3G is taking off across the Asia-Pacific region, more or less…it’s a pretty varied region. “Many of those that have upgraded have done so as part of the natural upgrade cycle and are unaware of their phone’s new 3G abilities. However, many 3G subscribers will be of potentially higher value – upgrading as a result of being attracted to a particular ‘iconic’ handset or piqued by interest in a particular service.”
–In Japan, “KDDI’s au Corp brand now has less than 800,000 customers on cdmaOne networks (compared to 22.8 million on CDMA 1X and EV-DO), while NTT DoCoMo is upgrading around 1 million 2G subscribers to 3G each month: it has 26.2 million WCDMA customers.”
–Australia has 1.6 million WCDMA users, representing 8% of the user base.
–Hong Kong has 14% of its mobile subscribers using 3G, which is expected to grow to 20% by the end of the year.
–Singapore has around 10% of mobile users on 3G, and Ovum “expects connections to also be close to 20% of the user base by December”.
–“In Taiwan (a market with some of the lowest data usage worldwide) around 8% of the subscriber base has moved to 3G; however, not all have 3G handsets. New entrants Vibo and Aurora (an MVNO) along with the GSM operators are stepping up the competitive pace.”
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