Vodacom South Africa has quickly grown a successful mobile advertising business. With limited Internet penetration in South Africa, mobile advertising is expected to overtake online advertising by 2009. "³
There are a number of different types of mobile advertising that have been successful, including services based on text and wireless access protocol (WAP)
There is good potential for mobile advertising in African markets and, indeed, in emerging markets worldwide, where low incomes make advertising an important new revenue stream.