2006 Asia - Mobile Communications and Mobile Data Statistics (tables only)

Publication Date	October 2006
Publisher	BuddeComm
Product Type	Report
Pages	76
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	BUD00040

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Summary

Executive Summary

After a decade in which Asia's mobile industry has been one of the largest and fastest-growing markets in the world, in relative terms a slowdown has occurred, especially in many of the leading national markets in the region. By March 2006, the region had accumulated 850 million mobile subscribers. After a period where annual subscriber growth rates have been well in excess of 50%, the rate has slowed to between 20% and 30%. It was running at close to 25% coming into 2006. At the same time, overall regional penetration had reached only 23% by March 2006, suggesting that there is still a lot more room for growth.

Over the past decade, most of Asia has continued to embrace mobile technology in its various forms, seemingly prepared to shrug off the impact of regional and global economic slowdowns. That is not to say that the Asian market has been without pain. Many Asian operators followed their counterparts in the US and Europe and over the years we have seen mergers and restructurings, refinancing, layoffs; etc, as the players responded to difficult times. And through all this, Asian consumers have continued to acquire and use mobile phones and, more particularly, have been big adopters of new products and services.

A case study in the resilience of the regional markets has been Indonesia. A country seriously affected by economic turmoil in the region in the late 1990s, Indonesia saw its mobile market grow by barely 16% in 1998, but soared more than 100% in 1999. The annual growth rate continued to be up to 60% right through to 2005. Coming into 2006, it was maintaining this rate of expansion and, by March 2006, the country had 45 million mobile subscribers at a penetration of 19%.

As noted already, Asia has not only been dynamic in terms of growth; it has also been a leader in innovation with such products as NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode in Japan and the widespread application of Short Message Service (SMS). It has also offered a useful test bed for the introduction and development of Third Generation (3G) services in their various forms. The innovation was continuing with DoCoMo launching its mobile credit card service in early 2006, in what is again likely to be yet another leading market move.

Content

1. Overview Of Mobile Communications And Mobile Data
2. Afghanistan
3. Armenia
4. Azerbaijan
5. Bangladesh
6. Bhutan
7. Brunei Darussalam
8. Cambodia
9. China
10. East Timor
11. Georgia
12. Hong Kong
13. India
14. Indonesia
15. Japan
16. Kazakhstan
17. Kyrgyzstan
18. Laos
19. Macau
20. Malaysia
21. Maldives
22. Mongolia
23. Myanmar
24. Nepal
25. North Korea
26. Pakistan
27. Philippines
28. Singapore
29. South Korea
30. Sri Lanka
31. Taiwan
32. Tajikistan
33. Thailand
34. Turkmenistan
35. Uzbekistan
36. Vietnam
List Of Tables
- Table 1 - Asia - mobile subscriber growth - 1990 - 2006
- Table 2 - Asia - Fixed-line and mobile phone subscribers and penetration - March 2006
- Table 3 - Asia - top 10 mobile markets - March 2006
- Table 4 - Asia - top 10 mobile markets (ranked by penetration) - 2005/2006
- Table 5 - Asia - top 10 mobile operators by subscribers - March 2005 - 2006
- Table 6 - Asia - mobile markets for countries under 10% penetration - March 2006
- Table 7 - Asia - mobile markets: penetration between 10% and 35% - March 2006
- Table 8 - Asia - GSM subscriber growth - 1997 - 2006
- Table 9 - Asia - CDMA subscriber growth - 1997 - 2006
- Table 10 - Asia - prepaid mobile subscriber growth - 1999 - 2006
- Table 11 - Asia - prepaid subscribers - selected operators - December 2005
- Table 12 - Asia - SMS traffic (selected markets) - December 2005
- Table 13 - Asia - MMS user growth (selected markets) - 2005
- Table 14 - Asia - wireless Internet subscribers - February 2006
- Table 15 - Asia - 3G WCDMA subscriber growth - 2004 - 2006
- Table 16 - Asia - WCDMA, 1xRTT, and 1xEVDO subscribers - March 2006
- Table 17 - Afghanistan - mobile overview- 2005
- Table 18 - Afghanistan - mobile subscriber growth - 2002 - 2005
- Table 19 - Armenia - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 20 - Armenia - mobile subscriber growth - 1996 - 2006
- Table 21 - Armenia - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 22 - Azerbaijan - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 23 - Azerbaijan - mobile subscriber growth - 1996 - 2006
- Table 24 - Azerbaijan - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 25 - Bangladesh - mobile overview - September 2005
- Table 26 - Bangladesh - mobile subscribers by operator - September 2005
- Table 27 - Bangladesh - mobile subscriber growth - 1996 - 2006
- Table 28 - Bangladesh - market share by operator - September 2005
- Table 29 - Bangladesh - subscribers by operator - 1998 - 2005
- Table 30 - Bhutan - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 31 - Bhutan - mobile subscriber growth - 2004 - 2006
- Table 32 - Brunei - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 33 - Brunei - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2006
- Table 34 - Brunei - mobile subscribers and annual change by operator - 2005
- Table 35 - Brunei - prepaid mobile subscribers - 1999 - 2005
- Table 36 - Cambodia - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 37 - Cambodia - mobile subscribers - 1993 - 2005
- Table 38 - Cambodia - mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 39 - Cambodia - mobile subscribers by operator - 1998 - 2005
- Table 40 - China - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 41 - China - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2006
- Table 42 - China - mobile subscribers by operator and system - 2005
- Table 43 - China - 'Little Smart' subscriber growth - 2002 - 2006
- Table 44 - China - prepaid mobile subscribers by operator - December 2005
- Table 45 - East Timor - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 46 - East Timor - mobile subscribers - 1999 - 2006
- Table 47 - Georgia - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 48 - Georgia - mobile subscriber growth and penetration - 1998 - 2006
- Table 49 - Georgia - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 50 - Hong Kong - mobile overview- February 2006
- Table 51 - Hong Kong - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2006
- Table 52 - Hong Kong - mobile service revenue - 1992 - 2006
- Table 53 - Hong Kong - mobile subscribers by operator - December 2005
- Table 54 - Hong Kong - subscribers by operator - 1998 - 2005
- Table 55 - Hong Kong - operator market share by subscribers - 2003 - 2005
- Table 56 - Hong Kong - prepaid SIM card growth - 1997 - 2006
- Table 57 - Hong Kong - monthly SMS volume - 2002 - 2006
- Table 58 - Hong Kong - 2.5G subscriber growth - 2002 - 2006
- Table 59 - India - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 60 - India - mobile subscriber growth - GSM and CDMA - 2002 - 2005
- Table 61 - India - GSM mobile subscriber growth - 1997 - 2006
- Table 62 - India - GSM mobile subscribers by region/circle - 2004 - 2006
- Table 63 - India - GSM mobile operators - subscribers by market share - 2005
- Table 64 - India - mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 65 - India - GSM & CDMA subscribers and market share by operator - December 2005
- Table 66 - India - CDMA mobile operators - subscribers by market share - 2005
- Table 67 - India - WLL technology-based subscribers - March 2006
- Table 68 - India - mobile services revenue - 1996 - 2006
- Table 69 - India - ARPU prepaid/postpaid/blended ARPU per month (in rupees) by circle - December 2005
- Table 70 - Indonesia - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 71 - Indonesia - mobile subscribers - 1995 - 2006
- Table 72 - Indonesia - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 73 - Indonesia - mobile market subscribers and market share by operator - March 2006
- Table 74 - Indonesia - prepaid subscribers - selected operators - December 2005
- Table 75 - Indonesia - Telkomsel postpaid, prepaid ARPU, subscribers - March 2006
- Table 76 - Indonesia - Telkomsel postpaid and prepaid subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006
- Table 77 - Indonesia - Telkomsel subscribers postpaid, prepaid and market share - 1999 - 2006
- Table 78 - Indonesia - Telkomsel SMS services - September 2005
- Table 79 - Indonesia - forecast mobile growth and penetration - 2005; 2010; 2015
- Table 80 - Japan - mobile overview - January 2006
- Table 81 - Japan - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2006
- Table 82 - Japan - mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 83 - Japan - mobile subscribers by system - 2005
- Table 84 - Japan - 3G subscribers by operator in Japan - 2005
- Table 85 - Japan - cdmaOne subscribers - 1999 - 2006
- Table 86 - Japan - CDMA 2000 1x subscribers - 2003 - 2006
- Table 87 - Japan - WCDMA subscribers - 2003 - 2006
- Table 88 - Japan - NTT DoCoMo FOMA WCDMA subscribers - 2001 - 2006
- Table 89 - Japan - PHS subscribers - 1995 - 2006
- Table 90 - Japan - PHS subscribers by carrier - 2005 - 2006
- Table 91 - Japan - prepaid mobile subscribers - April 2006
- Table 92 - Japan - wireless Internet subscribers - April 2006
- Table 93 - Kazakhstan - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 94 - Kazakhstan - mobile subscribers - 1998 - 2006
- Table 95 - Kazakhstan - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 96 - Kyrgyzstan - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 97 - Kyrgyzstan - mobile subscribers and penetration - 1998 - 2006
- Table 98 - Kyrgyzstan - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 99 - Laos - mobile statistics overview - 2005
- Table 100 - Laos - mobile subscribers - 1995 - 2005
- Table 101 - Laos - mobile subscribers and annual growth by operator - 2005
- Table 102 - Laos - mobile operator market share - 2005
- Table 103 - Laos - Lao Telecom's mobile subscribers - 1995 - 2005
- Table 104 - Macau - mobile overview - April 2006
- Table 105 - Macau - mobile subscriber growth - 1990 - 2006
- Table 106 - Macau - mobile subscribers by operator - December 2005
- Table 107 - Malaysia - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 108 - Malaysia - mobile subscriber growth and penetration - 1994 - 2006
- Table 109 - Malaysia - mobile services revenues - 1993 - 2005
- Table 110 - Malaysia - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 111 - Malaysia - mobile subscribers and market share by operator - March 2006
- Table 112 - Malaysia - prepaid mobile subscriber growth and penetration - 2002 - 2005
- Table 113 - Maldives - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 114 - Maldives - mobile subscriber growth - 1998 - 2005
- Table 115 - Maldives - postpaid and prepaid - 2004
- Table 116 - Mongolia - mobile statistics overview - March 2006
- Table 117 - Mongolia - mobile subscribers and penetration - 1996 - 2006
- Table 118 - Mongolia - mobile subscribers and yearly growth by operator - March 2006
- Table 119 - Myanmar - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 120 - Myanmar - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2005
- Table 121 - Nepal - mobile statistics overview - 2005
- Table 122 - Nepal - mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 123 - Nepal - mobile subscriber and penetration - 1999 - 2005
- Table 124 - North Korea - mobile statistics - 2005
- Table 125 - Pakistan - mobile statistics overview - 2005
- Table 126 - Pakistan - mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 127 - Pakistan - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2005
- Table 128 - Pakistan - mobile operator market share - 2001 - 2005
- Table 129 - Pakistan - mobile services revenue - 1998 - 2005
- Table 130 - Philippines - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 131 - Philippines - mobile subscriber growth and penetration - 1992; 1994; 1996 - 2006
- Table 132 - Philippines - mobile services revenue - 1993 - 2005
- Table 133 - Philippines - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 134 - Philippines - mobile market shares - March 2006
- Table 135 - Philippines - Globe Telecom subscribers - 2001 - 2006
- Table 136 - Singapore - mobile statistics overview - March 2006
- Table 137 - Singapore - mobile subscriber growth - 1996 - 2006
- Table 138 - Singapore - 3G mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 139 - Singapore - mobile subscribers by operator / system - 2005
- Table 140 - Singapore - mobile operator by market share - 2005
- Table 141 - Singapore - fixed-line versus mobile subscriptions and teledensity - March 2006
- Table 142 - Singapore - mobile subscribers by operator - 1998 - 2005
- Table 143 - Singapore - prepaid subscribers - 1999 - 2006
- Table 144 - Singapore - mobile services revenue - 1993 - 2005
- Table 145 - South Korea - mobile statistics overview- 2005
- Table 146 - South Korea - mobile subscriber growth - 1994 - 2006
- Table 147 - South Korea - CDMA 2000 1x subscribers by operator and system - 2004 - 2005
- Table 148 - South Korea - mobile subscribers and market share by operator - December 2005
- Table 149 - South Korea - mobile subscribers by operator and technology - December 2005
- Table 150 - Sri Lanka - mobile overview- September 2005
- Table 151 - Sri Lanka - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2005
- Table 152 - Sri Lanka - mobile subscribers by operator - 2004
- Table 153 - Taiwan - mobile statistics overview - 2006
- Table 154 - Taiwan - mobile subscriber growth and penetration - 1995 - 2006
- Table 155 - Taiwan - mobile services revenue - 1992 - 2006
- Table 156 - Taiwan - mobile subscribers by operator - December 2005
- Table 157 - Taiwan - operator market shares - December 2005
- Table 158 - Taiwan - mobile subscribers by operator- 1998 - 2005
- Table 159 - Taiwan - 3G mobile subscriber growth - 2003 - 2006
- Table 160 - Taiwan - GPRS subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006
- Table 161 - Taiwan - PHS subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006
- Table 162 - Taiwan - WAP subscriber growth - 2001 - 2006
- Table 163 - Tajikistan - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 164 - Tajikistan - mobile subscribers - 1996 - 2006
- Table 165 - Tajikistan - mobile subscribers by operator - March 2006
- Table 166 - Thailand - mobile overview - 2005
- Table 167 - Thailand - mobile subscriber growth - 1998 - 2005
- Table 168 - Thailand - mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 169 - Thailand - mobile market share - 2005
- Table 170 - Thailand - prepaid subscribers and percentage of subscriber base by operator - 2005
- Table 171 - Thailand - mobile services revenue - 1998 - 2005
- Table 172 - Turkmenistan - mobile overview - March 2006
- Table 173 - Turkmenistan - mobile subscriber growth and penetration - 1997 - 2006
- Table 174 - Turkmenistan - mobile subscribers and market share by operator - March 2006
- Table 175 - Uzbekistan - mobile statistics overview - March 2006
- Table 176 - Uzbekistan - mobile subscriber penetration - 1997 - 2006
- Table 177 - Uzbekistan - mobile subscribers and market share by operator - March 2006
- Table 178 - Uzbekistan - Uzdunrobita and Unitel mobile subscribers - 1998 - 2006
- Table 179 - Vietnam - mobile statistics overview - 2006
- Table 180 - Vietnam - mobile subscriber growth - 1995 - 2006
- Table 181 - Vietnam - mobile subscribers by operator - 2005
- Table 182 - Vietnam - subscriber growth by operator - 1998 - 2006
- Table 183 - Vietnam - mobile services revenue - 1993 - 2006