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Article: African Mobile Market Defies 2008 Global Downturn with 25% Growth Says New Research from Blycroft Publishing.(Industry overview)
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- September 17, 2009
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LONDON -- New research recently released by Blycroft Publishing (www.blycroft.com) sees 25% growth across the African mobile market with the activation of 74 million new subscribers. The 'Africa and Middle East Mobile Network Operators Directory' (http://www.mnodirectory.com/africa_mideast.htm) looks into this market and examines 214 networks across 193 pages of research.
At the end of March 2008 the African mobile market stood at 296 million subscribers. During 2008 the market grew by more than 74 million subscribers reaching 370 million mobile subscribers as of Q408, representing a remarkable 25% increase in the size of the market.
This 25% rate of ...