Market Trend

The telecommunication industry is rapidly deregulated across the Asia Pacific Region; more carriers are taking advantage of the market place and start up their operations. In Hong Kong, there are over 200 ETS licenses granted for carrier operation since 1999. As the competition increases, the margin of profit is also eroding; operation cost has been scrutinized and tightened up for cost control.

Hong Kong deregulation has been ahead in comparison of the surrounding countries. There are a number of fiber optic networks planned to be operational in Hong Kong to service the bandwidth requirement across the region; this has driven down the cost for IPL substantially while the local loop access remains high.