Senegal - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics

Synopsis

Senegal has developed one of Africa’s most extensive and modern telecommunications infrastructures. The national telco, Sonatel, is partially privatised and highly profitable. A second national operator and third mobile operator were licensed in 2007 and are expected to launch services in 2008. Since the introduction of competition in the mobile sector in 1999, the number of mobile subscribers has risen dramatically, now representing around 95% of all telephone lines. Senegal was one of the first African countries to introduce ADSL broadband service in 2003 which has almost completely replaced dial-up as the Internet access method of choice. The Internet and broadband market is expected to receive a boost from the arrival of two new fibre optic submarine cables in 2008/09 which will dramatically reduce the cost of international bandwidth. Overall penetration in all sectors of Senegal’s telecom market is still low, resulting in attractive opportunities for new entrants.

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Overview of Senegal’s telecom market
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 Telecom sector reform
- 4.2 Telecommunications Act 2001
- 4.3 Universal Development Fund (UDF)
- 4.4 Regulatory authority
  - 4.4.1 Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications es des Postes (ARTP)
- 4.5 West African common regulatory framework 2005
- 4.6 Electronic Transactions Bill
- 4.7 Telecom sector liberalisation
  - 4.7.1 Second national operator (SNO) licence
5. Fixed network operators in Senegal
- 5.1 Sonatel (Orange)
  - 5.1.1 Privatisation
  - 5.1.2 International expansion
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 National telecom network
  - 6.1.1 Expansion into rural areas
  - 6.1.2 Telecentres
- 6.2 International infrastructure
  - 6.2.1 Submarine cable networks
7. Internet market
- 7.1 Overview
  - 7.1.1 Internet statistics
- 7.2 Internet connectivity
- 7.3 ISP market
  - 7.3.1 Orange (Sonatel, Sentoo)
  - 7.3.2 ARC Informatique
  - 7.3.3 Other ISPs
8. Broadband market
- 8.1 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
- 8.2 WiFi
9. Convergence
- 9.1 VoIP telephony
- 9.2 Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
- 9.3 E-Health
- 9.4 E-Government
10. Mobile communications
- 10.1 Overview of Senegal’s mobile market
  - 10.1.1 Mobile statistics
- 10.2 Regulatory issues
  - 10.2.1 Mobile number portability (MNP)
  - 10.2.2 Registration of customer details
  - 10.2.3 Per-second billing (PSB)
- 10.3 Mobile technologies
  - 10.3.1 Third Generation (3G)
- 10.4 Major mobile operators
  - 10.4.1 Orange (Sonatel Mobiles)
  - 10.4.2 Tigo (Sentel GSM)
  - 10.4.3 Third mobile licence
- 10.5 Mobile data services
  - 10.5.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
  - 10.5.2 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
  - 10.5.3 GPRS and EDGE
  - 10.5.4 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
  - 10.5.5 BlackBerry
  - 10.5.6 Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)
- 10.6 Mobile content and applications
  - 10.6.1 Manobi
11. Related reports

Table 1 – Country statistics – 2008
Table 2 – Telephone network statistics – 2008
Table 3 – Internet provider statistics – 2008
Table 4 – Internet statistics – 2008
Table 5 – Mobile statistics – 2008
Table 6 – National telecommunications authority
Table 7 – Fixed-lines in service and teledensity – 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2008
Table 8 – Internet users and penetration rate – 1996; 1998 - 2008
Table 9 – Internet subscribers – 2000 - 2008
Table 10 – International Internet bandwidth – 2002 - 2007
Table 11 – ADSL subscribers – 2004 - 2008
Table 12 – Mobile subscribers by operator, technology and annual change – December 2008
Table 13 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1996; 1998; 2000 - 2008
Table 14 – Sonatel Mobile subscribers – 1999 - 2008