In Botswana 4G subscriptions will soon be the fastest growing mobile generation in the country.
4G users will grow by 71.5 percent between 2016-2021 in the sparsely populated southern African nation.
In comparison, 2G subscriptions will drop by 8.6 percent over the same time period, and 3G’s will grow at just 8.3 percent.
[verdict_chart id=”15046″]All three of Botswana’s mobile operators have launched 4G services – Orange and MTN-owned Mascom back in 2015, and state-owned BTC recently in April 2017.
BTC has earmarked $8.6m to invest in 4G and to expand 3G networks.
Despite the growth of 4G, however, it will still be the smallest technology family in terms of absolute numbers.
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By GlobalDataThis is because operators will continue to grow their 3G networks, and 2G will still remain popular. Also 4G enabled handsets are also expensive, making them off limit to a large part of the population.
