420 million mobile Internet subscribers in 2025

Sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing region in the world in recent years, and mobile broadband is also growing rapidly, according to a report released in Kigali for the Mobile event 360 Africa. By facilitating trade and technical progress, broadband could add more than $ 150 billion to the region's economy by 2022.
                                

More than half of Sub-Saharan Africa's population will subscribe to a mobile phone service by 2025, according to a new study by the Mobile Operators Group (GSMA) The Mobile Economy: Sub-Saharan Africa 2018 . But this growth bumps on several thresholds: that of extreme poverty, of course, but also that of under-16s (40% of the population) who can not afford a phone, let alone a smartphone.

This new report estimates that there will be 634 million subscribers to mobile telephony in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025, or 52% of the population, compared to 44% of the population by the end of 2017. A figure still clearly below the world average, around 66%

Migration to the sub-Saharan Africa broadband
The number of smartphones continues to grow rapidly due to the relative decline in prices, which is helping to accelerate the migration to 3G / 4G broadband mobile networks and services. 420 million people could access internet services in 2025 south of the Sahara. The number of smartphones in use was estimated at the end of 2017 at 250 million.

The report predicts that mobile broadband will represent 87% of mobile connections, compared to 38% in 2017. Today 3G technology dominates the market, but six new 4G networks were launched in the first half of 2018.

Technological Promise
In 2017, mobile technologies and services accounted for 7.1% of Sub-Saharan Africa's GDP, a contribution worth $ 110 billion in economic value added. [19459004By2022thesectorisexpectedtogeneratemorethan$150billion(79%ofGDP)ineconomicvalueasaresultoftheincreasedeconomicactivityandproductivitythatthesenewtechnologiesprovideTherearecurrently122millionmobilebankingusers(telephonebankaccount)Thetechnologicalleapenabledbymobileinternetandespeciallybroadbandcouldrevolutionizemanysectorssuchaseducationagricultureormedicine

Already hundreds of technology start-ups are using mobile to create solutions to meet the continent's multiple challenges.