The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in the Middle East and North Africa for Q4 2022.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Sub-Saharan Africa for Q4 2022.

The journey to 5G has started in Africa and is gathering pace across the region. 5G network ecosystem players in the region must find ways to deliver cost-effective and efficient 5G networks with an implementation strategy that balances investment and value creation.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in the Middle East and North Africa for Q3 2022.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Sub-Saharan Africa for Q3 2022.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in the Middle East and North Africa for Q2 2022. It also examines FWA momentum being built in Saudi Arabia and Oman and outlines the opportunity for 5G at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Finally, the analysis showcases the breadth of GSMA Intelligence data by providing country-level KPIs for mobile connections, net additions, technology splits and operator financials.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Sub-Saharan Africa for Q2 2022.

This analysis outlines the findings of a GSMA survey of national regulatory authorities and mobile operators in Sub-Saharan Africa to understand the impact of TTMS implementations in the region. It concludes that governments need to reassess their approach to telecoms traffic monitoring, with a view to utilising secure, more efficient and cost-effective methods in line with international best practices.

To understand the opportunities of 5G in Africa, in the context of the region's connectivity and socioeconomic landscape, the GSMA, in collaboration with the ITU, conducted a survey of key stakeholders to capture on-the-ground perspectives of the 5G era in countries across the region. The insights in this report have been generated from analysis of anonymised and aggregated responses to the 5G Africa Survey, as well as GSMA Intelligence data and other related market surveys.

As countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the rest of the world, transition into a post-pandemic economic recovery phase, mobile connectivity is set to play a crucial role in defining the 'new normal'.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in the Middle East and North Africa for Q1 2022.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Sub-Saharan Africa for Q1 2022.

As countries bring the pandemic under control, a priority for governments in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) is to drive economic recovery and promote sustainable development. Digital services and technologies will be crucial to realising this objective, by stimulating economic growth, mobilising the workforce and enabling industrial efficiencies.

This report shines a light on informal economic opportunities created directly in the mobile industry value chain. Between December 2020 and February 2021, GSMA Mobile for Development conducted interviews and surveys with young people in six Sub-Saharan African countries working directly and informally in the mobile industry.

The mobile industry in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to play a crucial role in the response to Covid-19. Mobile operators have implemented measures to support vulnerable communities including offering discounts on mobile tariffs and providing digital content and tools to help people and businesses get online. By the end of 2020, 495 million people subscribed to mobile services in Sub-Saharan Africa, representing 46% of the region's population – an increase of almost 20 million on 2019.

Mobile technology is a key driver of e-commerce services in Central Africa. As well as being the primary platform used to access the internet, mobile technology is facilitating online payments through mobile money, helping to address the challenge of low penetration of bank cards and the risks associated with cash-on-delivery. This report identifies key areas where action is required in Central Africa to increase access to digital services in general and e-commerce services in particular.

This edition of Region in Focus analyses key market trends and developments in Sub-Saharan Africa for the first quarter of 2021, including insights into recent technology, regulatory and competition developments. The analysis also explores the increasing competition in Ethiopia, the growth of digital financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa and the recent wave of activity in the tower market in the region.

This edition of Region in Focus analyses key market trends and developments in MENA for the fourth quarter of 2020, including insights into recent technology, regulatory and competition developments. We also take a look at how operators are increasingly exploring new uses cases for 5G, the growing importance of sustainability and the impact Covid-19 has had on customer engagement.

The GSMA and the World Bank have developed a study to analyse the welfare impact of mobile broadband based on data from Nigeria, the largest mobile market and economy in Africa. The analysis shows that the deployment of mobile broadband infrastructure has played a significant role in increasing household welfare and reducing poverty in Nigeria.

This edition of Region in Focus analyses key market trends and developments in Sub-Saharan Africa for Q3 2020, including insights into recent technology, regulatory and competition developments. We also explore early insights from 5G in South Africa and examine the state of streaming video content and cloud services in Africa.