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'Africa & Middle East Telecom-Week' defines South Africa as: Botswana; Comoros (Union of the); Lesotho; Malawi; Mauritius; Mayotte; Namibia; Reunion; South Africa and Swaziland.
Source: Industry data & estimates c. 2010 Blycroft Ltd
Southern Africa accounts for 13 percent of the total number of mobile subscribers in Africa at the end of 2009, or approximately 59.5 million out of a total of some 454.8 million. Souther Africa is dominated by South Africa which represents 83 percent of the total subscribers in the region. Within South Africa itself Vodacom (62 percent owned by Vodafone) is the dominant player with 54 percent of the local market. Indeed, Vodacom RSA is the largest single mobile player by subscriber numbers in the region, and represents 45.1 percent of the regional total.
Source: Industry data & estimates c. 2010 Blycroft Ltd
It is this regional domination by a mature market and mature players that is reflected in the Year-on-Year annual growth rates: Southern Africa enjoyed only a growth rate of 2 percent in 2009, down from 17 percent in 2008. The credit crunch has clearly had an effect with a decline in consumer demand, together with a mobile penetration in South Africa of 103 percent in 3Q 2009 (regional total 82 percent).
This compares to Africa as a whole which saw growth of 22 percent in 2009, down from 35 percent in 2008 (42 percent 2007).
Source: Industry data & estimates c. 2010 Blycroft Ltd
The dominance of RSA is even more stricking graphically, dominanting all other nations. Botswana and Malawi are the second largest by subscriber numbers with 3 percent of the market, followed by Mauritius and Nambia which both have 2 percent each.
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SOUTH AFRICA:
SOUTH AFRICA: Vodacom and MTN cut pre-paid prices - 11 Mar 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: MTN CEO to exit in March 2011 - 04 Mar 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: Vodacom SA to launch M-Pesa - 25 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: ICASA approves new interconnection rates - 25 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: Small not beautiful says Vodacom - 18 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: ICASA refuses reduction in interconnection rates - 18 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: MTN upgrades 3G, plans to roll out HSPA+ - 11 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: ICASA discards proposed MTRs - 11 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: Wireless operators to reduce interconnection fee - 04 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: Neotel to start number porting from April - 04 Feb 2010
AFRICA: Vodacom brings DRC into line - 04 Feb 2010
SOUTH AFRICA: Vodacom South Africa selects Syniverse for optimising roaming - 28 Jan 2010
A & ME SUBSCRIBER STATISTICS: South Africa Mobile Network Subscriber Statistics: 3Q 2009
SOUTH AFRICA: Sentech to land Ace Cable in South Africa - 24 Dec 2009
SOUTH AFRICA: Huawei launches bandwidth cloud solution - 24 Dec 2009
SOUTH AFRICA: Former Telkom Media officer joins SABC as CEO - 24 Dec 2009
BOTSWANA:
BOTSWANA: BTC Board suspends CEO - 11 Feb 2010
BOTSWANA: BTA gives time for SIM card registration processing - 14 Jan 2010
BOTSWANA: Mobile operators told to drop prizes - 10 Dec 2009
BOTSWANA: X-tones for Mascom - 26 Nov 2009
BOTSWANA: BTC posts increase in annual profit - 15 Oct 2009
BOTSWANA: Botswana contemplates excluding BTC backhaul from privatisation - 10 Sep 2009
COMOROS:
COMOROS: Pier-to-pier for second mobile operator - 24 Sep 2009
COMOROS: SFR and Comoros Telecom pair up for cheap calls to Mayotte - 10 Sep 2009
COMOROS: New PTT Minister in government shuffle- 06 Aug 2009
LESOTHO:
LESOTHO: E-mail functionality for Econet users - 01 Oct 2009
LESOTHO: Vodacom Lesotho collaborates with Vodafone to offer affordable mobile phone services
- 26 Mar 2009
MALAWI:
MALAWI: G-Mobile raises the anti - 11 Mar 2010
MALAWI: Malawi seeks fourth operator to reduce tariffs - 25 Feb 2010
MALAWI: Charles Nsaliwa to head MACRA - 21 Jan 2010
MALAWI: MTL announces fibre optic network launch - 17 Dec 2009
MAURITIUS:
MAURITIUS: Government to fill budget deficit from telecom listing - 26 Nov 2009
MAURITIUS: MTNL calls for tender for MTML network - 05 Nov 2009
MAURITIUS: MT participates in LION fibre-optic cable project - 01 Oct 2009
MAURITIUS: Minister, MT CEO clash over introduction of new telecom license - 24 Sep 2009
MAYOTTE:
MAYOTTE: Mayotte population still missing out on cheap high-speed internet - 13 Aug 2009
MAYOTTE: Regulators meet with new telecoms players - 02 Jul 2009
NAMIBIA:
NAMIBIA: Telecom Namibia to invest in WACS - 28 Jan 2010
NAMIBIA: More texts than ever for MTC - 14 Jan 2010
NAMIBIA: CRAN appointments fleshed out - 14 Jan 2010
NAMIBIA: MTC readies Internet infrastructure for 2010 - 24 Dec 2009
NAMIBIA: NCC asks telecom players to reduce MTRs - 03 Dec 2009
NAMIBIA: Backbone severed in two places - 03 Dec 2009
NAMIBIA: 3G-EVDO expansion for Telecom Namibia - 19 Nov 2009
NAMIBIA: leo looks to ramp up growth with NSN solution - 12 Nov 2009
SWAZILAND:
SWAZILAND: David Dlamini takes over as MTN Swaziland Chairman - 01 Oct 2009
SWAZILAND: SPTC plan to sell MTN stake thwarted by government - 16 Jul 2009
SWAZILAND: MTN Swaziland to deploy 3G - 19 Mar 2009
SWAZILAND: Fixed wireless planned by SPTC - 19 Feb 2009
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"...Africa remains Millicom's fastest growing region and an increasing proportion of total Group capex has been invested in the region in 2008 and we expect that this will continue in 2009. The slightly lower growth in new subscribers, 611 thousand in Q4, reflects the more challenging economic conditions across Africa, but we expect to continue to achieve high growth in Africa as, with around 160 million people under license, Africa represents 55% of Millicom's potential market and with the penetration still low in all our markets, there is potential for high growth for many years to come."
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 September 2009 Country Report - Democratic Republic of Congo Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics
The DRC is a mineral-rich country that is recovering from civil strife and many years of pillage by its former leaders which has accounted for the low level of development of its telecommunications and other infrastructure. While there has been little success with revitalising the fixed-line network infrastructure, the mobile networks have experienced strong growth and provide a replacement for fixed telephony and public payphones. Following the launch of mobile data services, they are also set to become major players in the underdeveloped Internet and broadband sector. Overall, market penetration is still well below the African average, leaving enormous potential for future growth.
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