Table of Contents

Table of contents

Key messages

Pitfalls and potential

Ovum view

The scramble for Africa

Regional overview

Africa: macroeconomic conditions
Mobile penetration and subscriber growth in Africa
African regulatory environment
African mobile market: drivers and barriers

Table of figures

Figure 1 Mobile penetration in Middle East & Africa region 2007–2012
Figure 2 Proportion of mobile operators by size (end of 2007)
Table 1 Examples of transactions in Africa (not exhaustive)
Figure 3 Gini index of economic distribution
Figure 4 Fastest-growing African countries (growth of mobile subscribers 2007-2008E)
Figure 5 Africa & Middle East connections forecast 2007–2012
Figure 6 African countries by number of mobile operators
Figure 6 Mobile base-station power generator usage cost