Vietnam’s mobile  penetration rate is set to grow 23.5 per cent per year in the 2008-2013 period according to the study.

The study found the size, shape and relative clout of the world’s global mobile  markets are undergoing a major transformation, with emerging mobile  operators now accounting for a bigger stake than ever before.

It also found that mobile  market clout is now more heavily weighted towards the emerging markets than initially imagined.

North America and Western Europe, home to international giants such as AT&T, Vodafone and Tele-fonica, now account for just 40 per cent of total market capitalisation of the world’s mobile  telecoms assets.

Emerging economies incorporating Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and former Soviet countries now account for the lion’s share at 60 per cent, evening out the score for the first time in the history of mobile  communications.

"At the end of January 2008, the total capital-isation of the world’s mobile  industry stood at approximately US$2.3 trillion, which equates to 3.8 per cent of the world’s total capitalisation and 4.8 per cent of the 2006 world’s GDP," said Kirill Babaev, Altimo Foundation’s CEO.

"This is clearly a massive market which is growing day by day."

The study also noted a significant shift in the balance of power  within the world’s six largest mobile  markets.

Taken together these six leading markets – US, China, India, Japan, Russia and Britain – account for half of the total capital-isation of the world’s mobile  telecoms industry.

Most notably, the Indian market, with a total value of $129 billion, now outstrips that of Japan at $123 billion, a region known as having a highly developed mobile  market.

Perhaps of even more significance is the fact that China, with a 14 per cent global share, is now fast approaching the US with 17 per cent. Russia, one of the countries to adapt most rapidly to the mobile  communications revolution in the last decade, is now the fifth largest mobile  market in the world, by market cap.

A continuing shift

The study finds that penetration trends within emerging markets such as India, Vietnam  and the Philippines  are likely to continue to drive  the capitalisation share for the emerging market operators, at a time when average mobile  spending per capita and penetration in the West stagnates.

"The shift in the balance of power  between the traditional markets and those of the new economies is particularly interesting to us as we seek investment opportunities in the most exciting emerging regions of the world," Kirill said.

The study shows that emerging economies are set to dominate the global mobile  market going forward, representing 70 per cent of the value of the world’s mobile  telecoms assets by 2013.

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