The steady advance of ICT over the past decade has left Egypt’s tech industry in a strong position, despite the nation’s ongoing economic and political challenges. The country has seen a significant rise in internet penetration in recent years, as a result of growing usage among middle class Egyptians and the business community, rapidly...
With high headline growth opening up new business opportunities, Côte d’Ivoire’s telecommunications sector is continuing to grow on the back of newly inaugurated 4G networks, expanding coverage and a series of regulatory reforms, which include the revocation of some licences for smaller operators and the issuance of a licence for a new entrant...
The development of the ICT sector in Côte d’Ivoire has been led mostly by the fast expansion of telecoms services — and mobile activity in particular — over recent years. As with many frontier markets, the IT segment of the sector, which includes hardware and software development, cloud computing and networking, has lagged somewhat behind....
Côte d’Ivoire has been establishing the necessary infrastructure to improve conditions for the expansion of telecoms and information technologies usage in the country. Critical in this effort is the ongoing project of setting-up a nationwide, fibre-optic broadband network. The National Broadband Project, launched in 2012, will deploy close to...
Internet infrastructure and usage have developed rapidly in Algeria in recent years, helping to pave the way for the growth of IT segments, such as hosting and cloud storage. Plans to liberalise fixed-line internet access as well as develop e-commerce and payments should also help to further boost development. Both the authorities and the...
Algeria saw the launch of the country’s first 3G networks in late 2013, after similar rollouts by its neighbours Tunisia and Morocco. However, the country has quickly made up for lost time, with the introduction in October 2016 of 4G LTE networks by all three of Algeria’s mobile network operators, with all 48 of the country’s provinces...
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