In addition to having one of the lowest populations on the continent, Mauritius boasts the greatest broadband penetration rate — 147.39% as of 2022 — of any country in Africa. The eastern African nation's broadband Internet subscribers surpassed its population in 2019.
Just like Nigeria, Tanzania has more mobile subscriptions than its population. As of December 2023, Nigeria had a teledensity of 103.66%. With a population of 67.4 million as of 2023, the East African country had 70.3m telecom subscriptions, up from 32 million in 2014.
In January 2024, the communications authority in Zimbabwe warned against using Starlink Internet Services. The Southern African country has less than 100k subscribers on Fibre and Fixed LTE each. At the same time, a significant portion of its citizens rely on mobile Internet, with 10.97 million subscriptions as of 2023 in a country with 16.67 million people.