At the tip of the continent, South Africa’s position has long made it a natural trade entrepôt, and is now seeing it become an increasingly important centre for global telecommunications. Rising international connectivity is helping boost the country’s competitiveness as an ICT service exporter.
According to the Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa has the largest IT market in Africa, ranking 20th in the world and eighth when IT spending is factored in as a part of GDP. While this bodes well for IT vendors and service providers, many attribute the high ranking to strong levels of IT spend among the corporate segment and assert...
Competitive as it is, South Africa’s telecoms sector continues to see growth and attract the attention of foreign investors. Meanwhile, falling prices are driving increasing volumes – contributing, with rising data usage, to a stabilisation of average revenue per user (ARPU). Operators are seeking growth from greater use of value-added services...
As is the case in many markets elsewhere, allocation of spectrum in South Africa is controlled and regulated by the government, and heavily demanded by a variety of end-users, including mobile operators, television broadcasters and emergency services. Spectrum scarcity is not a uniquely South African challenge, as the uptake and usage of...
The trend towards knowledge- and service-based economies is increasingly widespread among emerging and frontier markets, whether they are resource-rich or resource-poor. The benefits of driving growth in the tertiary sector are well known, but the recipes for success are not. However, Ghana’s economic and political stability, combined with its...
Balancing the marked decrease in fixed-line traffic and continued growth in the mobile communications segment, Morocco’s telecoms players are grappling with a period of intense competition. Since the entry of a third operator, Wana, in 2010, the country’s two established operators, Maroc Telecom and Méditel, have been battling it out on several...
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