L'accès au téléphone mobile devrait doubler en Afrique d'ici 2020. LE CAP, Afrique du Sud (Reuters) - Près de 80% des 800 millions d'habitants de l'Afrique sub-saharienne devraient avoir accès à des téléphones portables d'ici 2020, le double du taux de pénétration actuel, estime la fédération professionnelle des télécoms GSMA.
Mais pour atteindre cet objectif, des aides publiques seront nécessaires pour que la couverture puisse atteindre les zones les plus reculées, selon cette association qui représente les principaux opérateurs de téléphonie mobile dans le monde. En effet la progression des services mobiles, plus gourmands en bande passante que les simples communications vocales, dépend notamment de l'attribution par les autorités de bandes de fréquences suffisamment larges, a déclaré Mortimer Hope, directeur de GSMA pour la zone Afrique. "Les services mobiles en sont encore à leurs balbutiements mais nous aimerions qu'ils soient accessibles partout où les communications vocales sont déjà possibles. Technology and the sharing economy. An African perspective. Know Which Is The Most Googled Thing in Your Country. Bancarisation - Afrique subsaharienne : la téléphonie mobile change la donne. The mobile revolution in Africa.
The influx of mobile phone has enhanced ease of access across the world - no more so than in Africa...
The influx of mobile phone has enhanced ease of access across the world - communication is more easily facilitated as practically everybody is a phone call, email or tweet away. The virtual world is one of full of opportunities, which might not easily be accessible in real life. The penetration of mobile in Africa has been on the rise, largely from the use of feature phones. Now smartphones are becoming more predominant. L'Afrique, nouvelle frontière du numérique. L’économie numérique se développe rapidement dans le monde entier.
Les nouvelles tendances technologiques , telles que les solutions mobiles, les réseaux sociaux , le cloud computing offrent une nouvelle gamme de possibilités de services dans l’économie du savoir, ce qui constitue un potentiel pour la création de valeurs. Avec l’un des taux de croissance les plus enviables et le second plus important marché (en terme de volume) du mobile après l’Asie, quelle stratégies mettre en place pour adopter des technologies numériques considérées comme facteur déterminant de la croissance dans les années à venir. Comment saisir les opportunités de l’économie numérique pour un développement inclusif, améliorer les opérations commerciales , inventer de nouveaux modèles économiques, créer des emplois et profiter de la croissance à venir?
Plus de 53 millions d’africains ont un profil sur Facebook. Quelques tendances à prendre en compte. Could African Technology Power Mind-Controlled Phones? Deloitte dévoile les principales tendances TIC 2015 en Afrique et en Tunisie. Deloitte a dévoilé, lors d’une rencontre organisée le jeudi 26 mars au technopark El Ghazala, son étude mondiale dédiée aux tendances 2015 du secteur des technologies, médias et télécommunications en Afrique.
Selon le cabinet international, l’année 2015 coïncidera avec l’accélération des ventes de smartphones associée à un fort développement de l’accès au haut débit ainsi qu’à une prolifération de la consommation des technologies et contenus numériques tels que le commerce électronique, le paiement mobile et la numérisation des contenus. «Le marché du smartphone va connaitre une croissance de plus de 40% en 2015 avec 70 millions de smartphones qui seront vendus en Afrique. Dans ce contexte, Slim Ghariani, DG de la société Ericsson Tunisie, a évoqué un projet de fleet management entrepris par Ericsson qui concernera le transport public tunisien : «Ce projet va se faire en partenariat public-privé.
Voici les 9 grandes tendances qui marqueront l’année 2015, selon le cabinet Deloitte : With Icow And M-Farm, Smartphones Reboot African Agriculture. Rapport: L'Afrique reste "la reine" du Mobile Banking. #Brève La GSMA a annoncé au cours du Mobile World Congress à Barcelone qu’à l’échelle mondiale, l’on dénombrait plus de 100 millions de comptes mobile money actifs et 53% d’entre eux se trouvait en Afrique subsaharienne. « En 2014, il y a eu une une forte augmentation du nombre d’envois de fonds internationaux via mobile money, principalement grâce à l’introduction d’un nouveau modèle qui utilise le mobile money à la fois comme moyen d’envoi et de réception », indique le rapport de 2014 du GSMA sur les services financiers mobiles pour les populations non bancarisées.
Africa accounts for 52% of world m-payments transactions. The number of smartphones in Africa is expected to grow by over 40 percent this year and to double to pass 350 million units by 2017, according to research from Deloitte.
‘The market is stimulated by strong growth in African economies and catalysed by the arrival of low-cost smartphones that are democratising internet access,’ writes Deloitte francophone Africa executive Karim Koundi. He calculates that the smartphone market will grow by more than 40 percent this year, with 70 million units being sold across the continent. Until now smartphones have only had a 15 percent penetration in Africa, where lower-spec feature phones have been the norm. Other factors contributing to smartphone growth include improved coverage, lower connection costs and the boom in mobile money. M-payment providers to earn USD 1.5 bln in Africa by 2019. Mobile money providers will earn an estimated USD 1.5 billion in fees from such things as bill payments and sending money to relatives in sub-Saharan Africa by 2019, according to the Boston Consulting Group.
Although mobile financial services are emerging all over the world, sub-Saharan Africa’s unique circumstances, a combination of a mostly “unbanked” population and heavy mobile-phone penetration, have turned the region into an early adopter of mobile banking and a test bed for the technology’s potential. Eight of the ten countries that make the most use of mobile financial services are in Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of active accounts (43 %). Revenues will grow as Africa’s “unbanked” use their phones to pay bills, save money, and take out loans.
Rapport: Le Mobile Banking africain pèsera près de 900 milliards Fcfa dans 4 ans. A la une D’après une étude publiée par le cabinet international de conseil en stratégie BCG (Boston Consulting Group), alors que les Africains utiliseront leurs mobiles pour payer leurs factures ou envoyer de l’argent à leurs proches, le marché florissant du Mobile Banking pourrait atteindre une valeur de 1.5 milliards de dollars dans 4 ans.
Le rapport soutient que les Africains cherchent des moyens plus adaptés pour emprunter et économiser de l’argent et que le mobile permettra à plusieurs de profiter de ces services pour la première fois. En effet, bien que des offres de Mobile Banking émergent un peu partout sur la planète, le marché Africain présente des caractéristiques spécifiques. Firefox OS to help Orange boost smartphone use in Africa. Business News of Monday, 2 March 2015 Source: pcworld.com Orange is hoping a sub-US$40 bundle of a Firefox OS smartphone with calls, messages and data will help boost smartphone usage in Africa and the Middle East.
‘Africa’s Internet Penetration to Hit 50% by 2025’, Articles. Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Channels Television, Mr.
John Momoh Obinna Chima The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Channels Television, Mr. John Momoh, has predicted that the level of internet penetration in Africa will rise to 50 per cent by 2025. Internet penetration in the continent currently stands at 16 per cent. Momoh stated this while presenting an address titled: “Africa’s Media –The Future,” at a cocktail organised by members of KPMG Nigeria Alumni held in Lagos recently. Forget GDP growth and oil wells, Africa's real fortune lies in the knowledge economy. AFRICA watchers, critics and observers seem to have entered phase two of the “Africa Rising” narrative: Questions are now being raised about whether the continent’s dramatic surge in economic growth is sustainable, given that most African countries export basic commodities such as unprocessed agricultural products, minerals and crude oil. So far, the impressive numbers have been driven by high commodity prices, macroeconomic reforms and a better business environment, but, as the African Centre for Economic Transformation argues, growth is not enough—what is needed more is greater diversification, export competitiveness, more productivity from workers, and better use of technology.
Mobile Money : un marché de 250 millions de clients en Afrique subsaharienne d'ici à 2019. Le service de paiement mobile M-Pesa, développé par Safaricom, est aujourd'hui l'un des plus populaires sur le continent. © AFP Selon une étude du cabinet Boston Consulting Group, en Afrique subsaharienne, les services financiers sur mobile pourraient rapporter au moins 1,5 milliard de dollars d'ici à 2019 et viser un marché de 250 millions de personnes.
En dépit de l'effervescence autour de la montée en puissance des services bancaires et de paiement mobile en Afrique, le "mobile money" n'en est qu'à ses tous débuts dans la région. Et c'est le moment pour les banques et les opérateurs de téléphonie mobile de bâtir une stratégie gagnante, qui anticipe la croissance à venir de ce secteur. Google Image Result for. Bitcoin’s Digital Currency Could Help Many in Africa Gain Their Financial Independence. Mobile commerce changes the game for retailers in Africa. | Jan. 27, 2015, 11:06 a.m. Image: By BiztechAfrica Mobile commerce changes the game for retailers in Africa By Jaco Barnard, Head of Retail at Wipro Ltd, South Africa. New technologies such as cloud computing are revolutionising the way people do business across the globe. How Mobile Phone Data Reveals Food Consumption Patterns in Central Africa. An increasingly important side-effect of the mobile phone revolution is that the big data it generates has become a high-resolution microscope for examining the nature of society.
Various teams have shown how mobile phone data reveals patterns of commuting, criminal activity and even human reproductive strategies. Now Adeline Decuyper at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and a few pals, say they have used mobile phone usage patterns in a Central African country to determine food consumption patterns. They say the work suggests that mobile phone data could be a valuable tool for monitoring food security in low and middle-income countries. Decuyper and co began with two datasets. The first is a ground truth survey of food consumption among 7500 households in a Central African country throughout 2012, carried out by the World Food Programme. Bringing the ultra-broadband revolution to Africa. | Jan. 15, 2015, 8:36 a.m.
Image: By BiztechAfrica Bringing the ultra-broadband revolution to Africa By Michel Combes, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent. Data Centre Africa 2015. DUBLIN, Dec. 08, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Research and Markets ( has announced the addition of the "Data Centre Africa 2015" report to their offering. This report is based on a unique survey of 137 Data Centre facilities from 65 Data Centre providers in nine of the largest Country Markets in Africa (including Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia & Uganda) and provides average rack pricing per market & Data Centre capacity in square metres.
Mobile Transactions Around The World. Mobile transaction trends are tricky to track, particularly on a global scale. Generally, we know that the rate of mobile adoption is increasing all over the world, but mobile as a way to make payments instead of a card in a physical store is still in its infancy. Mobile as a driver of e-commerce is growing as well, as tablets and phones make access to the Internet convenient for everyone and available for many for whom PCs were not either affordable or accessible. In fact, for the mobile device is not only a catalyst for economic growth across emerging countries with otherwise limited payment options, it is a financial lifeline for many whose access to financial services was simply non-existent. UBA Twitter notification service goes live In Africa. CUSTOMERS of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc in the 18 African countries where the bank has operations can now receive transaction alerts on their twitter handle as direct messages.
It is an innovative first from the pan-African bank and currently the only bank in Africa to offer this service. “What we have done is take social media banking to a new level. Twitter is increasingly becoming a popular means of communication especially among the young adults. As a highly innovative bank, we are giving the Millennials, who are increasingly banking with us an option to get transaction alerts on their preferred platform” said UBA’s Director, Information Technology, Rasheed Adegoke, Before now customers can only receive transaction alerts as text messages on their mobile phones and as e-mails. UBA customers seeking to receive twitter powered transaction alerts through their twitter account should visit the UBA Group website or the UBA twitter page to register.
MobileData to transform Africa's mobile transactions with cloud-based TradeSwitch. Andre Louw, CEO at MobileData. Global South Africa-based payment facilitation and token distribution technology solutions provider, MobileData, introduces TradeSwitch to the continent, a service delivery platform that enables smart service delivery, mobile device management and business process automation. Infographic: Mobile Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of unique mobile subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa will pass the half billion mark in 2020 as mobile services become increasingly affordable and accessible to millions of currently unconnected citizens across the region. According to a report by GSMA the region has been the world’s fastest-growing mobile region over the last five years in terms of both unique mobile subscribers and mobile connections, and is forecast to continue to lead global growth through 2020.
“The mobile industry has transformed the lives of millions of people across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing not just connectivity but also an essential gateway to a wide range of healthcare, education and financial services,” said Anne Bouverot, Director General of the GSMA. The six largest markets, in order of size, are Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, which together account for over half of the region’s unique mobile subscriber base. Video on Demand to drive requirement for carrier neutral POPs in Africa. | Jan. 5, 2015, 12:25 p.m. Image: By BiztechAfrica Video on Demand to drive requirement for carrier neutral POPs in Africa By Eckart Zollner, Business Development Manager, The Jasco Group Video on Demand (VoD), the ability to access specific video content at a convenient time and place on a convenient device through the Internet, has previously been an unfeasible technology in much of Africa as it requires large amounts of affordable, available and reliable bandwidth in order to operate.
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