Asia ICT

With one of the most connected online populations in the region, the Philippines offers many areas of potential growth for telecoms companies, both in terms of selling services and devices. With the introduction of a new operator in 2016, the competition to capture market share is going to increase.

The Philippines’ telecoms sector is preparing to welcome a possible new player into the field in 2016. The likely new telco provider will be established by San Miguel, a Philippine conglomerate mostly involved in food, beverage and packaging, but also telecoms. However, the country’s two major telcos, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone...

The growth of the IT sector has been partly overshadowed by the liberalisation of the telecoms industry. However, the arrival of major international telecoms players has opened up significant new opportunities for Myanmar’s expanding tech market. Yet this has also put some strain on the country’s internet capacity as a population of more than...

Myanmar’s telecoms sector is in the midst of an energetic expansion, which is reshaping the economic and social composition of the country. The arrival of international mobile network operators (MNOs) in the autumn of 2014 is expanding the ICT market well beyond its former capacities, with an array of new technologies that are dramatically...

The expansion of Myanmar’s ICT sector is one of the brightest spots in an economy that has undergone rapid transformation in recent years. The increasing demand for data has caught operators off guard. Norway’s Telenor initially launched a combination 2G and 3G network in the anticipation that a good percentage of users would not have 3G...

According to the International Telecommunication Union, only 6.5% of Papua New Guinea’s population uses the internet, with those accessing internet services via a fixed-line connection standing at just 1%. One of the factors behind low penetration has been a lack of network availability outside of the main cities, where around 80% of the...