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”