Mumbai, April 15 (ANI-Business Wire India): South Asia's low broadband penetration and high mobile subscriber base creates an ideal setting for mobile network and infrastructure development.
This, coupled with increasing demand for high-quality, seamless broadband connectivity is driving the growth of fixed and mobile broadband services market in the South Asian markets of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
The fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure market in South Asia is currently riding high on the roll out of next-generation technology networks, increased demand for broadband, and operator focus on high-return data services.
Infrastructure vendors will gain more opportunities for revenue generation as operators look to overhaul their networks to support packet-based Internet protocol (IP) traffic. Government initiatives to bridge the digital divide and operator focus on data services will ensure the rapid growth of broadband services.
New analyses from Frost and Sullivan's fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure and services in South Asia, finds that the infrastructure and services markets earned revenues of more than 6.09 billion dollars and 6.89 billion dollars respectively in 2011 and estimates this to reach 17.36 billion dollars and 48.72 billion dollars respectively in 2018.
The mobile broadband services market is expected to witness a twenty-fold growth with a CAGR of 52.8 percent till 2018, while the fixed broadband services segment will grow fourfold with a CAGR of 21.2 per cent during the same period.
On the infrastructure front, the Frost and Sullivan Analyst said, "The telecom sector in South Asia has several next-generation technology deployments in the pipeline, leading to higher investments in mobile and fixed network transformation. The market will also get a boost from commercial third-generation (3G) and pilot fourth-generation long term evolution (4G LTE) projects in India and Sri Lanka, and pilot 3G deployments in Bangladesh."
"On the services front, South Asia's high mobile subscription base offers room for the broadband services market to grow, as demand from the domestic and business segments increases," said the analyst "The rising popularity of social networking applications will further expedite adoption."
Government initiatives and public-private partnerships for broadband deployment, especially in far-flung rural areas, will continue to aid broadband adoption and infrastructure growth in South Asia. Regardless of these efforts by governments and operators, regulatory uncertainties in the region and rising capital and operational expenditures can hamper network deployment. (ANI)
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