Sustained government efforts to expand the Philippines’ high-value-added industries are gaining momentum, as new subsectors within the information and communications technology (ICT) industry are joining with flourishing business process outsourcing (BPO) operations in driving the local tech sector to prominence. In particular, the software industry...
The regulatory structure of the telecoms sector entered into a state of flux in 2011, a reflection of the dynamic market that the government is tasked with overseeing. This uncertainty is rooted in the reorganisation of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), to which the primary regulator, the National Telecommunications...
Complicated and continuously evolving, the local telecommunications market ended 2011 with only two mobile players in operation. The current state of the industry is the result of a number of mergers and acquisitions that culminated in 2011 with the absorption of the country’s third-largest mobile operator, Digitel’s Sun Cellular, by the Philippine...
Along with public sector support for its technology sector, Mongolia has a population with an increasing level of disposable income and a mind to try new technologies, if the rapid take-up in the mobile telephony market is any indication. One of the biggest limiting factors for the sector in the future is the national broadband network, which is...
So many opportunities in Mongolia are just that – potential yet to be fully explored. That is what makes the mobile market so unique – it is one of just a handful of mature segments. Mobile telephony in 2010 attracted approximately 73% of all telecoms investment. There were 91.3 mobile subscribers per 100 people according to the Communications...
Like most sectors, the technology industry in Mongolia is just getting started. Broadband networks are still in development, and internet and computer penetration rates are low. Getting everyone plugged in and computer-literate is going to be a challenge due to the country’s geography – Mongolia is the least densely populated nation in the world,...
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