Index....3
Fixed Voice Market....5
Fixed Broadband and Internet Market....6
Market forecasts....9
Mobile Communications....11
Mobile Voice Markets....12
Major Market Snapshots....13
- China....13
- Hong Kong....13
- India....13
- Japan....13
- Indonesia....14
- Vietnam....14
Mobile data services in Asia - Surging data traffic sees acceleration of off-load strategies....16
Wireless broadband in Asia....18
The road to closing the digital gap and embracing FttX....19
Mobile Operators....21
Telecommunications Infrastructure....23
Key developments in infrastructure - 2008 - 2009....24
Country Overviews....25
Bangladesh - Mobile subscribers growing strongly in Bangladesh but hard times for local
fixed-line market....25
Bangladesh - Internet Market....26
Bhutan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet....27
Brunei Darussalam - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband....29
Cambodia - Hot competition continues as rationalisation begins....30
China - China and its inexorable move up the value chain....32
China - Broadband Market....33
East Timor (Timor Leste)....34
Hong Kong - Mobile data usage explodes as 3G becomes the dominant technology....36
India - Shockwaves of '2G scandal' as the operators busy rolling out 3G....38
Indonesia - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts....41
Japan - Telecommunications operators face a coming of age....43
Laos - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts....45
Macau - Moving to fixed-line competition....47
Malaysia - one of the more advanced telecom networks in the developing world....48
Maldives - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband....50
Mongolia - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet....52
Myanmar (Burma) - Military regime weighs heavily on Myanmar's telecom sector....54
Nepal - Telecoms, Mobile, Internet and Forecasts....56
North Korea - Telecoms Market Overview and Statistics....58
Pakistan - Mobile market slows, but broadband Internet surges....59
Philippines - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts....61
Singapore - powers on with the rollout of its National Broadband Network....63
Singapore - Major Telecom Operators....65
South Korea embraces the smart-age....66
Sri Lanka sets out on recovery path: push towards a connected, online society....68
Taiwan - 3G and FttX at a tipping point to drive ARPU....70
Tajikistan - Global financial crisis hits, but mobile market growing by 20% a year....72
Thailand - Government still struggling to issue 3G licences....74
Turkmenistan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet....76
Uzbekistan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts....78
Vietnam - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts....80
About Buddecomm:....82
About TelecomsMarketResearch....84
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