Sub-Sahara's mobile revolution: twice as fast as the rest of the world
• Mobile internet use doubling year-on-year, with usage expected to increase 20 times in the next five years • By 2017, 3G technology will outstrip 2G to become the region’s dominant form of mobile connection• Ericsson predicts 930 million mobile subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2019, with 557m smartphone and 710m broadband subscriptions Ericsson today revealed the scale of sub-Sahara's ongoing data revolution with traffic growth doubling the past year.