The author is based in Taiwan. I believe he would have good insight into developments and trends in Asian regions generally. That's a very interesting list of

The author is based in Taiwan. I believe he would have good insight into developments and trends in Asian regions generally. That's a very interesting list of absent economies that you posted though. We don't hear much from the telecom/internet backbone from those areas... perhaps they don't have as much local development and rely more on US/China based developments and infrastructure.