Summary
Asia Pacific telecom operators are steadily reshaping their revenue mix as beyond connectivity revenue — everything outside traditional voice, data, and fixed-line services — becomes a bigger lever for growth than the core network business alone. Leading APAC telcos are examined across the first half of 2024 to see how enterprise non-connectivity offerings such as managed services, cloud, cybersecurity and IoT are performing against content and media, and payments and e-commerce segments across the region.
Operators including Taiwan Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, SoftBank, PCCW, KT Corp, SK Telecom and Bharti Airtel are each pursuing distinct diversification strategies. From OTT streaming partnerships and pay-TV content licensing to AI-driven cloud infrastructure, digital-intelligent operations, fintech wallets, and bundled mobile-content offerings, telcos are converting adjacent digital services into durable, higher-margin revenue streams beyond the connectivity pipe.
Readers get a market-by-market and operator-by-operator breakdown of which non-connectivity categories — enterprise digital transformation, media and entertainment, or embedded finance — are gaining the most traction, alongside the partnership models, merger synergies and content strategies underpinning that growth across Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and India.
- Covers enterprise cloud, cybersecurity and managed services as growth drivers
- Tracks content, media and OTT streaming expansion across multiple APAC markets
- Examines payments, e-commerce and financial services contributions to telco revenue
Which beyond-connectivity levers are moving the revenue needle fastest for Asia Pacific telecom operators in 2024?
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