Number of Internet Users Rose to 111 Million in China at Year End 2005 - Asia Telecom Market, 2005-2006.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34566) has announced the addition of Asia Telecom Market, 2005-2006 to their offering The Asian telecom market is of large scale and great investment potential. The good foundation of customers will be an impetus to the recovery of the telecommunication industry. Four markets are developing fastest in Asia. They are China, Indonesia, India and Vietnam. Meanwhile, in the markets of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and Singapore, handsets have a high market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" . Besides, multimedia and value-added services are widely applied in these regions. By the end of 2005, the number of internet users rose to 111 million in China, only behind America whose figure is 197.8 million. The following are Japan, India, Germany, UK and South Korea in sequence. The internet is rapidly popularized in some populous Asian countries such as China, India and Indonesia, driving the number of internet users to exceed one billion for the first time. In the future, internet consumers to be newly added will be mostly from populous countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia, etc. Development of 3G market in Asia The turning point of mobile markets from 2G to 3G brings along an opportunity for newly entered handset manufacturers to change its market positioning. It is on account of the transition from simulated signal handset to digital signal that Nokia surpassed Motorola. Asian handset manufacturers are all making great efforts in the course of 3G transition. The increasingly prominent role of Asian equipment manufacturers is the most noticeable. With regard to 3G terminal, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are the leading manufacturers in markets of Asia and North America. Currently, they are trying their best to expand the market shares of 3G mobile phones in Europe. Concerning 3G network equipment in China, Huawei and ZTE ZTE Zalaegerszegi Torna Egylet (Hungarian sports club) are exploring overseas markets so as to pave the way for the development of Chinese 3G market and to change the layout of 3G equipment markets. As far as the operation of 3G network is concerned, Japanese manufacturers and South Korean ones all made a great success whether in WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) A 3G high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that use the TDMA or GSM technology worldwide, including AT&T (formerly Cingular) and T-Mobile in the U.S. or CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. 2000. The only uncertainty rests with Chinese TD-SCDMA TD-SCDMA Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access whose development in China will have an effect on the layout of 3G markets worldwide in the future. Development trend of Asian telecom industry The year 2005 is another consecutive year for the transition of telecommunication industry in Asian region. The notion of concentration-style network is gradually acknowledged among telecom industry, enterprises and consumer markets. 3G services are more and more available in 2005. However, there is still a long way to go for 3G to become the mainstream. It is estimated that the telecommunication industry in Asian markets will be developing fastest with an annual average rate of 9.3 percent in the next five years. In the past decade, the Chinese telecommunication industry has maintained a rapid growth rate of more than 20% annually. It is forecast that the number of telephone subscribers will exceed 820 million in China by the end of 2006. Of which, handset subscribers will be more than 440 million, while fixed telephone customers will surpass 380 million. In markets of western developed countries, the popularity of telephone subscribers have been over 80 percent. The compound annual growth rate of wireless communication equipment markets in China will get to 5.9 percent during the year 2004-2009. Total output value of this market will increase from 42.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2005 to 44.6 billion U.S dollars in 2006. Besides, the compound annual growth rate of cable communication equipment markets will be 4 percent and the total output value will rise to US$15.7 billion in 2006 from US$15.2 billion in 2005. Namely, the market size of wireless equipment is three times that of cable equipment. Indonesia is one of the countries in which the telecom industry will develop fastest worldwide. Indonesia has a population of 240 million at present. By the end of 2005, the number of handset subscribers was 38 million. A significant growth will occur since mobile penetration is not up to 16% in Indonesia. According to the official statistics, Indonesia needs to import telecom equipment valued at 500- 600 million U.S. dollars annually. The total investment of various telecom enterprises will reach approximately one billion U.S. dollars per year in which 70 percent or 80 percent will be used for purchasing raw materials and equipment. The telecom market is extraordinarily prosperous in Vietnam with a population of 82 million. In the past few years, its telecom industry is developing at a speed of 10% annually and the growth rate of its GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. also gets to as high as 7% per year. Even some research and investigations show that the Vietnamese index of consumer confidence tops the highest among Asian countries, above 90 marks. Concerning communication fittings, mobile communication equipment, telecom equipment, IP telephone program/equipment and network equipment will develop rapidly in the future. The Government and several foreign-funded groups will invest huge capital into the construction of local infrastructure. The telecom industry is developing the fastest among all sectors in India. Meanwhile, GSM mobile communication is in the leading position in the development of telecom market. In the next few years, handset subscribers will be expanding dramatically with an expected growth rate of more than 50 percent. The figure will add up to 200 million in 2008, accounting for 75 percent of all telecom subscribers. In the past five years, the number of GSM handset users increases ten times. In virtue of through the force of; by authority of. See also: Virtue great market potentials, it will take a shorter time than expected for consumers to exceed 100 million. The Pakistani telecom industry is progressing slowly in a long period of time. However, with the deepening of its reform and innovation, the Pakistani telecom industry is recovering its vitality. At present, the rate of telephone popularization pop·u·lar·ize tr.v. pop·u·lar·ized, pop·u·lar·iz·ing, pop·u·lar·iz·es 1. To make popular: A famous dancer popularized the new hairstyle. 2. per million people is only 2.9%. Besides, the popularization rate of mobile communication is 5% which means huge market potentials in Pakistan. Currently, the Pakistani government attaches great importance to the future development of its telecommunication industry and adopts effective measures to gradually reduce control on markets. Based on the data by the Statistical Bureau of Uzbekistan, its telecom industry is the most rapid sector in recent three years. The revenue from internet connection service, data transmission service and mobile communication operation is increasing significantly. The application of new technologies turned the telecom industry in Uzbekistan into a profitable one. Saudi Arabia is the country whose telecom industry is developing fastest with the largest scale and huge development potentials in the Middle East. It is estimated that the total output value of handset markets will get to 7.9 billion U.S. dollars in 2007. The handset market size by 2005 reached 26 billion rial (about US$6.9 billion). In the next two decades, Saudi Arabia will bend itself to constructing an informational society and a cyber economy. Companies Mentioned:- - China Mobile - China Unicom - China Telecom - China Netcom - Chunghwa Telecom - Taiwan Mobile - Fareastone - SK Telecom - KTF KTF Korea Telecom Freetel KTF Keep The Faith KTF Keeping the Faith KTF Kauai Test Facility (Sandia National Laboratories, US) KTF Kemisk-Tekniska Leverantörförbundet (Swedish union of chemical technical suppliers) - LG Telecom - NTT DoCoMo - Vodafone - KDDI - VNPT VNPT Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Corporation - Mobifone - VinaPhone - AIS - TelecomAsia - CAT - TOT - TT&T Public - Telekom Malaysia (TM) - SingTel - PT Telkomsel - Philippine Global Communication Ltd - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Group - Pakistan Telecom Co., Ltd.(PTCL PTCL Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited PTCL Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma PTCL Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory PTCL Pakistan Tobacco Company Limited ) - National Telecom Corp.(NTC NTC Notice NTC National Training Center NTC National Telecommunications Commission NTC National Transport Commission (Australia) NTC Negative Temperature Coefficient NTC Naval Training Center ) - Special Communication Organization (SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. ) - BSNL BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited BSNL Biosecurity and Nanoscience Laboratory - Reliance Infoco - GrameenPhone - Teletalk Bangladesh Limited - SHEBA - Pacific Bangladesh Telecom - TMIB TMIB The Man in Black (Ritchie Blackmore, rock guitarist) TMIB To Make It Balance (POM entry use to show a balanced USAF POM) TMIB Transportation Management Information Base TMIB Temporal Management Information Base - Nepal Telecom - Uzbek Telecom - TK Mobile - Kazakhstan Telecom - TOO GSM-Kazakhstan - Roshan - TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. - MTC-Vodafone - STC STC Supplemental Type Certificate (FAA) STC Society for Technical Communication STC Subject to Change STC Surf the Channel (website) STC Sound Transmission Class STC Singapore Turf Club - PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. - TELEYEMEN - NAWRAS TELECOM - Etisalat - Batelco - MCT See Microsoft certification. Vodafone Bahrain For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34566 |
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