The Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa 2020

I've read over the Mobile Economy report by GSMA.

https://www.gsma.com/mobileeconomy/sub-saharan-africa/

Let me share the critical topics about that report, and I'll write down only important points in this article.

Executive Summary

1.477 M people in Sub-Saharan Africa subscribed to mobile services(45% of Africa)

2.Operators will invest $52 billion in infrastructure between 2019 and 2025

3.Smartphone connections in SSA will almost double to reach 678 million by 2025

4.Vodacom and MTN launched the first major 5G networks in SSA in 2020

5.Only 30M 5G connections in SSA by 2025(3% of mobile connections)

The mobile market in numbers

1.SSA will have more than 130M new subscribers by 2025

2.3G will remain the dominant technology

3.475M people will be using the mobile internet in SSA by 2025

4.SSA will have nearly 700M smartphone connections by 2025

5.Most of the countries will win a majority of smartphone users rate

Key trends shaping the digital landscape

1.30M mobile users will connect 5G network in SSA by 2025

2.Safaricom partnered with Visa whereas Airtel Africa partnered with Mastercard

3.45% in SSA lacks an ID compared with another areas

Mobile contributing to economic growth and social progress

1.Contribution of mobile technologies in SSA reached 9% of GDP($155B) in 2019

2.In 2019, 272M people in SSA were connected to the mobile internet(800M still remain offline)

Policy actions for digital and fiscal resilience

1.In SSA, mobile tax is on average 10% of revenue (compared with 4% in Europe)

2.In SSA, taxes on mobile ownership are 7% of income for the bottom 20% people

3.Reforming mobile taxation leads to an increase in connectivity, GDP and tax revenue

4.Digitisation of payments to governments(P2G) generate savings of 0.8–1.1% of GDP