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ITU TELECOMMUNICATION INDICATORS UPDATE OCTOBER - NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2000 E A S T E R N R E S U R G E N C E ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNICATION MARKETS The Asia region was adversely af- population. Despite flat economic fected by the economic crisis that growth in 1997 and 1998, the tele- struck in mid-1997. Economic out- communication networks of the put declined sharply in many East regions developing countries con- and South East Asian economies. tinued to grow. The most resilient Recent data suggest that the region were the Internet and mobile sec- has overcome this setback and is tors. Five of the top ten Internet poised to regain its position as the markets in the world are now in the pre-eminent telecommunication Asia-Pacific region. In terms of sub- market in the world. Trends in Asia- scribers in the mobile arena, China Pacific telecommunication markets and Japan hold the second and third presented here are extracted from the ranking in the world respectively. fourth edition of ITUs Asia-Pacific Fixed-line networks have also Telecommunication Indicators, pre- grown, albeit much slower than the pared for ASIA TELECOM 2000 tak- Internet or mobile. ing place in the Special Administra- tive Region (SAR) of Hong Kong from There is still much room for im- 4 to 9 December 2000. provement among the regions de- veloping countries. Overall, the Around one-third of the worlds fixed-line density for developing telecommunication market – mea- countries in the region was just more have not signed up because sured by subscribers and users of above five main lines per 100 in-