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Published:December 2008 From: £535 |
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This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in the telecommunications markets of eleven West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Subjects covered
- Key statistics
- Market and industry overviews
- Regulatory environment and structural reform
- Major players (fixed, mobile and broadband)
- Infrastructure development
- Mobile voice and data markets, including 3G
- Average Revenue per User (ARPU) trends
- Internet, including broadband development
- Convergence (voice/data, fixed/wireless/mobile)
Executive Summary
Key highlights
- New international fibre links will reduce the cost of international bandwidth by up to 90%
- Fixed-line, mobile and Internet market forecasts to 2010 and 2015 for Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone
- 3G mobile services have been launched in Nigeria and are being prepared in a number of other countries in the region
- ADSL and wireless broadband are rapidly replacing dial-up as the Internet access method of choice
- Privatisation of national telcos in the region is continuing with significant premiums over reserve prices being paid
- Monthly mobile ARPU has broken the US$10 barrier in most markets, but some operators are achieving up to 60% higher ARPU than their direct competitors
- ARPU forecast for Nigeria for 2010 and 2015
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