Towards Evidence-based ICT Policy and Regulation which offers evidence of the dynamism of this sector and its large contribution to the national economy. From 62 thousand million in 2006, the mobile telephone sector recorded receipts of just under 149 thousand million in December 2009. As for aggregate turnover in the telephone sectors in Benin, from 113,158 million FCFA in 2007, it increased to 159,719 million FCFA, rising 31.2%. This increase is notably due to the reforms in the mobile telephone sectors following the crisis observed in the sector in July 2007. In developing countries and especially in Benin, keeping in mind the direct and indirect provision of ICT to their daily lives, users, notable mobile telephone users, devote a significant part of their budget to it. In fact, as the following table indicates, mobile telephone users dedicate on average a little more than 3,000 FCFA per month to the consumption of mobile telephone services. In March 2009, this consumption climbed to 3,998 FCFA. Table 8: Average income per GSM subscriber in 2009 per operator. Operators March-09 June-09 Sept-09 Dec-09 MTN 4 994 4 311 4 615 5 609 MOOV 3 368 3 401 3 363 3 342 BBCOM 5 417 5 612 3 711 3 909 GLO 2 377 2 140 1 967 1 930 LIBERCOM 3 836 2 761 2 383 2 761 ARPU 3 998 3 645 3 208 3 510 Source: ATRPT (2010). Investment in the telephone sector on 31 December reached 158.980 million FCFA compared to 87,998 million in 2007, a growth of 147%, which as a matter of course promotes the growth of diverse services and related jobs. The considerable investment volume in the mobile telephone sector in 2008 is due to the set-up of a fifth GSM operator (Glo Mobile Bénin). Table 9: Evolution of annual investments (in millions of FCFA). 2006 2007 2008 2009 Fixed Operator 1 854 3 358 4 150 362 Mobile Operators 21 483 84 640 208 716 158 618 Total Investment 23 337 87 998 212 866 158 980 Source: ATRPT (2010). The positive impact of telecommunication was confirmed by econometric works. As was showed recently through a study in various emerging countries (Leonard Waverman et al.), a developing country which had an average of 10 supplementary points in terms of the mobile telephone penetration rate compared to another otherwise identical country, would have seen their GDP per capita increase by 0,59% between 1996 and 2003 in comparison. This result was confirmed in Benin by the work of Yai (2009) on ICT and economic growth since it has shown that the total number of telephones has a positive effect on the economic growth of Benin. Indeed, an increase in the telephone penetration rate of one percentage point impacts positively on economic growth by up to 13.75%. The same result was found by Van et al. (2008) on a micro-economic measure of the impact of telecommunication based on economic growth. Mobile telephony has become a means of payment without close contact and plays a crucial role in remote transactions. For this purpose, new services, notably micro-payment or m-payment, have been developed in Benin banking companies (Diamond bank, BOA, etc.). 12