Between 2009 and 2020, the amount of consumer spending in the Asia-Pacific region will nearly have doubled, and will represent the largest single regional volume of spending, outstripping Europe, North America, Central and South America and the Middle East and Africa.
That will have important ramifications for providers of communication apps and services, creating much larger markets than ever have been seen in those regions.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Asia-Pacific Middle Class Growth Will Drive Communications Revenue Growth
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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