China and India may be the great growth prospects for 2015, for handset and equipment vendors, but all eyes will also be on Africa in the coming year. This is partly because there are signs of a coming mobile broadband boom in parts of this diverse continent – a recent report from the GSMA forecasts that the number of unique mobile subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa will pass the 500m mark in 2020. It is also partly because the continent is likely to be one of the most significant drivers of decisions at the WRC-15 World Radio Conference in the fall. Africa surprised everyone at the 2012 conference by getting the ITU to agree that the 700MHz band, adopted in the…