Too many questions

• 140M new mobile subscribers in Q4 2012

• Data traffic grew by 28% between Q3 and Q4 2012.

• Global mobile penetration reached 89 percent in Q4 2012

• 15-20% of the worldwide installed base of mobile phone subscriptions uses smartphones

Facts

• 75% of all new phones in Asia and Africa

• There are now twice as many mobile money users in Africa than there are Facebook users in region

• More than 30 million people undertook 224.2 million transactions in June 2012

• Nigeria is in the top 10 mobile markets on the planet in numbers of subscribers: +5 million in Q4 2012

Emerging Markets

things change fast

trends

M-PAYMENTS & NFC

Mobile coupons & wallets

Marketing will change

HTML5 vs Native apps

How difficult is to implement BYOD

Carriers vs OTTs

BaaS

How to make a startup

or not!

Work for someone first?

Have a methodology

No more meetings and ppts

talk to people

Fail fast

Don’t develop a “fetish for failure”

thank you

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