DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7a5a6c/cote_d_ivoire_ivo) has announced the addition of the "Cote d Ivoire (Ivory Coast) - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband" report to their offering.
This 2011 report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Cote d'Ivoire's telecommunications market.
Mobile Average Revenue per User. The civil unrest in early 2011 following disputed presidential elections has led to a contraction of Cote d'Ivoires economy, but from 2012 onwards GDP growth is expected to return to around 6% per annum.
Most segments of the telecommunications market have continued to flourish during previous crises which started in 1999. The sector is dominated by mobile telephony, with South Africa's MTN and France Telecom-owned Orange leading the market. The aggressive launches of a third and a fourth GSM network in 2006/07 by Moov (owned by Etisalat of the UAE) and KoZ (operated by the Lebanese Comium Group) accelerated the already fast growth and have pushed mobile market penetration well above the African average.
A fifth mobile network was launched by Libya's LapGreen in late 2008 under the name Oricel (also refereed to as Green Network or GreenN). However, the company may become a casualty of the events in Libya in 2011.
UAE-based Warid Telecom is standing by to enter the market as the sixth player pending problems with frequency spectrum allocation, and Nigeria's Globacom has also been awarded a licence.
Globacom has announced it will land its Glo-1 international submarine fibre optic cable in the country which will bring down the cost of international bandwidth. In addition, several other cables are scheduled to reach Cote d'Ivoire in the coming years. The Internet and broadband market has remained underdeveloped due to the high cost of international bandwidth, caused by a monopolisation of access to the SAT-3/WASC international fibre optic submarine cable, the only one currently serving the country. Despite these obstacles, Cote d'Ivoire has become West Africa's third largest Internet market after Nigeria and Ghana, with services superior to those in many other African countries, including ADSL with up to 8Mb/s. WiMAX and EV-DO wireless broadband services are also available, some of them at very competitive prices.
Fixed-line incumbent Cote d'Ivoire Telecom (CI-Telecom) was majority-privatised in 1997 when France Telecom bought a controlling stake. A second national operator (SNO), Arobase was licensed before the civil war but only got off the ground in 2006 and was then acquired by MTN. Both companies are rolling out CDMA2000 1x fixed-wireless systems and fibre optic backbone networks and also control leading ISPs in the country.
Third generation mobile broadband services have not yet been introduced but are expected in the near future as a means for the mobile operators to broaden their service portfolio and combat the rapidly decreasing average revenue per user (ARPU) in the voice market.
Companies Covered in This Report:
- Cote d'Ivoire Telecom (CI-Telecom)
- MTN CI
- Arobase Telecom
- Orange CI (France Telecom)
- Comium CI (KoZ)
- Etisalat (Moov)
- LapGreen (Green Network, GreenN, Oricel)
- Warid Telecom
- Globacom
- CORA de Comstar
- Aircomm CI
- Mainstreet Technologies
- Africa Online
- AfNet
- Aviso
- Globe Access Internet (Omnes)
- Intel Afrique
- Solaris Telecom
- Africom
- Afripa Telecom (Atlantique Telecom)
- Comete
- Globe Access
- Monicash
Key Topics Covered:
1. Executive summary
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
4. Regulatory environment
5. Fixed network operators in Cte d'Ivoire
6. International infrastructure
7. Internet market
8. Broadband
9. Mobile communications
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