In the recent years, Africa has truly proved itself as one of the leading suppliers of the WiMAX industry. AccessKenya is one of the largest WiMAX networks in East Africa. They provide wireless broadband for residential use in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. MTN Uganda has made it their goal to provide countrywide WiMAX access in Uganda, and has already installed several operating networks.

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), which regulates telecommunications in South Africa, issued four licenses for commercial WiMAX services to the Internet Service Providers iBurst, Sentech, Neotel, and Telkom. South Africa currently hosts a few scattered operational WiMAX networks, but with the issuance of these licenses, the country is expected see many more networks appear in the upcoming months. Delays in the award of licenses for providing WiMAX services and the limited roll-out of services that have been licensed has resulted in dampening of its potential impact. Only those companies that have already deployed WiMAX have appreciated its impact. These companies are all using Telkom’s scaled down version of wimax. According to studies conducted in 2008, 8% of corporations in South Africa have adopted WiMAX options as part of their connectivity mix in 2007 but they did not use wimax as a preferred form of connectivity and deployed it where no other options were available, such as in rural areas or areas with rough terrain.

In Angola, MSTelcom has deployed a WiMAX network to blanket over half of Luanda with broadband Internet service. In Nigeria, Galaxy Wireless Communications Limited has launched the country’s first Mobile broadband service based on the IEEE 802.16e standard. XS Broadband is also a major contributor to the installment of WiMAX in Nigeria and currently holds licenses for 24 of the 36 Nigerian states. The Middle East and Africa were the fastest growing regions for WiMAX in 2008.