Over the past decade Nigeria’s ICT industry has grown to become one of the largest and most dynamic in Africa, with total mobile internet subscribers topping 30.9m at the end of the second quarter of 2012, accounting for the majority of the country’s 48.4m internet users. While the government has taken a prominent position on driving basic penetration, private operators have been influential in...
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Chapter | IT & Telecoms from The Report: Nigeria 2013
As the single most populous nation in Africa, Nigeria recently overtook South Africa as the largest economy on the continent. Natural resources, oil and gas in particular, comprise the country’s single largest revenue-earner but the 170m person economy also has seen significant activity in recent years into the industrial, financial, telecoms and – as of 2013 – power sectors.
Considerable oil and gas revenues have provided the Algerian government with sufficient funds to embark on generous public spending programmes in nearly all sectors, leading to improvements in many of the country’s headline indicators.
Articles & Analysis | Three may become four: A new player prepares to enters the mobile market from The Report: Egypt 2013
Over the next year, it seems likely that Egypt’s three existing mobile operators will be joined by a fourth. Telecom Egypt (TE), the majority state-owned legacy telco, has expressed a strong interest in acquiring the licence and begun negotiations with the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA), according to press reports. Should...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Ashraf Sabry, CEO, Fawry from The Report: Egypt 2013
Articles & Analysis | Natural selections: Getting the country ready for LTE installation from The Report: Egypt 2013
Mobile operators in Egypt have been looking to increase data volumes to boost their revenue flows. Data usage is low by international standards, but attractive pricing packages and cheaper smartphones are seeing take-up of value-added services (VAS) such as internet applications increase. While there is 3G capacity for current internet usage, in the...