{"id":68020,"date":"2014-06-06T03:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=68020"},"modified":"2014-06-06T03:28:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:28:45","slug":"ericsson-mobility-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=68020","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson mobility report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"mobile-internet-usage-to-incre\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Mobile internet usage to increase at twice the global rate in five years in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of Ericsson.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><b><i>Mobile internet use doubling year-on-year, with usage expected to increase 20 times in the next five years <\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>By 2017, 3G technology will outstrip 2G to become the region\u2019s dominant form of mobile connection<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>Ericsson predicts 930 million mobile subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2019, with 557m smartphone and 710m broadband subscriptions <\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, June 4, 2014\/ <b>&#8212; <\/b>Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsson.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ericsson.com<\/a>), a world leader in communications technology and services, has today revealed the scale of the region\u2019s ongoing data revolution with traffic growth doubling the past year. The June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Ericsson Mobility Report shows that in 2014 phone users accessed 76,000 TB (terabyte) of data per month, double the 2013\u00a0 figure of 37,500 TB per month. In 2015 the figures are expected to double again with mobile phone users accessing 147,000 TB per month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/image002.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68021\" alt=\"image002\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/image002-415x500.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rise of social media, content-rich apps and video content accessed from a new range of cheaper smartphones has prompted the rise. Consumers in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria are also increasingly using video TV and media services from their Smartphone\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fredrik Jejdling, Regional Head of Ericsson Sub-Saharan Africa, says: \u201cSub-Saharan Africa is currently undergoing a mobile digital revolution with consumers, networks and even media companies are wakening up the possibilities of 3G and 4G technology. We have seen the trend emerging over a few years but in the past twelve months the digital traffic has increased over 100% forcing us to revise our existing predictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the next five years, the Report\u2019s findings show that the voice call traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa will double and there will be an explosion in mobile data with usage in Sub-Saharan Africa growing 20 times between 2013 and 2019, twice the anticipated global expansion. By 2019 the report predicts that 75 per cent of mobile subscriptions will be internet inclusive (3G or 4G).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This growth has been predicted following the launch in 2014 of a number of smartphones for under $50 USD by a number of major device manufacturers allowing the rapid expansion of 3G and 4G technology across the region. The 2014 Report predicts that in just three years\u2019 time 3G technology will become the dominant technology across the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fredrik Jejdling, Regional Head of Ericsson Sub-Saharan Africa, says: \u201cThe rise of cheap smartphones will allow vast portions of the population \u2013 from middle classes in cities to small businesses in rural areas \u2013 access to mobile broadband. M-commerce can offer endless opportunities for entrepreneurs and we\u2019ve found that farmers are fans of mobile wallets \u2013 as well as teenagers wanting to watch music videos on their smartphone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ericsson regularly performs traffic measurements in over 100 live networks across the world and predictions have been made in collaboration with Ericsson ConsumerLab, utilising population, macroeconomic trends combined with the company\u2019s own anonymised data. Ericsson is the largest provider of managed services, building and improving the reach and efficacy of mobile networks, in Sub-Saharan Africa and globally.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile internet usage to increase at twice the global rate in five years in Sub-Saharan Africa Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":32889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,7154,7006,7010],"tags":[6186,18968],"class_list":["post-68020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ict-for-development","category-ict-in-education","category-technology","tag-ericsson","tag-mobile-internet-usage-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}