* Africa has the fastest growing telecoms market in the world, with 316 million subscribers in only 10 years.
* The number of undersea fiberoptic cables landing in Africa was expected to increase from about two active cables in 2001 to around 16 by the end of 2014.
* Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the world’s highest mobile phone usage rates.
* Mobile penetration in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase from 52 percent in 2012 to 79 percent in 2020.
* Mobile subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa are forecast to exceed 635 million by the end of 2014, and are predicted to rise to around 930 million by the end of 2019.
* Mobile broadband connections are now anticipated to quadruple from its 2012 figure to reach 160 million in 2016.
* Mobile Internet use in Africa will increase twenty-fold in the next five years, double the estimated growth rate in the rest of the world.
* The Internet can contribute up to $300 billion to Africa’s GDP by 2025, from an estimated $18 billion in 2013.
* In Africa, the proportion of web-browsing using mobile technology relative to fixed lines is the highest in the world.
* 56 percent of all Africans – more than 600 million people – are expected to own a mobile phone by 2014.
* Mobile innovation in Africa has fostered a new generation of technology entrepreneurs. Kenya now hosts iHub, a digital and physical open source center providing community resources to tech entrepreneurs to develop ideas and connect to investors.
* Silicon Valley venture capital funds are eyeing African investment opportunities in what is now being called Silicon Savannah.
* The African IT market is expected to grow from $8.5 billion to $12.5 billion by 2015.
* In Nigeria, the number of payments made by mobile phone more than doubled to 2.4 million in the first half of 2012 from the same period a year earlier, while Internet payments rose 9.3 percent, according to the country’s central bank.
