Category: Broadband & High-Speed
Asia Broadband & High-Speed
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China - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... mobile sector has largely been propelled by government policy. The telecommunications sector (and industry, given the large number of equipment manufacturers based in China) is seen as a critical element to support the country’s economic ... Read More
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South Korea - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... speed, the government has put a sudden halt on expanding the amount of spectrum available for 5G use. This follows complaints from the country’s two largest MNOs, SK Telecom and KT Corp, that the planned ... Read More
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Azerbaijan - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... years ago, but neither company seems keen to invest further towards transforming those results into a commercial proposition. The reasons for the delay are threefold. Firstly, the MNOs claim that they are yet to see ... Read More
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Thailand - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... significantly lesser deployment of cable broadband, as well as some broadband wireless access. The transition to these other technology platforms had previously been inhibited by the Thai regulatory environment, which saw ISPs unwilling to invest ... Read More
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North Korea - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... North Korea Post and Telecommunication Company (NKPTC) that set up the country’s 3G mobile network, Koryolink, in 2008 following the demise of the Sunnet GSM service that same year. Koryolink’s 25-year license gave it exclusive ... Read More
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Afghanistan - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... infrastructure projects in late-2021. However, the Taliban’s return to power following the collapse of the Afghan government and the withdrawal of international security forces has raised the prospect of these ventures never actually seeing the ... Read More
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Macau - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... region’s fixed-line telephony, fixed broadband, and even internet service provision. This is mostly down to the fact that, despite the government having liberalised the telecoms market many years ago and allowing a number of new ... Read More
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Turkey - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... in smart infrastructure. This will also be supported by 5G, though a tender for suitable spectrum is not expected to be held until 2022 and commercial services are thus unlikely before 2023.In the meantime, the ... Read More
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Laos - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... well before being able to build sufficient market penetration with 4G LTE coverage. Unitel was the first of the country’s four mobile network operators to kick things off with 5G trials in late-2019. This followed ... Read More
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Kyrgyzstan - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... interest from potential bidders, Kyrgyzstan’s planned 5G spectrum auction in 2020 was suspended along with the launch of test networks. The Ministry of Digital Development released new plans at the start of 2022, rescheduling the ... Read More
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India - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... complete their 5G trials by another six months. The effect of this extension is that the 5G spectrum auctions are likely to be delayed until the second half of 2022, pushing the start of commercial ... Read More
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Turkmenistan - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... penetration rates (in terms of accessibility) in the world, ranking second only to North Korea. At the same time, it enjoys near saturation levels for mobile phone subscriptions. Part of the reason behind this incongruity ... Read More
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Bhutan - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... in March 2020. In this document, BICMA outlined a launch timetable along with a set of measures covering the rollout of 5G networks in the country. Notably, the regulator anticipated holding off a launch of ... Read More
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Georgia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
... the Internet. It has been actively encouraging investment in fibre networks to offset the poor state of the country’s fixed-line infrastructure, for example. Likewise, the country’s three MNOs (SilkNet, MagtiCom, and VEON Georgia) have each ... Read More
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