Africa: Flying Blind Into the Bright Lights of Africa's Data Future - Spotting the Known Unknowns

31 October 2014
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London — Africa's voice subscriber data may not always be reliable but it exists. The equivalent Internet data is extremely hard to find. Lack of data is equivalent of trying to cross a busy expressway in the complete dark. Russell Southwood looks at what's available and argues that in a data future involving more than the mobile operators, there's a crying need for regular data.

Fifteen years ago, the number of Africans connected to the Internet varied between hundreds in the smaller countries to thousands in the larger. Now the more developed markets in Africa have between 15-20% of the market using Internet.

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