Mobile : African market, more important than US and EU’s

The African market currently counts more than 650 million of mobile telephony subscribers, the fact that make Africa ‘‘a market more important than the US and EU’s in this sector,’’ said Monday a World Bank-African Development Bank report. Developed with the support of the African Union, this paper presents new data on information and communications technology which are now’’ to revolutionize development in Africa.’’ Some 68,000 km of submarine cables and more than 615,000 km of national backbone networks have been installed across the continent, greatly increasing the connectivity in Africa, while the bandwidth open to more than one (1) billion citizens Africa is 20 times larger today than in 2008, note WB and ADB. Concerning Algeria, the report indicates that the number of mobile phone subscriptions has more than doubled in six years increasing from 13.6 million in 2005 up to 2