4.7 Billion Subscribers by 2022?

The Asia-Pacific region accounts for more than half of the world’s 7.7 billion wireless subscribers.

Nonetheless, it remains a region of extremes. While one country boasts the largest 4G LTE market on the planet, others have yet to offer licenses for LTE services.

This month Pete Bell is looking closer at Asia's wireless market. The region is expected to have 4.7 billion wireless subscribers by the end of 2022, up from 4.2 billion as of December 2017. Read more here.

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