Sub-Saharan Africa telecoms market: trends and forecasts 2020–2025
07 April 2021 | Research
Alex Boisot Karim Yaici Ameer Gaili Charlie Westphal Emma Brown Felix Hall Noor Mohammed Khan
Forecast report | PPTX and PDF (59 slides); Excel | The Middle East and Africa
Mobile network operators’ network expansions and LTE deployments, combined with the increasing availability of affordable devices, will result in a growing take-up of mobile data plans and increasing mobile data consumption. Operators will primarily use fixed-wireless access solutions to provide fixed broadband services, while FTTP/B roll-outs will meet the demand in the wealthiest metropolitan areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
This report and associated data annex provide:
- a 5-year forecast of around 200 mobile and fixed KPIs for SSA, as a whole and for 11 key countries
- an in-depth analysis of the trends, drivers and forecast assumptions for each type of mobile and fixed service, and for key countries
- an overview of operator strategies and country-specific topics, in order to highlight similarities and differences by means of a cross-country comparison
- a summary of results and key implications for mobile and fixed operators.
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Connections Mobile
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Pay TV Traffic Fixed and mobile
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Revenue/ARPU/ASPU Mobile
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ICT services Pay TV |

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