Our markets

Each of the Asia Pacific and Middle East Africa regions comprise diverse markets: they often contrast with each other in terms of service availability, consumer affordability, and penetration rates.  These disparities reflect the broad range of gross domestic product per capita.  Furthermore, there are significant differences among countries relating to issues such as politics, legal framework, income distribution, economic trends, regulation, competition, technological developments, and industry structure.  These issues make generalizing about these regions all the more challenging.

Much like deregulation, market liberalization and privatization have affected much of the Asia Pacific region over the past ten years, the same trends are happening in the MENA today.  In the more advanced economies, deregulation and the introduction of competition fosters investment in infrastructure and the subsequent embrace of the most advanced technologies and services available by consumers and enterprises.  In the developing economies, privatization serves to attract external capital to develop the infrastructure and enables the launch of new services.