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Southeast Asia's digital services surge as coronavirus pandemic kept people at home

Date: 2020-11-11

CNBC

 

PUBLISHED MON, NOV 9 202010:04 PM ESTUPDATED TUE, NOV 10 20202:57 AM EST

Saheli Roy Choudhury

 

SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia saw a surge in the use of digital services like e-commerce, food delivery and online payment due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report from Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Company.

 

As many as 40 million people in six countries across the region — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand — came online for the first time in 2020, the report said. That pushed the total number of internet users in those Southeast Asian countries to 400 million — or nearly 70% of the population, the report said.

 

The report said many of the new users came from non-metropolitan areas in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

 

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