Pokemon Go Spurs Asia Business Boom
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Asian fans of smartphone game Pokemon Go are hunting out the best telecom providers and network gear to overcome the hurdle posed by patchy network signals in their race to capture virtual cartoon characters.

From Indonesia to Hong Kong and Cambodia, the wild popularity of Nintendo’s augmented reality app is also driving lifestyle changes for many gamers, who must trudge through real-life locations in their quest.

The game launched in many Southeast Asian countries on August 5, a month after the United States, New Zealand and Australia, but enthusiasts are finding they must first vanquish shaky transmission signals...

In Indonesia, Muchamad Syaifudin, a 29-year-old bank employee, said he switched to a mobile carrier offering better data packages, while his friends snapped up modems, at a cost of $20 each, to lock on to the signals.
The game officially launched just two weeks ago in Indonesia, but tens of thousands of enthusiastic adopters among a population of 250 million had started playing earlier, using proxy sites to access app stores elsewhere.

Gamers are fuelling a boom for modem makers, such as PT Smartfren Telecom, whose nationwide sales of 4G modems, priced around 300,000 rupiah ($23) each, have jumped fivefold in just two months.

The firm has launched new devices with bigger battery capacity, Derrick Surya, Smartfren’s vice president for brand and marketing communication, told Reuters.

Retailers also benefit as more gamers seek devices to power up mobile connections and minimize the expense of data packages...

Pokemon go already starting to die down here in the states

I love how tapatalk shows pictures. I'd miss so many good threads if it didn't have that preview feature...

ok.... sideways but some what related question:

My little cousin is now into pokemon, sooo.....

IS there some where's I can get a bit of the stuff and take it back to him?

actually, the little guy's my 3rd cousin and he lives in Hicksville so not much access to the stuff. thought I might bring him a surprise he can't get in the US.

any ideas are appreciated.

cheers

Bertros

General Mackevili wrote:There are still some sexy Pokemon I haven't caught:

Time for a new membership I reckon, money well wasted there back in the day! Top place to find a poke!