• ICT

    OBG’s coverage of the telecoms sector looks at market structure, regulatory framework, government goals, foreign participation and the roll-out of new technologies. Our ICT analysis reviews hardware and software markets, corporate spending, national bandwidth and government support.
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Economic update | Brunei Darussalam: ICT gaining ground

12 Jan 2012
Brunei Darussalam’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector is winning international recognition and moving closer to meeting the government’s objective of making the Sultanate a knowledge-based economy. However, the acceptance of ICT in daily life is by no means even throughout the country.
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Chapter | Telecoms and IT from The Report: Indonesia 2012

With estimates that only about half of Indonesia’s 240m people use a mobile phone, there is great potential for growth. The three main players in the mobile segment have engaged in a price war since 2007 as voice costs have dropped precipitously, although forecasts expect them to grow on the strength of new subscribers. Future revenue growth will also rely on data and value-added services. These...
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Economic update | Saudi Arabia: Networking solutions

11 Jan 2012
Saudi Arabia’s telecommunications sector is to get a major shake up this year, with up to three new operators entering the mobile phone segment, though the route they will be taking will be very different from that followed by the three existing service providers.
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Report | The Report: Indonesia 2012

Cover of The Report: Indonesia 2012

An archipelago of over 17,500 islands, Indonesia is today the world’s fourth-largest country by population, at 245m. The astonishing diversity of ethnicities and cultures comes together in a democratic framework under the pancasila, or “five principles”: nationalism, humanitarianism, representative democracy, social welfare and monotheism

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Economic update | Sabah: Closing the broadband divide

22 Dec 2011
With the federal government targeting broadband penetration rates of 75% by the end of 2015, much work remains to be done in Sabah, which, at 33%, has the lowest penetration rate of all Malaysia’s states. Some progress has been seen in this regard recently, however, with several telecoms companies moving to boost their investments in Eastern Malaysia.
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Economic update | Egypt: Connections for the future

20 Dec 2011
In what comes as no surprise for a country that used Facebook, Twitter and mobile phones to help overturn a political regime, a recent report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) stated that Egypt “is poised to emerge as a major player in the information economy”.
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