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Cellular Market Penetration in Africa Expected to Surpass 80% in 1Q-2013, Says ABI Research
The Cellular Market Penetration in Africa Expected to Surpass 80% in 1Q-2013
SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The African cellular market penetration is very much pulling in the subscribers. In 3Q-2012, the 54 countries and 1.08 billion people have accumulated 821 million subscriptions, up 16.9% year-on-year, resulting in a cellular subscription penetration of 76.4%. In the first quarter of 2013, cellular penetration will eclipse 80%. Given the fact that a significant percentage of prepaid users maintain more than one active prepaid subscription to minimize interconnection charges, there is still subscriber growth to be had. “While Western Europe languishes with barely positive overall growth quarter-on-quarter, Africa managed to generate 4.2% growth in the same period,” commented Marina Lu, research associate, ABI Research.
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“While Western Europe languishes with barely positive overall growth quarter-on-quarter, Africa managed to generate 4.2% growth in the same period”
“Subscriptions are still very much dominated by voice communications and text messaging in the form of GSM, with 62.7%. 3G subscriptions—both CDMA2000 and WCDMA—still only represent 11% of the overall African market, while 27% of the market still relies on 2.5G access technologies for mobile data access,” stated Jake Saunders, VP – Forecasting.
Given the lack of access to credit card and banking facilities, the vast majority of subscriber’s access mobile phone services through prepaid. In South Africa, prepaid ratios for the operators range from 70% to 86% but most other countries prepaid ratios stand at over 95%, if not close to 99%.
The top 7 power houses of the region are:
MTN Nigeria—43.2m subscriptions
Vodacom—37.7m subscriptions
Vodafone Egypt—37.5m subscriptions
MobiNil—32.4m subscriptions
MTN South Africa—23.5m subscriptions
Etisalat Misr—22.9m subscriptions
Glo Mobile—22.0m subscriptions
The cellular market penetration in Africa is expected to grow to 1.12 billion by 2017, contributing 13.9% to take the global cellular market to 8.11 billion.
ABI Research’s quarterly updated “Middle East and African Subscriber” Market Data, profiles mobile subscriber adoption by operator, country, technology, device type, and subscriber market-share. Detailed market trends and market forecast information for key regions and countries around the globe are provided. These findings are part of the company’s Mobile Subscribers (abiresearch) Database.
ABI Research provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of trends in global connectivity and other emerging technologies. From offices in North America, Europe and Asia, ABI Research’s worldwide team of experts advises thousands of decision makers through 70+ research and advisory services. Est. 1990.
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