Impact of online communication services on the telecommunications market in Africa – White Paper

List of tables and figures

Tables
Table 1: Comparison of cost to send 1 SMS versus cost to buy 1 MB of data (local currency)
Table 2: List of zero rated services by South African operators, H1 2016

Figures
Figure 1: Ratio of on-net/off-net traffic for mobile voice (2016 for Senegal and Kenya, 2015 for South Africa)
Figure 2: Ratio of on-net/off-net traffic for SMS (2016 for Senegal and Kenya, 2015 for South Africa)
Figure 3: Domestic mobile voice traffic evolution
Figure 4: Mobile voice revenues evolution (in million USD)
Figure 5: Cheapest mobile products (OECD 40 calls/60 SMS basket) for South African operators (ZAR)
Figure 6: Overview of reduction in MTR and its consequences to the voice market
Figure 7: Impacts of fiscal and regulation evolutions in Senegal in 2016
Figure 8: Evolution of International mobile call traffic (million minutes), and weight of international call traffic over total mobile voice traffic (%) in Senegal and Kenya
Figure 9: Evolution of domestic SMS traffic (million unit)
Figure 10: Evolution of SMS revenues (million USD)
Figure 11: Evolution of revenue per SMS (USD)
Figure 12: Mobile broadband as a percentage of service revenues
Figure 13: Share of revenues of mobile broadband in mobile activities
Figure 14: Evolution of mobile data (mobile broadband + messaging) total revenues
Figure 15: Just 4 You, a personalised package offer from Vodacom South Africa
Figure 16: Opportunities created by online services according to MTN Ghana
Figure 17: MTC revenue breakdown by segment, million NAD, 2010-2015
Figure 18: Share of online communication services in broadband traffic in Africa
Figure 19: Active mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants
Figure 20: Smartphone penetration in 2015
Figure 21: Direct and indirect GDP contribution of the mobile ecosystem in Africa
Figure 22: On-net domestic voice (million minutes) and on-net domestic SMS traffic (million SMS), 2011-2016
Figure 23: Market shares in volume
Figure 24: Safaricom monthly ARPU (KES), broken down by activity segment, 2011-2016
Figure 25: Evolution of share of mobile data revenue over total mobile service revenue, Vodacom and MTN
Figure 26: Growth rates of total telecom services and GDP in South Africa, 2011-2015
Figure 27: Indexed evolution of voice and SMS traffic for Vodacom, 2011-2016
Figure 28: Voice and SMS basket and 1 GB basket prices in South Africa, Q2 2016 (ZAR)
Figure 29: Evolution of market shares in South Africa, 2012-2016
Figure 30: Evolution of alternative online communication messaging solutions in South Africa
Figure 31: Evolution of active users for Mxit, BBM, WhatsApp and WeChat in South Africa
Figure 32: Volume of national SMS and international incoming traffic
Figure 33: Market share evolutions in Senegal
Figure 34: Growth rates of Senegal GDP and Sonatel revenues
Figure 35: Orange mobile ARPU
Figure 36: 1 GB basket prices for major African telcos, 4Q 2014
Figure 37: Mobile data service revenues for the EU5 countries, 2010-2020