14 June 2019

Less than a quarter (20 per cent) of the Togolese population uses mobile internet, according to recent data from the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA). 

The report also found that 19 per cent of the population, adults mostly, are covered by mobile broadband but cannot access it via their smartphones. 

In west Africa as a whole, 61 per cent of the population has no access to broadband even if the number of smartphone users is expected to double by 2025.  

At the close of 2018, the west African mobile industry officially employed 200,000 people and 800,000 informally. The sector contributed USD52bn to the region’s economy. That figure is expected to rise to nearly USD70bn in 2023, according to GSMA.