Diffusions of mobile cellular phones in East, Southeast, and South Asia

This paper will examine the patterns of diffusion of mobile phones of 25 countries in the East, Southeast, and South Asia (ESS Asia) for the period between 1995 and 2010. We will first examine the growth patterns in the number of mobile phones in the world and in the ESS Asia. We will then examine mobile and fixed phone uses per 100 inhabitants. Comparisons of the total number of mobile phone uses between countries are not as useful because of the differences in their population sizes. We will examine how mobile phones per 100 inhabitants fared relative to their fixed phone per 100 housefolds at several different points in time. We will then examine how the rankings of the countries with respect to mobile phone per 100 changed at different points in time and explore their implications. Finally, we will carry out the usual multivariate statistical analysis to identify the economics and cultural variable that may influence the behavior of mobile phone uses.