Research and Markets: The Africa Mobile Voice and Data Communication Statistics Report is Now Available

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ea30f5/africa_mobile_vo) has
announced the addition of the "Africa - Mobile Voice and Data Communication
Statistics (tables only)" report to their offering.

This report provides 181 statistical tables showing trends and developments in
the mobile telecommunications and mobile data markets of the 38 most significant
African countries in terms of telecommunications. Statistics are given up to
2008.

Mobile phone networks dominate Africa's telecommunications markets; they provide
around 90% of all subscriber connections. The subscriber base is still growing
at around 40% per year across the continent, but the growth curves are beginning
to flatten in the more mature markets, forcing operators to compete more
aggressively on price, quality of service and by introducing new services.
However, enormous further potential remains, with overall market penetration
only standing at around 40% while the first African countries have recently
broken the 100% barrier. With their superior national coverage and large
subscriber bases compared with the fixed-line networks, Africa's mobile
operators have built up a level of market power to the extent that they have
been called 'the new incumbents'. However, newly introduced converged licensing
regimes are now allowing many old national telcos and other second tier players
to enter the lucrative mobile market as well, but they also allow the mobile
operators to branch out into new service segments. Due to Africa's limited
fixed-line infrastructure, the mobile networks are beginning to play an
increasing role in Internet service provision, following the launch of 3G mobile
broadband services in a growing number of markets. Mobile payment and banking
services are revolutionising Africa's banking sector where only a small
percentage of the population has access to bank accounts. These new services
provide welcome new revenue streams in an almost entirely prepaid environment of
low ARPU levels. Mobile ARPU has bottomed in many African markets, rising again
on the back of mobile data services and streamlined operations. The following
notes provide some background to our scenario forecasting methodology:

This report includes what we term scenario forecasts. By describing long-range
scenarios we identify a band within which we expect market growth to occur. The
associated text describes what we see as the most likely growth trend within
this band. The projections shown in the tables in this report are based on our
own historical information, as well as on telecommunication sector statistics
from official and non-official, national and international sources. We assume a
possible deviation of 15-20% around this data. All statistics for GDP, revenue,
etc are shown in US$, in order to maintain consistency within and between
markets. At the same time we acknowledge that this can introduce some
irregularities.

Key Topics Covered:

* National Comparative Tables
* Mobile Communications and mobile Data Statistics

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