Mobile penetration in India reached 74% 2011 with room for further growth accroding to a recent Research and Markets n Report entitled "India - Mobile Communications - Market Overview, Technologies and Forecasts."

The Satellite TV  industry is in the midst of a revolution according to a report by IBISWorld. Satellite TV providers  supply popular family shows, news, movies, sports, documentaries and other products to a growing swarm of eager subscribers willing to pay for in-home entertainment. For example, the introduction of high-definition (HD) TV vastly improved the quality of shows and attracted subscribers even as disposable income dropped during the Great Recession.

Mobile Internet will account for 25% of China’s mobile revenues in 2012, up from less than 23% in 2011. In India, mobile Internet will represent 19% of this year’s service revenue. While the figures demonstrate the robust demand for mobile data across the Asia-Pacific, they still pale in comparison to the region’s more advanced markets like Japan (40%) and Hong Kong (44%).

ITU’s upcoming ITU Telecom World 2012 event will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 14-18 October 2012. The event, which follows the format pioneered at World 2011, will see interactive debate, networking and knowledge-sharing placed firmly at the center of an influential discussion agenda.

by Virgil Labrador, Editor-in-Chief

The satellite industry will continues to grow in the coming years albeit at a more modest pace.  This was the consensus  among senior satellite industry executives speaking at the Satellite 2012 Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. and Cabsat/Satellite MENA 2012 in Dubai, UAE held last month.  There are some concerns with the developing economic crisis in Europe, where three of the four major satellite operators are based, but the mood is decidedly bullish.

BroadcastAsia2012 International Conferencereturns with an impressive line-up of over 80 reputed industry speakers to deliberate on the most critical issues facing broadcasters today. Running from 19 to 22 June 2012 at the Suntec Convention Centre, the conference agenda foretells the ‘reinvention’ of the broadcast industry as content is re-purposed towards viewers who have become increasingly more mobile and who view content on various devices. Broadcasters are forced to reckon with this fact and gear up to cater to this growing trend.

This week’s CASBAA India Forum mapped out the direction of the multichannel TV industry across India’s market of 120 million cable TV subscribers. Almost 200 delegates, speakers and media were on hand to discuss the most important opportunities emerging from the ongoing digital deployments.

Despite a nearly US$7 billion multichannel TV market, only 60% of India’s vast population owns a television. The CASBAA India Forum 2012: Beyond Digital, staged on 20 March 2012 at the Shangri-La Hotel, New Delhi, will examine important issues affecting multichannel TV in India.

After more than four years of discussion, debate and deliberation in February of this year the Australian government’s NBN Co. Ltd.

Indonesia’s pay-TV market is taking off, speakers told a capacity crowd of delegates at CASBAA’s Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV forum, held in Jakarta on February 29th. With more than 2 million paying subscribers at the beginning of 2012, a host of new distribution platforms coming online, and strong economic fundamentals, Indonesia is looking to become one of Asia’s fast-growth TV success stories.