Future of the Internet
With declining costs to purchase devices and lower rates to subscribe to internet plans, the increased penetration of mobile devices in Asia is perhaps the biggest factor driving internet usage here.
64 percent of the Asia Pacific (APAC) residents are already smartphone users, according to GSMA’s latest mobile economy report. And that share is without taking into account Taiwan and China — or any of its territories like Hong Kong, and Macao.
Smartphone adoption is expected to surpass 80 percent by 2025 in Asia Pacific, which means billions of internet-capable users in this territory alone. Several APAC nations are leading network readiness in the region, most notably Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
Meanwhile, all of the countries which have significantly improved their mobile connectivity in the last six years are all Asian nations, with Vietnam, Iran, India, Bhutan, and Bangladesh showing the greatest mobile internet penetration gains, according to a GSMA report.
Confirmed Contributors (Name Order)
- Chris Harris, EMEA Technical Director, Thales
- Christian Patouraux, CEO, Kacific
- Claus Nielsen, CMO, Holm Security
- David Hambling, CEO, Asia Pacific Pod Group
- Jesse Brown, CEO, Himalaya
- Michel Dothey, COO neXat
- Mike Holmes, Solutions Consulting Manager & Robert Jenkins, Regional Programmer Director, RELEX Solutions
- Mr. Sulaiman Al Ali, CEO, Thuraya
- Paul Britnell & Sam Bangle, Founders, Altnets
- Radek Pluhar, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Risk Officer, Home Credit
- Ram Venkatesh, CTO, Cloudera
- Rebecca Handfield, VP, Marketing & Public Relations, Brainbox AI
- Stephan Robineau, EVP, Network Business Division Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
- Sunny Rao, Senior Vice President, API Global Sales, Vonage
- Thanh Tai Vo, Director, Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, Asia Pacific, LexisNexis Risk
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