Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "3G, WiMAX, ADSL and the Future of African Broadband: Projections, Economics and Best Practices" report to its offering.

Building on an in-depth review of broadband dynamics in 30 African markets, this report provides broadband and 3G subscriber, revenue and Capex projections, as well as an analysis of the economics of mobile data in Africa, including demand, revenue, Opex and Capex.

African broadband business models have long been so dispiritingly brutal that it is hardly surprising that few private service providers have ever created any meaningful value out of them. The similarities with the African mobile voice market of the mid- to late nineties are uncanny - expensive services and devices and cream-skimming business models along with frustrating, persistent and maddeningly self-defeating regulatory roadblocks.

Research and Markets has reviewed Internet and broadband dynamics in 33 African markets and believe broadband services and applications are 12 to 24 months removed from a tipping point, a commercial inflexion point that would lead to a drastic increase in adoption and revenue generation. In essence, they argue that broadband, in its various forms, and other than perhaps, pay-TV, is the most significant opportunity for investment returns in the African TMT sector since the mobile voice boom.