Thriving Mobile Economy

More than half of mobile subscribers in the world are located in Asia Pacific and they are growing annually with no sign of slowing down.

Analysts had pointed how the increase in mobile economy for leading countries in the Asia-Pacific region has dramatically grown in a small amount of time. As of 2013, total global subscriber base is 3.4 billion. 1.7 billion of them are living in Asia-Pacific. China, India, Japan and Indonesia had the largest number of subscribers, ranked according to their sizes. In a nod to the diverse nature of the region though, subscriber penetration was above 90 percent of the population in markets including Japan, but below 15 percent in countries such as Myanmar.