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Invest in the MEDA region, why how ?
The first private mobile telecommunications operator, Orascom
Telecom Algeria (commercial name “Djezzy”) from Egypt started
business in 2001 and currently services 5 million subscribers,
followed by the Saudi Wataniya Telecom Algeria “Nedjma”
(500,000 subscribers) in 2004. Two VSAT licences were also
awarded in 2004 to Djezzy and a consortium of Monaco’s Divona
Telecom and Algeria’s Kpoint Com. A fixed telephony licence was
also granted in April 2005 to Orascom Telecom Holding in
partnership with Telecom Egypt.
Algeria Telecom, with turnover of DZ 130 billion (approximately
US$ 1.885 billion) in 2005, has defined new objectives targeting
capacity of almost 7 million fixed lines, 3 million ADSL subscribers
and 6 million mobile subscribers by 2008. It plans to invest some
US$ 2.5 billion by 2010.
Over 70 percent of the two million fixed telephone subscribers are
administrations, public utilities and trade and services companies,
while the household connection rate remains very low at less than
30 percent.
The French equipment supplier Alcatel has signed a contract for
deployment of a cellular network with Orascom, representing more
than 50 percent of infrastructure, the rest of equipment being
provided by the German company Siemens. Ericsson holds a
majority share in the infrastructure of the Mobilis GSM network.
Chinese suppliers like Huawei and ZTE are very active, mainly on
the telegraphic telephony market, administration PABXs, and
mobile and fixed telephony. The French ISP Wanadoo (a subsidiary
of France Telecom) has signed a technical assistance contract with
EEPAD, the leading internet service provider.
The internet, operational since 1997, is serviced by about fifteen
Internet Service Providers (ISP) for 700,000 users.
Market opportunities: the new fixed telephony licence sold to a
consortium made up of Orascom Telecom Holding and Egypt
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