Type of Resource:
Research report

Year of Publication:
2017

Indicators:
- Challenges
- Solutions or Strategies
- Trends


Themes:
- Internet Access, Affordability And Use

Author(s): Alison Gillwald

Africa is undergoing rapid social and economic change as a result of the confluence of mobile and broadband technologies on the continent. Increased availability of mobile broadband, declining smartphone prices and the appeal of social networking have contributed to the rapid increase in Internet use. Although Internet penetration in most countries is still very low, more than 70 percent of Ugandan and 67 percent of Ethiopian Internet users first used the Internet on a mobile phone. In Tanzania, Namibia and Nigeria, half of the populations first used the Internet on a mobile phone

URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep05240?turn_away=true&Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=broadband&searchText=access&searchText=in&searchText=africa&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fed%3D2019%26amp%3BsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bsd%3D2013%26amp%3BQuery%3Dbroadband%2Baccess%2Bin%2Bafrica&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3Aa57f9363582cb9e88604ad90f734475d

Region of Study:
Africa,

Country of Study:
Africa,

Study Quality
Low