{"id":283630,"date":"2019-08-09T06:21:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T10:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZ2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmpvdXJuYWxkdWNhbWVyb3VuLmNvbS9lbi9ldGhpb3BpYS1uaWdlcmlhLXRvLWxlYWQtc3ViLXNhaGFyYW4tYWZyaWNhLWluLW1vYmlsZS1zdWJzY3JpYmVycy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-17T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:37:13","slug":"gsma-2019-ethiopia-nigeria-mobile-subscriber-growth-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/283630","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia was forecast to add 18 million mobile subscribers by 2025, second only to Nigeria in Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethiopia was expected to add 18 million unique mobile subscribers by 2025, second only to Nigeria's 31 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a 2019 forecast by the mobile industry group GSMA.<\/p>\n

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An Ethio Telecom building, photographed on February 22, 2016. (Francisco Anzola \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0) [file photo]<\/em><\/p>\n

The GSMA published the 2019 Sub-Saharan Africa edition of its Mobile Economy report at its Mobile 360 \u2013 Africa conference in Kigali, Rwanda, in July 2019, and APA News reported the findings in August.<\/p>\n

More than 160 million new unique subscribers would be added across the region by 2025, taking the total to 623 million, about half the population, from 456 million, or 44 percent, in 2018, the GSMA said. After Nigeria and Ethiopia, the largest additions were expected in the Democratic Republic of Congo with 15 million, Tanzania with 10 million and Kenya with 9 million, The Guardian of Nigeria reported.<\/p>\n

The report said Nigeria and Ethiopia would record the fastest growth rates in the region, at 19 percent and 11 percent respectively, as large numbers of young people reached adulthood and owned a mobile phone for the first time.<\/p>\n

Mobile technologies and services generated almost $150 billion of economic value in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2018, about 8.6 percent of the region's gross domestic product, and were forecast to reach almost $185 billion, or 9.1 percent of GDP, by 2023, the GSMA said.<\/p>\n

The region had 774 million mobile connections in 2018, excluding cellular internet-of-things devices, a figure forecast to reach 1.04 billion by 2025.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> GSMA press release<\/a>, GSMA: The Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa 2019 (PDF)<\/a>, The Guardian (Nigeria)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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