16 May 2019

Mobile internet subscriptions in Botswana continue to increase in comparison with fixed internet, according to new data.

Statistics Botswana attributed the growth mainly to the rate at which data bundles were being purchased for mobile internet, specifically for social media use.

The latest figures showed that mobile internet subscriptions increased by 5.4 percent in the second quarter of 2018 with1,605,727 subscriptions – up from 1,523,545 subscriptions recorded in the previous quarter.

Although there was five per cent in the take-up of fixed internet subscriptions, up from 50,514 subscriptions recorded in the first quarter 2018 to 53,057 in the second, internet subscription on the whole remained low.