Feb 12 2009

Exponential Growth of Mobile Traffic

Africa has registered one of the highest annual growth rates in global mobile subscribers over the last decade.

According to the 2008 ITU ICT Indicators report, Africa..

  • has some 280 million total telephone subscribers, of which some 260 million (over 85%) are mobile cellular subscribers, representing the continent with the highest ratio of mobile to total telephone subscribers of any region in the world.

  • is the region with the highest mobile cellular growth rate (worldwide). Growth over the past 5 years averages almost 65% year on year.

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