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Dashboard, Africa 2012

Africa has overtaken Asia-Pacific as the world's fastest growing region in terms of cellular connections and, as our new 'Dashboard' highlights, is reaching new milestones in the mobile industry.

To visualise the latest industry trends as they happen, Dashboards have been added to the Wireless Intelligence qualitative research agenda.

Dashboards highlight specific regional trends in a concise manner and will be part of a new series of analysis.

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Latest reports

The effect of mobile broadband on operator revenue (March 2012) Is mobile broadband ARPU making up for the decline in voice?

Global LTE network forecasts and assumptions - one year on (December 2011) Over 200 live LTE networks forecast by 2015 using 38 spectrum frequency combinations

How pricing dynamics affect mobile usage (September 2011) Price sensitivity and talk time trends in developed and developing economies

The global cellular industry balance sheet (July 2011) Financial trends in developed and developing economies

Regulators set the platform for large-scale LTE rollout across Europe (June 2011) New study highlights LTE spectrum allocation and auction plans across the European Union

Operators starting to win battle against churn in Western Europe (April 2011) Customer loyalty linked to stabilisation in pricing, innovative tariffs and smartphone popularity

Global mobile connections

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Interpolated real-time connections.
Source: Wireless Intelligence

Market data: Connections

Top ten mobile markets (countries) by connections (Q4 2011).

1	China	975.7M
2	India	905.4M
3	USA	340.6M
4	Indonesia	248.1M
5	Brazil	246.4M
6	Russia	230.2M
7	Vietnam	136.6M
8	Japan	131.6M
9	Pakistan	114.8M
10	Germany	113.8M

Market data: ARPU

Top ten mobile markets by US$ ARPU/month (Q3 2011).

1	Canada	$60.2
2	Switzerland	$60.1
3	Japan	$59.9
4	Norway	$52.2
5	USA	$49.4
6	Ireland	$49.2
7	France	$46.4
8	Kuwait	$41.9
9	Netherlands	$39.6
10	Singapore	$37.3

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Wireless Intelligence is the definitive source of mobile operator data, analysis and forecasts, delivering the most accurate and complete set of industry metrics available. Relied on by a customer base of over 700 of the world's mobile operators, device vendors, equipment manufacturers and leading financial and consultancy firms, the data set is the most scrutinised in the industry. With over 5 million individual data points – updated daily – the service provides coverage of the performance of all 940 operators and 640 MVNOs across 2,200 networks, 55 groups and 225 countries worldwide.