Key providers covered in the report include MTC (Celtel), MTN, Millicom, Atlantique Telecom, Orascom, Orange, Vodacom, Comium Mobile and Wataniya Telecom.

Key takeaways of this new report:-

• Identifies new licensees and market entrants in 2007
• Forecast of privatisations that are likely to occur in 2007
• Insight into the economic benefits of mobile phone penetration in Africa
• List of barriers to mobile phone usage across the continent
• The importance of micro-finance, phone sharing and reduced handset costs
• A Score Card assessment of the most attractive country markets
• The importance of mobile money transfer services and m-banking
• Risk factors and critical success factors determining investment in African mobile
• Forecasts of subscriber numbers and penetration rates from 2006 to 2011 by country and overall

The report details the growth in mobile ownership, the challenges of growth and the criticality of a pan-African solution and development of ?One Network? economies of scale. Warning that growth will only occur through regulatory support of more operator licenses, it also proposes the need for ?mobile-friendly? policies. This in turn will speed the deployment of mobile services in the poorest countries who are discovering that mobile penetration can be used to jump-start wider economic growth.

In conjunction with the new Mobile Tariffs Africa Report, operators, regulators and investors can speedily grasp the growing opportunities, deployment and current pricing regime for mobile businesses in Africa.