Pacific

“This market is growing faster than any other communications market in the world, with Asia/Pacific already leading the world in the number of mobile phones and broadband subscribers.”
- Matthew Flanigan, TIA president

The region is home to:

• About half of the worldwide mobile phone, fixed-line users and broadband subscribers
• The world’s largest Mobile market (China)
• The world’s largest adoption of broadband connectivity (Korea)
• The world’s largest Mobile data markets (Japan and Korea)
• The fastest growing markets (China and India)
• The biggest share of Metro Ethernet equipment sales: more than half of world total
• The biggest share of carrier OSS spending: about half of world total

An ITU report found:

• The Asia Pacific market has become the global telecommunications epicenter.
• Asia Pacific is the world’s biggest telecom market, and not only leads the world in mobile phone use and installation of broadband services, but also in the development of advanced telecommunication technology
• Asia Pacific will continue to grow its economic lead in telecommunications,
• In a top-ten ranking of public telecommunication operators globally by profit margin, seven are Asian