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Nine Months That Rebuilt Nigeria's Telecoms Market- And The Ceilings The Numbers Ran Into
Between July 2025 and April 2026, Nigeria's operators added 16.4 million active lines and pushed broadband past 50 per cent for the first time. In the same window, national data consumption fell. Both are true. And that gap between them is the story.
Connectivity Is The New P&L
South Africa's 2026 ICT numbers read as an early-warning system for every African technology leader. It’s ICT sector grew just 0.8 per cent last year, and every rand of that growth came from connectivity. Beneath that flat number is a volcanic reallocation of value. Mobile traffic rose 21.5 per cent while mobile revenue fell 7.9 per cent. SMS revenue collapsed 37.9 per cent. Fibre subscriptions jumped 22 per cent. Usage and revenue have decoupled, and the value operators are shedding is migrating to platforms, cloud and commerce, most of them global.
The Deeper Cut: What's Hiding In The Tables of Kenya's Telecoms Data
A mobile-money agent boom, an ISP reshuffle, a satellite operator that already owns a tenth of the fast-broadband tier, and the real author of the quarter's biggest number. Three-quarters of the Communications Authority data is mined beneath the headline numbers.
The Leadership
There is what governments say about technology, and there is what they fund. The two rarely match.
The Year Ahead Report
Three themes dominated: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and policy constraints.
Africa Cybersecurity Landscape 2026
Africa’s cybersecurity environment in 2026 is shaped by five structural realities. These realities define where exposure concentrates, how disruption escalates, and what leadership must prioritise next.
CIO Africa Navy 2026 Technology Adoption
Winning in 2026 will not be about having the most ambitious technology roadmap; it will be about how quickly CIOs can adapt when that roadmap breaks. Across African enterprises, volatility in markets, regulation, cyber risk, and AI capability is forcing technology leaders to make faster, higher-stakes decisions with less margin for error.
MegaTrends Report 2025
In 2025, the defining question for African enterprise leaders is no longer what technology to adopt, but how to turn digital complexity into sustained business value.
MegaTrends Report 2023
2023 was the year Africa’s enterprises stopped talking about transformation and started building it. Inside, you’ll see the early moves that separated future leaders from the rest, the first large-scale cloud migrations, the first serious AI pilots, and the first signs of cybersecurity maturity. Download to see the decisions that set the stage for Africa’s current digital leaders, and the lessons still shaping the market.
MegaTrends Report 2024
To understand how African technology leaders are driving growth, efficiency, and resilience through digital transformation, dx⁵ conducted its 2024 MegaTrends Study, anchored by data from the CIO100 Survey and in-depth analysis of over 300 enterprise projects across the continent.
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