2018 Algeria - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Last updated: 19 Sep 2018 Update History

Report Status: Archived

Report Pages: 88

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Publication Overview

This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Algeria’s telecommunications market. The report analyses the fixed-line, mobile and broadband sectors. Subjects include:

Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
Facts, figures and statistics;
Industry and regulatory issues;
Infrastructure developments;
Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
Mobile Voice and Data Markets;
Broadband (FttP, DSL, cable, wireless);
Mobile subscribers and ARPU;
Broadband market forecasts;
Government policies affecting the telecoms industry;
Market liberalisation and industry issues;
Telecoms operators – privatisation, IPOs, acquisitions, new licences;
Mobile technologies (GSM; 3G, HSPA, LTE, 5G).

Researcher:- Henry Lancaster
Current publication date:- September 2018 (17th Edition)

Executive Summary

Algeria to see 4,000 health centres internet-enabled via satellite links

Although Algeria’s fixed-line penetration has seen a steady decline for a number of years government-funded efforts are continuing to ensure that fixed-line infrastructure is extended to underserved areas. This project, accounting for about 500 remaining communities, forms part of the Universal Service Telecommunications (UTS) program. The country’s relatively well-developed infrastructure includes a national fibre backbone which was augmented with a new subsea link to Valencia in April 2017. Algeria is also part of the 4,500km terrestrial Trans-Saharan Backbone network which will connect the national network with other fibre networks in the region.

Mobile penetration is growing slowly, a sign that some level of market saturation has been reached. The regulator was slow to issue 3G licences, while LTE licensees did not launch services until late 2016. Despite this tardiness, there have been significant gains in the adoption of LTE services. Coverage obligations, together with investments made in the intervening months, will ensure that LTE services will be extended rapidly in coming years in a bid to secure national internet coverage by the 2022 target.

There is also intensifying price competition between the three MNOs – Algerie Telecom’s Mobilis, Orascom’s Djezzy, and Wataniya’s Ooredoo Algeria. Together with increases in taxes on voice and data services, this competition has had a negative effect on operator revenue.

Development of Algeria’s fixed-line broadband market has long been hampered by the limited reach of the fixed-line network and the capability of the infrastructure to provide broadband services. The success of the UTS authorisations since 2016 has meant that by the beginning of 2018 mobile internet accounted for about 92% of all internet connections.

This report covers Algeria’s fixed-line telecom market, including developments in infrastructure and government efforts to extend services nationally. The report also reviews the fixed broadband market, providing key statistics, profiles of the major players, and broadband subscriber forecasts. In addition, the report covers the mobile sector, including analyses on operator strategies and recent spectrum licensing, as well as profiles of the major players, an assessment of their operating and financial performance, and subscriber forecasts.

Key developments:

GSM-R system extended along a 418km rail line;
Regulator allows network operators to extend LTE services to additional provinces;
Finance Law increases tax on voice and data services;
Algerie Telecom contracts Huawei to build a national fibre network benefiting one million customers;
African Development Bank (ADB) finances the Trans-Saharan fiber-optic backbone project (SDR);
New Code of Posts and Electronic Communications legislation providing for local loop unbundling;
Orval cable system linking Oran with Valencia completed;
Algerian Space Agency launches Algeria's first telecommunications satellite;
Mobilis extends use of network for remote electricity meter reading, contracts Huawei as partner for its network migration to 5G;
Satellite-based tele-medicine network to be extended to more than 4,000 health centres;
Report update includes the regulator's market data for 2017; telcos' operating and financial data to Q2 2018; recent market developments

Companies mentioned in this report:

Algerie Telecom (Mobilis), Optimum Telecom Algerie (Djezzy), Wataniya Telecom (Nedjema, Ooredoo), Djaweb, EEPAD, Swan Informatique, IcosNet, Smart link Communication, Algérie Télécom, Lacom

Henry Lancaster
September 2018

Key statistics

Country overview

Telecommunications market

Historical overview
Market analysis

Regulatory environment

Historical overview
Law of 2000
Regulatory authority
Telecom sector liberalisation
Privatisation
Universal Service Telecommunications (UTS)
Interconnection
Access

Fixed network operators

Overview and statistics
Algérie Télécom

Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
National backbone network
Domestic satellite network
Next Generation Networks (NGN)

Lacom (CAT, defunct)

Telecommunications infrastructure

National infrastructure

Algérie Télécom
AETC
CITA

International infrastructure
Smart infrastructure

Broadband market

Introduction and statistical overview

Market analysis
Broadband statistics
Forecasts – broadband subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
Fibre
Other fixed broadband services

Wireless broadband

Digital economy

E-learning
E-health
E-government
E-payments

Mobile communications

Market analysis
Mobile statistics

General statistics
Mobile data
Mobile broadband
Forecast – mobile subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023

Regulatory issues

Registration of subscriber details
Interconnection
Licensing

Mobile infrastructure

5G
4G (LTE)
3G
GSM
GSM-R
Other infrastructure developments

Major mobile operators

Algerie Telecom (Mobilis)
Optimum Telecom Algerie (Djezzy)
Wataniya Telecom (Nedjma, Ooredoo)

Mobile content and services

M-payments

List of Tables

Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities - Algeria – 2018 (e)
Table 2 – Telephony market revenue by service (DZD) – 2000 – 2017
Table 3 – Telephony market revenue by service ($) – 2000 – 2016
Table 4 – Fixed-line and mobile traffic – 2002 – 2015
Table 5 – Fixed-line traffic per line per month – 2008 – 2015
Table 6 – WLL lines – 2008 – 2017
Table 7 – Historic - Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 – 2009
Table 8 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2010 – 2018
Table 9 – Fixed lines in service by type – 2005 – 2016
Table 10 – International bandwidth – 2008 – 2016
Table 11 – Historic - Internet users and penetration rate – 1999 – 2009
Table 12 – Internet users and penetration rate – 2010 – 2018
Table 13 – Fixed-line (DSL) broadband subscribers and penetration – 2003 – 2018
Table 14 – Forecast broadband subscribers – 2018; 2020; 2023
Table 15 – WiMAX broadband subscribers – 2013 – 2017
Table 16 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1999 – 2009
Table 17 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 – 2018
Table 18 – Proportion of prepaid and contract subscribers – 2009 – 2016
Table 19 – Prepaid and contract subscribers – 2013 – 2016
Table 20 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2009 – 2016
Table 21 – Mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2017
Table 22 – Market share of subscribers by platform – 2014 – 2017
Table 23 – Mobile ARPU – 2002 – 2017
Table 24 – SMS traffic – 2011 – 2016
Table 25 – Mobile broadband subscribers by technology – 2014 – 2018
Table 26 – Mobile broadband subscriber penetration – 2014 – 2018
Table 27 – Forecast mobile subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023
Table 28 – mobile termination rates by operator – 2013 – 2016
Table 29 – LTE subscribers by operator –2017
Table 30 – 3G subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2017
Table 31 – 3G subscriber market share by operator – 2013 – 2017
Table 32 – GSM subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2017
Table 33 – GSM subscriber market share by operator – 2013 – 2017
Table 34 – Mobilis subscribers – 2009 – 2017
Table 35 – Djezzy subscribers – 2002 – 2018
Table 36 – Djezzy financial data (DZD) – 2008 – 2018
Table 37 – Djezzy financial data (USD) – 2013 – 2018
Table 38 – Djezzy blended ARPU – 2012 – 2018
Table 39 – Ooredoo financial data (QAR) – 2009 – 2018
Table 40 – Ooredoo blended ARPU – 2009 – 2018
Table 41 – Ooredoo mobile subscribers – 2005 – 2018
Table 42 – Ooredoo wireless broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2018

List of Charts

Chart 1 – Telephony market revenue by service ($) – 2000 – 2016
Chart 2 – Fixed lines in service and penetration rate – 2005 – 2018
Chart 3 – Internet users and penetration rate – 2005 – 2018
Chart 4 – Fixed-line (DSL) broadband subscribers and penetration – 2003 – 2018
Chart 5 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2005 – 2018
Chart 6 – Market share of subscribers by platform – 2014 – 2017
Chart 7 – Djezzy financial data – 2013 – 2018
Chart 8 – Ooredoo financial data (QAR) – 2009 – 2018

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Algeria to see 4,000 health centres internet-enabled via satellite links

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