Africa - Fixed-line, Internet and Broadband Statistics

Dublin, Ireland, January 14, 2013--While being the world's most rapidly growing market for mobile telephony, Africa is also home to some of the fastest growing fixed-line markets in the world. Roughly half of the continents 54 countries had positive growth in the fixed-line sector in 2011 and at least seven of them saw double digit growth rates, while in some of the other markets fixed lines are rapidly being replaced by mobile phones, according to a new Research and Markets Report entitled “Africa - Fixed-line, Internet and Broadband Statistics.”