El próximo boom en telecos: África

El mercado de las telecomunicaciones parece estar casi saturado en Oriente medio, despues de años de alto crecimiento, el mercado esta maduro y la competencia cada vez es mayor, parece ser que el proximo mercado al hay que mirar es el Africa Subsahariana, donde hay una creciente clase media, y mucho por hacer:

Sub-Saharan Africa remains a major growth market and is the last frontier, with a vast amount of untapped potential, analysts say.

“There are huge opportunities in Africa,” says Matthew Reed, a senior analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media. “In the last few years there has been substantial economic growth in Africa and that is creating huge opportunities with massive changes under way. There is an increasing middle class, urbanisation, and infrastructure — though not entirely in place — provides an opportunity.”

In its World Economic Outlook report in April, the International Monetary Fund said sub-Saharan Africa has been “surprisingly resilient to the European slowdown, reflecting an ongoing redirection of its economic linkages toward Asia.” The region, whose growth has been helped by favourable commodity prices saw its economies grow by about 5 percent last year and is forecast to expand by 5.4 percent this year, according to the Washington-based organisation. That even outpaces growth in the Middle East and North Africa region.

“It is where the Arab world was 10 years ago,” Abbassi says.