330m Africans will own cellphones in 2008
Africa is projected to experience a 22 per cent jump in its mobile phone subscriber base during 2008, with the number of people owning a phone increasing from the current 270 million to 330 million.
The Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA) — a global trade association representing 700 GSM celullar operators in 215 countries — says mobile phone penetration will also rise by a corresponding 5 per cent from 28.78 per cent in 2007 to 33.9 per cent in 2008.
Addressing the Africa e-Government conference that ended in Kampala recently, Vitalis Kizito Olunga, chairman of GSM Africa, said the outlook remained positive, with mobile phone subscribers outnumbering fixed lines by a ratio of 15:1.
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