Asia-Pacific Mobile Broadband Market Trends and Opportunities to 2026, a new Telecom Insider Report by the publisher, provides an executive-level overview of the mobile broadband market in Asia-Pacific. It delivers quantitative and qualitative insights into the mobile market, analyzing key trends, competitive dynamics, and growth drivers in the region.
Asia-Pacific as a region is an overall moderately developed mobile broadband market, with a disparity between emerging countries, excluding China, and developed countries.
Most governments in Asia-Pacific recognise mobile broadband as crucial to realise their digitalisation goals and transforming their economies for the adoption of Industry 4.0.
Several markets have welcomed new mobile entrants, which have introduced a degree of disruption. Some of these operators, such as Jio and Rakuten Mobile, have adopted digital focused business models that reduce operating and capital expenditure, while focusing more on higher value ecommerce businesses, allowing them to engage in aggressive price competition.
The COVID-19 crisis has also proved the utility of 5G, such as the adoption of unmanned robot vehicles for use in hospitals to reduce human-to-human contact, and has prompted a number of telcos to accelerate their 5G rollout.
The capital expenditure heavy nature of 5G has prompted corporate and government actions across the region, including mergers, joint ventures, infrastructure sales, towerco formation, and the formation of a Single Wholesale Network, which is the approach that Malaysia and Brunei have chosen.
Asia-Pacific as a region is an overall moderately developed mobile broadband market, with a disparity between emerging countries, excluding China, and developed countries.
Most governments in Asia-Pacific recognise mobile broadband as crucial to realise their digitalisation goals and transforming their economies for the adoption of Industry 4.0.
Several markets have welcomed new mobile entrants, which have introduced a degree of disruption. Some of these operators, such as Jio and Rakuten Mobile, have adopted digital focused business models that reduce operating and capital expenditure, while focusing more on higher value ecommerce businesses, allowing them to engage in aggressive price competition.
The COVID-19 crisis has also proved the utility of 5G, such as the adoption of unmanned robot vehicles for use in hospitals to reduce human-to-human contact, and has prompted a number of telcos to accelerate their 5G rollout.
The capital expenditure heavy nature of 5G has prompted corporate and government actions across the region, including mergers, joint ventures, infrastructure sales, towerco formation, and the formation of a Single Wholesale Network, which is the approach that Malaysia and Brunei have chosen.
It provides an in-depth analysis of the following:
- Section 1: Asia-Pacific in a Global Context: This section provides a comparison of Asia-Pacific's macro-economic KPIs, mobile telecoms market size, and trends with other regions.
- Section 2: Regional Market Trends and Competitive Dynamics: This section analyzes the competitive dynamics that have been shaping the Asia-Pacific mobile broadband markets over the past few years, including market entries, market exits, consolidations, and M&A activities.
- Section 3: Mobile Broadband Subscription Trends: Provides analysis, historical figures, and forecasts of mobile broadband subscriptions and usage trends in the region as well as their growth drivers.
- Section 4: Mobile Broadband Revenue Trends: Examines changes in the breakdown of overall revenue and ARPUs over 2021-2026.
- Section 5: Key findings: A summary of key findings and growth opportunities for Asia-Pacific's mobile broadband market.
Scope
- The Asia-Pacific region will account for 54% of the global mobile subscriptions and 38% of the global mobile service revenue in 2021.
- Mobile subscriptions in Asia-Pacific will reach 5.9 billion by 2026. 4G will hold a 62.8% share of total mobile subscriptions in 2021, and will remain the leading technology through 2026 despite a decline in its share to 50% by 2026.
- During 2019-2021, several operators in the Asia-Pacific region rolled-out 5G services. 5G will account for 42.9% of total mobile broadband subscriptions in 2026, up from 14.8% in 2021.
- M2M/IoT subscriptions will grow at a robust CAGR of 12.5% over 2021-2026 in the region, supported by operators’ growing expansion of vertical-specific solutions.
- Between 2021 and 2026, operators in Asia-Pacific will generate a cumulative US$2.1 trillion in mobile services revenue.
Reasons to Buy
- This Insider Report provides a comprehensive examination through forward-looking analysis of Asia-Pacific’s mobile broadband market trends in a concise analytical format to help executives build proactive and profitable growth strategies.
- Accompanying the publisher's Forecast products, the report examines the assumptions and drivers behind ongoing and upcoming trends in Asia-Pacific’s mobile broadband markets.
- The report is designed for an executive-level audience, with charts and tables boasting presentation quality.
- The broad perspective of the report coupled with comprehensive actionable insights will help operators, equipment vendors, and other telecom industry players better position to seize the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacifics's evolving mobile broadband market.
Table of Contents
- Asia-Pacific’s mobile broadband markets - key takeaways
- Asia-Pacific highlights
- Section 1: Asia-Pacific in a global context
- Asia-Pacific’s main facts - 2021
- Asia-Pacific’s demographics at a glance
- Asia-Pacific in a global context
- Section 2: Competitive dynamics
- Competitive dynamics in Asia-Pacific
- Asia-Pacific’s main competitive market trends
- Mobile services market: Penetration and subscription trends
- Section 3: Mobile broadband subscription trends
- Mobile user trends in Asia-Pacific
- Mobile technology trends in Asia-Pacific
- Mobile device trends in Asia-Pacific
- M2M/IoT trends in Asia-Pacific
- Mobile traffic trends in Asia-Pacific
- Section 4: Mobile broadband revenue trends
- Mobile average revenue per user (ARPU) trends in Asia-Pacific
- Mobile revenue trends in Asia-Pacific
- Section 5: Key findings and recommendations
- Key findings and recommendations
- Appendix
- Acronyms and definitions
- Companies mentioned
- Related research
- About the Publisher
- Contact information
List of Figures
- Population, 2021-2026 (millions)
- Nominal GDP, 2021-2026 (US$ trillion)
- Real GDP growth, 2021-2026
- User penetration, 2021 (% of population)
- Subscription penetration, 2021 (% of population)
- Prepaid subscriptions as a % of total subscriptions, 2021
- Monthly ARPU, 2021 (US$)
- Data as a share of total ARPU, 2021 (% of ARPU)
- Monthly voice MOU, 2021 (minutes/month)
- Major competitive changes, 2016-2021
- MVNO subscriptions and share of total mobile subscriptions in Asia-Pacific, 2020-2026
- Top five markets in terms of MVNO market share in Asia-Pacific, 2021
- Mobile user penetration vs. PPP-adjusted GDP per capita, 2021
- Mobile users, Asia-Pacific, 2021-2026 (billions)
- Mobile subscriptions and penetration in Asia-Pacific, 2021-2026
- Mobile subscriptions by technology generation, 2021-2026
- Top five markets in terms of 5G subscriptions as a % of total subscriptions, 2026
- Mobile subscriptions by device type, 2021-2026 (millions)
- Net additions by device type, 2021 vs. 2026 (millions)
- Mobile handset subscriptions by type, 2021-2026 (millions)
- Telstra’s smartphone offer in Australia, 2021
- M2M/IoT subscriptions and revenue, 2021-2026
- Examples of solutions offered by telcos
- Total mobile data traffic, 2021 vs. 2026 (PB)
- Bharti Airtel’s platinum postpaid plans, 2021
- Mobile ARPU in Asia-Pacific (US$), 2021 vs. 2026
- Cost of 1GB of data as % of the total monthly PPP adjusted GDP per capita, 2021 (US$)
- Mobile service revenue by device type, 2021 vs. 2026
- Select markets in terms of mobile service revenue in US$, CAGR 2021-2026
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- Amaysim
- Axiata
- Bharti Airtel
- BSNL
- CAT Telecom
- CBN
- Celcom
- China Unicom
- CTExcel
- Digi
- Dito Telecommunity
- Etisalat Sri Lanka
- Hutch Sri Lanka
- Idea Cellular
- Indosat Ooredoo
- KDDI
- Mislatel
- MNTL
- Mytel
- Optus
- Rakuten
- Rakuten Mobile
- Reliance Communications
- Reliance Jio
- Singtel
- Spark
- Telenor
- Telstra
- TOT
- TPG Telecom
- Tri Indonesia
- Vodafone Idea
- Vodafone India
- Vodafone Hutchison Australia
