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Frost & Sullivan: North Asia Leads in Mobile Users, Revenues, Innovation
Sep 11, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Frost & Sullivan announced in a report that North Asia is light years ahead of the other Asian sub-regions in terms of mobile service revenues, thanks to countries like Japan which is expected to launch LTE (Long Term Evolution) in 2010 and along with South Korea, are two nations with the highest ARPU (average revenue per user) levels in Asia-Pacific.
In its report, "North Asia Wireless Outlook," the research group noted that the mobile subscriber base in the region - covering five North Asian nations including Japan - grew 10.1 percent year-on-year to reach 878.1 million users in 2008, accounting for nearly half of the total mobile subscribers in Asia-Pacific (18 countries) last year.
Despite such heavyweights and market saturation in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, juggernaut China ensures that mobile subscriber growth will most certainly continue. The North Asian region is expected to be home to over one billion mobile users by the end of 2009, representing a year-on-year subscriber growth of 15.3 percent; China alone will house 80 percent of that billion.
Forecasted to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 7.7 percent (2008-2014), North Asia's mobile subscribers are expected to surpass 1.37 billion users by end-2014.
Mobile services in North Asia are expected to gross an estimated US$183 billion in revenues this year, and are forecasted to reach billings of US$229.8 billion by end-2014, at a CAGR of 5.2 percent (2008-2014).
Hong Kong's mobile penetration rate stood at 133.2 percent in 2008, Japan at 86.5 percent, South Korea at 94 percent, and Taiwan at 110.9 percent. Mobile operators in China however are expected to bill close to US$85.7 billion by the end of 2009, and close the year 2014 at revenues of US$132.6 billion - for a CAGR of 13 percent (2008-2014) - and 1.15 billion subscribers.
In 2008, China had 687.2 million subscribers, accounting for 78.2 percent of North Asia's mobile users; Japan - 110.4 million (12.6 percent); South Korea - 45.6 million (5.2 percent); Taiwan - 25.6 million (2.9 percent); and Hong Kong - 9.3 million (1.1 percent).
The 2009 North Asia Wireless Outlook study is part of the Mobile & Wireless Growth Partnership Service program, which also includes research in the following markets: WiMAX, mobile content, mobile advertising, mobile broadband, smartphones, mobile CAPEX (capital expenditure), 3G-embedded devices and LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks. All research services included in subscriptions provide detailed market opportunities and industry trends that have been evaluated following interviews with market participants.
Report Information:
http://www.frost.com/
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