3GWeek - Asia’s Mobile News

Research and Markets, Dublin based research company, released their report about a comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in the telecommunications and digital media markets in Malaysia and the Philippines. What categories are the covered? They include:

• Key statistics
• Market and industry overviews
• Regulatory environment
• Major players (fixed and mobile)
• Infrastructure
• Mobile voice and data market
• Internet (incl VoIP and IPTV)
• Broadband

Here, I will only discuss the categories related with mobile sector. So, what’s the result?

Malaysia

• Coming in 2008, 90% of 27 million have mobile phone services; expected to reach 25 million subscribers this year
• Fixed line penetration only counts 16%
• 1 million subscribers of new generation technology (3G) in the late 2007
• Second largest mobile penetration in South East Asia, behind Singapore
• 10 billion SMS sent during 2006
• Growth rate goes lower-as the penetration reaches the peak-at 16% in the start of 2008

Philippines

• Fixed-line teledensity stays less than 5%
• Penetration reaches 60% (55 million subscribers) in 2008
• Growth from 2008 to 2010 is expected to reach 15 million new subscribers
• Telecom sector contributes to over 10% of national GDP

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