BBC - Blogs - College of Journalism - Why smartphone saturation in the Middle East matters - @damianradcliffe

BBC - Blogs - College of Journalism - Why smartphone saturation in the Middle East matters: "I have written before about the high levels of mobile phone penetration found across large parts of the Middle East, where some countries - including Saudi Arabia - have more than two active phones (or live SIM cards) for every person who lives there.

Even in many less affluent countries such as Egypt mobile penetration levels are above 100%. Now new data compiled by Statista (shown below), from the results of Google’s Our Mobile Planet survey, reports that in some Middle East countries smartphone penetration is rapidly approaching those numbers too.

This presents some interesting opportunities for content creators and also suggests huge potential for citizen media and journalism.

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