Indonesian Cellular Market Fourth Largest in the World

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JAKARTA - Indonesia the world's top-four for the growth of mobile services. A research conducted by Wireless Intelligence says that global mobile services growth is sustained rapid cellular growth in the Asia-Pacific region.

The study says that of 10 countries with the growth of the world's largest mobile market, there were six countries in the Asia-Pacific region. That is China's first ranking of the world, India (2), (4), Vietnam (7), Japan (8) and Pakistan (9).

Asia-Pacific region is recorded as a region with the highest growth rates in the world. Growth this year is estimated to reach 50 percent over the previous year. A total of 2 / 3 mobile users in the region live in China and India.

Wireless Intelligence predicts the user's own mobile until the end of the year 2011 will reach the 6:07 billion. Predicted number 6 billion users will be reached in November. In the past 16 months, new mobile users reached 1 billion.

The last census in October 2011 mentions the world's population to reach 7 billion people. With the cellular distribution of 6 billion, this means the world's mobile penetration has reached 86 percent.

 Global growth is being driven by the Asia-Pacific region, the which Will rise to account for 50 percent of all connections by year-end, up a percentage point from Q2 2011. Almost two-thirds of the Asia-Pacific total relates to China and India, the two largest mobile markets in the world, the which are Both on track to hit 1 billion connections each early next year.
Six of the world's top ten largest mobile markets Will be located in Asia-Pacific by this point. As well as China (# 1) and India (# 2), these include Indonesia (# 4), Vietnam (# 7), Japan (# 8) and Pakistan (# 9).

Also in Q4, Africa is set to overtake the Americas as the second-largest regional market on 648 million connections (11 percent of the total). Africa is forecast to record the strongest year-on-year growth of all the connections of global regions, rising 18 percent over the previous year. The quarter also see Eastern Europe Will overtake Western Europe in terms of connections. Western Europe is forecast to record the weakest year-on-year growth, up just 3 percent.

In July 2010, the world's cellular users reported to reach 5 billion. To add a new user billion needed within 18 months, because of new rate reached 4 billion in 2008. With 5 billion users registered mobile penetration is 74 percent, or 60 percent when the new mobile users to reach 4 billion.

So far, GSM still dominates the global cellular which reached 73 percent, as much as 16 percent using technology WCDMA / HSPA and CDMA nine percent. When a new mobile users to reach 4 billion, the user WCDMA / HSPA about 8 percent, the increase of one billion mobile users has increased the percentage of users WCDMA / HSPA to 12 percent.

Source: REPUBLIKA.CO.ID