WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 340 / 356
million people talking on its network in South Africa, DR Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique and
Tanzania (and soon in Nigeria too).
Orange instead, owned by France Telecom, is present in West Africa, as Orange Bissau, a
newly formed Sonatel subsidiary. It operates in Guinea Bissau and Guinea from the first half
of 2007.
[A26] In Guinea, Sonatel has purchased the mobile license formerly held by the operator
Spacetel, for a renewable term of 15 years. In Africa, Orange is already present in Botswana,
Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, and Senegal, and serves
nearly 10 million customers in this region of the world.
The principal supplier of technology for mobile services in Africa is Huawei
(www.huawei.com). In Sub-Sahara Africa region, Huawei service has set foot on over 30
countries for about 60 telecom operators, such as MTN, Millicom, Orange, Celtel, TelKom,
TKL, ETC, Safaricom, Cell C, Vodacom, Telcel, Globacom, etc.
Huawei provides CDMA products and multi-frequency solutions for Starcomms in Nigeria
and TKL in Kenya; in Mauritius, Huawei offers the first 3G network solutions in Africa market
for Emtel, and triple-play core network solutions for Telecom. Huawei is regarded as a
vanguard vendor who has introduced CDMA technology to more than 30 countries in Africa
market. Customized wireless network solutions, like low-cost GSM deployed in Madagascar,
Mali and Senegal, are other significant services Huawei tapped for Africa.
In Africa, Huawei is present in Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar,
Mauritana, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia
and Zimbabwe. Huawei also has announced the launch of high bandwidth services such as
Video on Demand, Internet games and IP-TV, optical fiber access (FTTx) in Morocco.
APPENDIX C (ASIA)
C.1 Electricity production of the Asian countries.
The following data are updated on November 2007 and taken from “CIA World FactBook”.