Smartphone explosion doubles internet uptake

Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Mobile internet subscriptions jumped 87 percent in 2013

The proliferation of smartphones has almost doubled individual internet subscriptions in Botswana, figures released by Statistics Botswana show.

According to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Statistics Report released this week, individual internet subscriptions jumped 86.7 percent in 2013, largely due to a similarly huge 87.6 percent jump in mobile internet subscriptions.

The mobile internet growth far outweighed the rise in fixed internet subscriptions, which grew by 47 percent in the period.

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