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North Africa Telecommunications Report Q1 2009
Market |
Telecommunications |
Report Type |
Market Research |
Country |
Africa |
Published |
30 January 2009 |
Number of Pages |
67 |
Download |
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Immediate |
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Publisher |
Business Monitor International |
The latest quarterly update on the telecoms markets of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia contains fixedline, internet and mobile market data for the quarter ending June 2008. The update also contains revised five-year mobile growth forecasts, which have been extended to 2013.
The latest mobile market data from Morocco suggests that the number of subscribers had reached 21.29mn by the end of June 2008, giving the country a penetration rate of almost 68%. The market continues to be led by fixed-line incumbent operator Maroc Telecom, which accounts for around twothirds of the mobile customer base; the other third of the market belongs to Meditel, which is a joint venture between Spain’s Telefónica and Portugal Telecom. Growth in the first half of 2008 was significantly lower than in either H107 or H207. One explanation for the slower growth in H108 is the impact which fixed-wireless operator, Wana Telecom, has had on the Morocco’s telecoms market. Since launching a CDMA-based ‘limited mobility’ service in early 2007, Wana has grown to become Morocco’s largest fixed-line operator. It is thought that the popularity of Wana’s fixed-wireless service has resulted in weaker demand for mobile telephony among Moroccan telecoms customers. However, on 10 June Wana launched commercial mobile services, and this was expected to result in a large number Wana subscribers switching from limited mobility to a fully mobile service in the second half of 2008.
The introduction by Wana of a fully mobile service is expected to contribute to stronger mobile subscriber growth in the months ahead.
Meanwhile, in October 2008, Morocco’s telecoms regulator, the ANRT, announced that it was launching a tender process for a third GSM mobile network operating licence. Tender documents made available in November, for a fee of MAD40,000 (US$4,650).
In neighbouring Algeria, where the market already has three GSM operators, BMI estimates that the mobile customer base expanded by approximately 7% in the first six months of 2008; by the end of June, we estimate that Algeria had 29.87mn mobile customers, which is equivalent to 87.6% penetration. The strongest subscriber growth continued to be experienced by Algeria’s smallest mobile operator, Nedjma, which is owned by Kuwait’s Wataniya Telecom (itself a subsidiary of Qatar’s Q-Tel). Nedjma continues to erode market share from Algeria’s two largest mobile operators, state-owned Mobilis, and Djezzy, which is owned by Egypt’s Orascom.
In addition to being Algeria’s largest mobile operator, Orascom accounts for around 40% of Tunisia’s mobile market, where its mobile unit, Tunisiana, operates as a joint-venture with Wataniya Telecom. We estimate that Tunisia’s mobile customer base grew by 8.5% in the first half of 2008, surpassing 9.75mn customers and raising penetration to almost 94%. BMI estimates that around 16% of the Tunisian mobile market is made up of inactive prepaid users.
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