Mobile Vision and Afghanistan

1. MOBILE VISION
Jamshid Hashimi
Co-Founder at CodeZone

2. MOBILE VISION
• Vision
• - the faculty or state of being able to see.
• - imagine

7. MOBILE IS CREATING BIG CHALLENGES
AND OPPORTUNITIES!

10. MOBILE IS ENABLING NEW FORMS OF
ENTERTAINMENT, COMMUNICATION, MEDIA
AND COMMERCE!

11. • WhatsApp is the most globally popular messaging
app with 600 million users!
• WhatsApp had over 500 million monthly active
users,
• 700 million photos and 100 million videos are shared
each day,
• The messaging system handles more than 10 billion
messages each day.
• WhatsApp added about 25 million new users every
month or 833,000 active users per day.

13. MOBILE VISION
• 75% of the engagement on a Facebook post happens in the first 5 hours.
• 44% of users on Twitter have never sent a tweet!
• 84% of women and 50% of men stay active on Pinterest.
• More than 2 users sign-up for LinkedIn every second.
• Weekends are the most popular time to share Vines.
• Number of snaps sent per day on SnapChat is 400 Million. (Yeah! that’s true)
• 40% of YouTube traffic comes from mobile.

18. WHAT ABOUT PLATFORM WAR?

22. FUTURE OF MOBILE APPLICATION

23. MOBILE VISION
• The future is not only bright for consumers but also those working in application
development fields.
• The projected job growth for Mobile Application Developers is 131% and with an
average salary of $115,000 per year.
• Mobile Application Development is be considered one of the most promising careers in
the job market.

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27. SO, WHAT IS NEXT?

31. AFGHANISTAN!

32. MOBILE VISION
• Afghanistan’s mobile market continued on its positive expansion path in 2013, although
at a somewhat slower rate;
• By end-2013 mobile coverage (population) had reached 90% according to the MCIT;
• by early 2014, five mobile operators had been assigned 3G concessions;
• most importantly the price of internet is dropping;
• Opportunity for developers!
• Impact of ongoing political and civil unrest on the telecom sector.

33. QUESTIONS?

34. THANK YOU!