Mobile phone operators to invest $50bn in Sub-Saharan Africa
At the recent "Connect Africa" summit, the GSM Association announced that the mobile industry plans to invest more than $50 billion in sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years to provide more than 90% of the population with mobile coverage. The investment will be used to extend the reach of GSM mobile networks, enhanced with GPRS, EDGE and HSPA technologies, to provide a rich suite of mobile multimedia services, including internet access.
Frontier (London) was commissioned to provide an estimate of future investment in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, based on forecasts supplied by mobile operators serving approximately 70% of sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile users today. This forms part of a wider piece of work that Frontier is currently undertaking for the GSMA to look into the effect of the tax regime on the mobile sector in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries.
Frontier (London) was commissioned to provide an estimate of future investment in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, based on forecasts supplied by mobile operators serving approximately 70% of sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile users today. This forms part of a wider piece of work that Frontier is currently undertaking for the GSMA to look into the effect of the tax regime on the mobile sector in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries.
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