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To: Eric L who wrote (8453)	12/5/2000 9:53:12 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Re: The Stakes in China (Asia) >> ITU Predicts An Extra 1 Billion Asian Users In 10 Years Total Telecom 04 December 2000 More than 1 billion additional users will have access to either fixed or mobile telecoms services in the Asia-Pacific region by 2010, according to the authors of the ITU's Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators report. Other highlights from the report presented at the ITU's Telecom Asia 2000 show in Hong Kong by Tim Kelly, co-ordinator of the Strategies and Policy Unit, and Michael Minges, head of the ITU's Telecommunication Data & Statistics Unit, concerned competition, mobile technologies, and Internet subscriber levels. They found that the Asia-Pacific "is one of the most competitive regions in the world," with 53% of territories in the region having privatized operators. Europe has 63% and the Americas 74%, while Africa has only 35%, and the Arab States just 29%. Latest mobile figures find GSM still far and away the dominant standard. Of the region's 185 million mobile subscribers (June 2000 figures), 49% were GSM users, 29% used PDC or PHS (Japanese technologies), 18% CDMA and 4% other (AMPS/DAMPS/TACS/NMT). Meanwhile, the report's authors found that five of the world's Top 10 Internet user markets are in Asia based on June 2000 figures. Whilst the U.S. still boasts far and away the most Internet users (83.8 million), Japan comes in second (26.3 million), China third (16.9 million), and the Republic of Korea fourth (15.8 million). Australia was in ninth and Taiwan-China tenth, both with 6.4 million Internet users. But what of the future for Internet subscriber levels, especially in China? "It is impossible to predict the take-up of the Internet in China," said Minges. "But within five years China will probably be the largest Internet-using territory in the world." Kelly added that the popularity of mobile use, and proliferation of mobile Internet services, would give China the highest user figures. << - Eric -