Top 10 Asia Pacific telcos to ace non-connectivity revenues in 2023

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Summary

Telecom operators across Asia Pacific are increasingly looking beyond voice, broadband and enterprise connectivity to build revenue streams from cloud services, IoT, content and media bundling, e-commerce and financial services. As core connectivity growth plateaus, this non-connectivity business has become a primary engine of top-line expansion for the region's leading carriers, and its share of total revenue keeps climbing.

Operators are pursuing this diversification through four broad channels: enterprise offerings such as managed services and cybersecurity, content and media partnerships with global streaming platforms, direct e-commerce plays, and a growing list of adjacent services spanning digital marketing, analytics, telehealth and payments. Chinese carriers are emerging as a reference point for enterprise 5G use cases, while operators in Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines are each carving out their own specialisations, from e-commerce ecosystems to fintech-driven super apps.

A growth index weighing absolute revenue gains, percentage growth and the overall share non-connectivity now represents offers a lens into which carriers are executing this pivot most effectively and which pillars are proving most lucrative for each market.

  • Enterprise cloud, IoT and cybersecurity as the most widely adopted pillar
  • Content and media bundling through global streaming partnerships
  • Financial services and e-wallets as an emerging growth frontier

Which combination of non-connectivity pillars will define the next phase of telco growth in Asia Pacific?

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