In April 2019 the global mobile population was 4 billion unique users.
Where the growth has come from?
48 percent of web views worldwide were mobile, driving this are markets that whent mobile first Asia and Africa. The African continent is interesting as Nigeria provided the highest rate of internet traffic from mobile devices followed by Kenya and Ghana.
America and Europe has the highest amount of users with mobile broadband subscriptions the penetration rate is around 90% with the global average around 69%.
Countries with the fastest mobile download speeds
What’s interesting about this graph compared to mobile usage African countries don’t feature on their. So as growth in mobile use has increased in African countries users are downloading at some of the slowest speeds on the globe.
Are App Downloads Slowly Dying?
As users continue to download apps the trend sees no sign of stopping.
African Country Speeds
A 5gb movie takes around 22 hours to download in Equatorial Guinea as a benchmark ranked worst in Africa in comparison in Taiwan 8 minutes.
Facebook and Google are leading an infrastructure project to lay undersea cable with 20 times capacity to help facilitate and increase in speeds