Revenue from mobile data will explode beyond a CAGR of 20% in the populous markets of Nigeria, Egypt and DRC

Wednesday 4 June 2014, Amsterdam

Report description overview:

The new report, now available on ASDReports, Mobile Broadband in Africa and the Middle East: LTE Profit Drivers and Outlook tackles the question of how LTE is positioned in Africa and the Middle East and what its growth drivers and consequences for mobile broadband are. By purchasing this report you will find a detailed list of existing LTE deployments, projections on mobile broadband uptake over the next five years, as well as concrete conclusions and recommendations regarding the future of LTE and mobile broadband in Africa and the Middle East.

The difference:

• The report provides a comprehensive examination of service provider business models around LTE in Africa and the Middle East market to help executives fully understand market dynamics to determine what works and what doesn’t.
• This report provides a five-year forecast of LTE uptake in Africa and the Middle East, enabling you to effectively position your companies for growth opportunities and emerging trends in demand for your products.
• The report discusses concrete opportunities in the LTE and mobile broadband market in Africa and the Middle East, providing a number of actionable recommendations.

Report highlights:

LTE is commercially present in about 20 countries in Africa and the Middle East. In the wealthy Gulf countries almost all mobile operators use LTE as their new basis of competition for mobile subscriptions, whereas in Africa the use of LTE is mostly limited to fixed-use cases for broadband access, following WiMAX migrations.

Mobile operators in Africa are waiting for the digital dividend, scheduled for mid-2015, and the release of frequencies in the sub-1GHz spectrum before aggressive LTE deployments. Until then, pure broadband LTE companies have a window of opportunity to expand their subscriber bases, while Internet companies, such as Microsoft and Google, will have time to lobby for the utilization of TV white spaces.

Although network sharing or wholesale LTE networks are possibilities, unfavorable competitive dynamics in most AME markets hamper the development of such cost-effective deployment models. In the Gulf markets, LTE will account for 30% of mobile subscriptions by 2018, while the figure will be in the 2-5% range across African markets due to late entries by mobile operators. This is in line with African regulators who raise concerns that the mobile operators should gain more experience with 3G.