With a mobile penetration of close to 90% and fixed-line penetration of around 10% in early 2010, Algeria has one of the highest teledensities in Africa. Its relatively well developed infrastructure includes a national fibre backbone and one of Africa's first fibre-to-the-home (FttH) deployments. The country's oil and gas reserves have made it one of the wealthiest nations in Africa. However, the market has been affected by the global economic crisis, and its recovery will depend on a combination of regulatory and economic factors, as well as choice of business models.As the mobile voice market approaches saturation, subscriber growth has begun to flatten and the attention is shifting to maintaining or improving average revenue per user (ARPU) which has continued to decline under intensifying price competition between the three networks: Algerie Telecom's Mobilis, Orascom's Djezzy, and Wataniya's Nedjma. The operators have entered the underdeveloped Internet market by launching basic mobile data services, but the licensing of third generation (3G) spectrum is being delayed, which makes it difficult for them to fully compete in the broadband sector.In the meantime, fixed-line incumbent Algerie Telecom (AT) is rapidly expanding its ADSL and WiMAX networks and upgrading its CDMA wireless local loop network with broadband capabilities. ADSL prices are among the lowest in Africa. Several of the country's ISPs are rolling out their own WiMAX wireless broadband infrastructure. The full liberalisation of VoIP Internet telephony is enabling them to become players in the fixed voice market as well, and converged triple-play services (voice, data and video) have been introduced.Competition in the fixed-line sector received a setback when the second operator, Lacom (a joint venture between Egypt's Orascom Telecom and Telecom Egypt) exited the market in 2008 after three years of operations, citing regulatory barriers that made it impossible to compete with AT. The government then announced that the national telco will not be privatised, and plans to invest US$6 billion into its mobile, fixed and fibre networks over the five years to 2014 as part of a US$150 billion program to upgrade the country's infrastructure.This report contains an overview of Algeria's telecommunications sector, analysis and key statistics, profiles of the major players, and scenario forecasts for the fixed-line, Internet and mobile market to 2012 and 2015.Market highlights:One of the highest levels of mobile and fixed-line penetration in Africa;GDP per capita fell by more than 15% as a result of the global economic crisis, set to recover in 2010;Intense price competition is driving down ARPU;Forecasts for mobile, fixed-line and Internet markets to 2012 and 2015;Profiles of major players in all market sectors;3G licensing delayed further;Major investments in national fibre infrastructure.Estimated market penetration rates in Algeria's telecoms sector ' end 2010Market | Penetration rate | Mobile | 92% | Fixed | 11% | Internet | 16% | (Source: BuddeComm based on various sources)

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Algeria - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
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Report Summary
With a mobile penetration of close to 90% and fixed-line penetration of around 10% in early 2010, Algeria has one of the highest
teledensities in Africa. Its relatively well developed infrastructure includes a national fibre backbone and one of Africa's first
fibre-to-the-home (FttH) deployments. The country's oil and gas reserves have made it one of the wealthiest nations in Africa.
However, the market has been affected by the global economic crisis, and its recovery will depend on a combination of regulatory and
economic factors, as well as choice of business models.
As the mobile voice market approaches saturation, subscriber growth has begun to flatten and the attention is shifting to maintaining
or improving average revenue per user (ARPU) which has continued to decline under intensifying price competition between the three
networks: Algerie Telecom's Mobilis, Orascom's Djezzy, and Wataniya's Nedjma. The operators have entered the underdeveloped
Internet market by launching basic mobile data services, but the licensing of third generation (3G) spectrum is being delayed, which
makes it difficult for them to fully compete in the broadband sector.
In the meantime, fixed-line incumbent Algerie Telecom (AT) is rapidly expanding its ADSL and WiMAX networks and upgrading its
CDMA wireless local loop network with broadband capabilities. ADSL prices are among the lowest in Africa. Several of the country's
ISPs are rolling out their own WiMAX wireless broadband infrastructure. The full liberalisation of VoIP Internet telephony is enabling
them to become players in the fixed voice market as well, and converged triple-play services (voice, data and video) have been
introduced.
Competition in the fixed-line sector received a setback when the second operator, Lacom (a joint venture between Egypt's Orascom
Telecom and Telecom Egypt) exited the market in 2008 after three years of operations, citing regulatory barriers that made it
impossible to compete with AT. The government then announced that the national telco will not be privatised, and plans to invest
US$6 billion into its mobile, fixed and fibre networks over the five years to 2014 as part of a US$150 billion program to upgrade the
country's infrastructure.
This report contains an overview of Algeria's telecommunications sector, analysis and key statistics, profiles of the major players, and
scenario forecasts for the fixed-line, Internet and mobile market to 2012 and 2015.
Market highlights:
One of the highest levels of mobile and fixed-line penetration in Africa;
GDP per capita fell by more than 15% as a result of the global economic crisis, set to recover in 2010;
Intense price competition is driving down ARPU;
Forecasts for mobile, fixed-line and Internet markets to 2012 and 2015;
Profiles of major players in all market sectors;
3G licensing delayed further;
Major investments in national fibre infrastructure.Estimated market penetration rates in Algeria's telecoms sector ' end 2010
Market | Penetration rate |
Mobile | 92% |
Fixed | 11% |
Internet | 16% |
(Source: BuddeComm based on various sources)
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Table of Content
1. Key Statistics
2. Country Overview
3. Telecommunications Market
3.1 Overview of Algeria's telecom market
4. Regulatory Environment
4.1 Historical background
4.2 Law of 2000
4.3 Regulatory authority
4.3.1 ARPT
4.4 Emerging cybercrime legislation
4.5 Telecom sector liberalisation in Algeria
4.6 Interconnection
5. Fixed Network Operators
5.1 Fixed-line statistics
5.2 Algerie Telecom
5.2.1 Privatisation
5.2.2 Network infrastructure
5.2.3 Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
5.2.4 National backbone network
5.2.5 Domestic satellite network
5.2.6 Next Generation Networks (NGN)
5.2.7 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH), Triple Play
5.3 Lacom (CAT, defunct)
6. Telecommunications Infrastructure
6.1 Alternative national fibre infrastructure
6.1.1 AETC
6.2 International infrastructure
7. Internet Market
7.1 Overview
7.1.1 Internet statistics
7.2 Internet cafes
7.3 PC penetration
7.4 Algeria's ISP market
7.4.1 Djaweb
7.4.2 EEPAD
7.4.3 Swan Informatique, Satlinker
7.4.4 IcosNet
7.4.5 Smart Link Communication (SLC)
7.4.6 Lacom (defunct)
8. Broadband Market
8.1 ADSL
8.2 Wireless broadband
8.2.1 WiMAX and WiFi
8.2.2 EV-DO
8.3 Mobile broadband
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8.4 Broadband via satellite
9. Convergence
9.1 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
9.2 Triple Play
9.3 E-services
9.3.1 Academic sector
9.3.2 E-learning
9.3.3 E-health
9.3.4 E-government
9.3.5 E-payments
10. Mobile Communications
10.1 Overview of Algeria's mobile market
10.1.1 Mobile statistics
10.1.2 Market analysis 2010
10.2 Regulatory issues
10.2.1 Registration of subscriber details
10.3 Major mobile operators
10.3.1 Algerie Telecom (Mobilis)
10.3.2 Orascom Telecom Algerie (Djezzy)
10.3.3 Wataniya Telecom (Nedjma)
10.4 Mobile handsets
10.5 Tariffs
10.6 ARPU
10.7 Mobile data services
10.7.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
10.7.2 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
10.7.3 GPRS/EDGE
10.7.4 BlackBerry
10.8 Third generation (3G)
10.9 GSM-R
10.10 Satellite mobile
11. Forecasts
11.1 Forecasts ' fixed-line services ' 2012; 2015
11.2 Forecasts ' Internet users ' 2012; 2015
11.3 Forecast ' mobile subscribers ' 2012; 2015
12. Glossary of Abbreviations
Table 1 ' Country statistics Algeria ' 2010
Table 2 ' Fixed-line network statistics ' 2010
Table 3 ' Internet provider statistics ' 2010
Table 4 ' Internet user statistics ' 2010
Table 5 ' Mobile statistics ' 2010
Table 6 ' National telecommunications authority
Table 7 ' Fixed lines in service and teledensity ' 1995 - 2011
Table 8 ' Internet users and penetration rate ' 1997; 1999 - 2011
Table 9 ' Djaweb DSL pricing ' 2009
Table 10 ' Mobile subscribers and penetration rate ' 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2011
Table 11 ' Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change ' March 2010
Table 12 ' Djezzy blended ARPU ' 2002 - 2010
Table 13 ' Djezzy GPRS pricing ' 2009
Table 14 ' Forecast ' fixed-line and fixed-wireless subscribers ' 2012; 2015
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Table 15 ' Forecast ' Internet users ' 2012; 2015
Table 16 ' Forecast mobile subscribers ' 2012; 2015
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