Zi Ran,

What is the current situation of mobile Internet in Kenya? Zi Ran: African countries with the fastest growth of mobile Internet are South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. Kenya had 47 million inhabitants at the end of 2016, with 38 million mobile phone users and a penetration rate of 89.2 percent. Users of smartphones account for 26 percent of the total. In addition, according to the Internet expert Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report, the Kenyan mobile network is the fastest in Africa, with a speed of 12.2 Mbps in the first half of 2017, ahead of South Africa (6.7 Mbps), Morocco (5.2 Mbps) and Nigeria (3.9 Mbps). This is the result of the development of submarine cables and a surge in the popularity of smartphones.