66% Mobile Broadband Adoption in Middle East, North Africa by 2020

Mobile broadband networks will support more than 66 percent of all mobile connections across the Arab States of the Middle East and North Africa by 2020, according to a new GSMA study.

The study predicts there will be 350 million 3G or 4G mobile broadband connections in the Arab States by 2020, accounting for 69 per cent of the region’s total connections by 2020, up from just 34 per cent at the end of 2014.

The number of smartphones connections in the region is forecast to almost triple between 2014 and 2020, reaching 327 million.