Mobile broadband is the biggest single revenue opportunity in Africa in the immediate and longer term, according to the results of a recent Industry Outlook survey commissioned by Informa Telecoms &Media. By way of contrast, data service revenues represent about 43 percent of service provider revenue in the North American markets.
Informa forecasts that annual mobile data revenues in Africa will reach $18.5 billion by 2016. In 2011 mobile data represented 12 percent of service provider revenue.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Mobile Data Will Reach 22% of Total Mobile Service Revenue by 2016
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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