• Subscribers spend over 2% of income on telephone services
• Nigeria’s smartphone penetration hits 140m next year
In 2015, the number of mobile broadband subscriptions per hundred people in Africa was estimated at just over 10 per cent compared to a world average of about 47 per cent. By 2019, this figure had increased to 33.1 per cent, compared to the then world average of 75 per cent, however, these figures obscure wide variation between countries.