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The analysis followed two previous studies carried out between 2012 and 2014 covering North, Central, and South-East Asia, for a total of 25 countries across the continent.

The analyses of South and West Asian countries, as well as the ongoing analyses of markets across the entire continent, revealed an acute disparity between those countries with sufficiently developed markets and infrastructure, and those without. An examination of the "fuel" of the region's information and communications technology (ICT) sector - international bandwidth - reveals that Asia's regional bandwidth inequality is the most pronounced of any continent.

The analysis followed two previous studies carried out between 2012 and 2014 covering North, Central, and South-East Asia, for a total of 25 countries across the continent.

The analyses of South and West Asian countries, as well as the ongoing analyses of markets across the entire continent, revealed an acute disparity between those countries with sufficiently developed markets and infrastructure, and those without. An examination of the “fuel” of the region’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector—international bandwidth—reveals that Asia’s regional bandwidth inequality is the most pronounced of any continent.

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