{"id":8225,"date":"2012-11-13T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2012-11-13T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:57:24","slug":"africas-wireless-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8225","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s Wireless Gold Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"showvisitedlinks\">It&#8217;s no surprise to find multiple network expansion investments, given the rate of mobile growth in the region: According to a new report issued by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/complink_redirect.asp?vl_id=7572\" target=\"new\">GSM Association (GSMA)<\/a> , sub-Saharan Africa is &#8220;the fastest-growing mobile market in the world,&#8221; with an average annual growth rate of 44 percent since 2000. <strong>The region now has 475 million mobile connections, compared with 12.3 million fixed lines.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=227005&amp;\">Africa&#8217;s Wireless Gold Rush &#8211; 4G\/LTE &#8211; Telecom News Analysis &#8211; Light Reading Mobile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to find multiple network expansion investments, given the rate of mobile growth in the region: According to a new report issued by the GSM Association (GSMA) , sub-Saharan Africa is &#8220;the fastest-growing mobile market in the world,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[974,510,103,227],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-africa","tag-gsm","tag-market-analysis","tag-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}