Penetrasi Mobile di Singapur 150%

Singapore mobile telephone penetration crosses 150 percent in 2011

2012-05-11

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Saya masih rada bingung dengan penetrasi melewati 150%. Dari judul mustinya penetrasi dilihat dari jumlah penduduk terhadap jumlah seluler phone.

Telecom Lead Asia: Singapore's overall mobile telephone penetration passed the 150 percent mark in late 2011, according to the latest "Singapore - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband" report available from Research and Markets.

The country's 3G market continues to flourish. In May 2011, the country had around 5.8 million 3G subscribers, meaning 74 percent of all mobile subscribers are 3G and effectively 100 percent of the households in the country now have some form of high speed broadband Internet access.

The Singapore government's large scale project to build an island-wide broadband network called the Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure (Next Gen NII) is proceeding. While the IDA had initially reported good progress on the roll-out of this network, in early 2012 it intervened in the construction process upon concerns with the slowing pace.

According to the IDA the network will deliver universal coverage by the 2013 target.

A significant trend noted in Singapore telecommunications market is that the fixed line telephone services remain remarkably resilient with what the IDA describes as more than 100 percent of households connected to the fixed network.

SingTel Group, through its alliance with Bharti Airtel in India, has further market presence in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Africa. By the start of 2012 the SingTel group had 434 million mobile subscribers across its many markets.

Singapore's mobile subscriber base has continued to grow (152 percent penetration by December 2011) as well as its value-added data services. The launch of 3G services has been particularly insightful. There was an obvious period of uncertainty surrounding the introduction of 3G. After launch in 2005 the take up rate was initially slow.

By early 2012, there were more than 5.8 million 3G subscribers in a country where the total mobile market was around 7.8 million. In other words 3G subscribers represented a compelling 74 percent of the total subscriber base as 3G rapidly became the normal' mobile service in the country.

The roll-out of the national broadband network seemed to be proceeding at a good pace through 2011. Nucleus Connect had started offering commercial services on the network in September 2010. Network coverage had reached the required 60 percent of the population by end-2010 and by halfway through 2011 was on track to provide 95 percent coverage by mid-2012.