Sub-Saharan Africa has been the fastest-growing region in the world for mobile phone users in the past five years, but companies now face many challenges as they seek further growth, a new report said Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Mobile subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa have increased 18% a year for the past five years to total 253 million as of June 2013, said GSMA, a body that represents mobile operators world-wide, in a report. That figure represents a 31% penetration rate. GSMA forecasts the region's mobile users will reach 346 million by 2017.
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