Algeria Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Last updated: 3 Jun 2022 Update History

Report Pages: 167

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Algerian government looking to support a 5G launch in 2022

Algeria has a steadily developing telecom infrastructure with growth encouraged by supportive regulatory measures and by government policies aimed at delivering serviceable internet connections across the country.

Mobile broadband is largely based on 3G and LTE, and the data rates are also low in global terms. Although LTE is available in all provinces, much investment is required from the MNOs to improve the quality of service. The state has previously been hesitant to commit to 5G, instead encouraging the MNOs to undertake upgrades to LTE infrastructure before investing in commercial 5G services. However, in an about-turn in March 2022 it divulged that it was in the process of freeing up the requisite spectrum to enable the MNOs to launch 5G services, possibly in 2022.

Fixed internet speeds remain slow, and the country ranks poorly in international tables. Some efforts are ongoing to address this, with the government having pressed Algérie Télécom in early 2021 to increase the minimum rate available from 4Mb/s to 10Mb/s.

Intensifying price competition between the three MNOs – Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo Algeria – together with taxes on voice and data services, have had a negative effect on operator revenue. The difficult operating climate encouraged VEON to sell its entire share in Djezzy in mid-2021, allowing it to focus on its more profitable markets. The stake has since been valued at $682 million.

BuddeComm notes that the Covid-19 pandemic as well as global headwinds such as the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine, continue to have an impact on the near-term growth trajectory of the Algerian telecoms market. Spending on telecoms services and devices is under pressure from the consequent restriction on disposable incomes. However, the crucial nature of telecom services, both for general communication as well as a tool for home-working and the uptake of OTT services and solutions, is helping to offset such pressures.

The report also covers the responses of the telecom operators as well as government agencies and regulators as they react to the public health crisis to ensure that citizens can continue to make optimum use of telecom services. This can be reflected in subsidy schemes and the promotion of tele-health and tele-education, among other solutions.

Key developments:

Regulator again provides MNOs with additional spectrum to address poor services;
Government approves procedures for implementing MNP;
Regulator awards additional 900MHz spectrum to MNOs;
Government argues for upgrades to LTE networks to be prioritised before MNOs invest in 5G, prepares for a 5G launch before end-2022;
NEC and Juniper Networks roll out Algeria Telecom's IP Metro Network;
Algerian Telecom Group and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications establish a roadmap for the national fibre network, plan to double international fibre capacity;
AFR-IX confirms plans to build Medusa subsea cable with Algeria to be one of 16 landing points;
MNO’s LTE infrastructure reaches all 48 provinces, though QoS is considered poor;
Government initiates national infrastructure project to replace copper network with fibre;
VEON in the process of selling its entire 45.57% stake in OTA to the Algerian National Investment Fund, with the share valued at $682 million;
Report update includes the regulator’s market data update to end-2021, telcos’ financial and operating data to Q1 2022, updated Telecom Maturity Index charts and analyses, recent market data developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

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

Key statistics
Regional Africa Market Comparison

Market characteristics
Market Leaders
Market Challengers
Market Emergents
TMI vs GDP
Mobile and mobile broadband penetration
Fixed versus mobile broadband penetration

Country overview
Telecommunications market

Historical overview
Market analysis

Regulatory environment

Regulatory authority
Fixed-line developments

Law of 2000
Telecom sector liberalisation
Privatisation
Universal Telecommunications Service (UTS)
Interconnection
Access

Mobile network developments

Registration of subscriber details
Interconnection
Licensing
Roaming
Mobile Number Portability
Spectrum

Mobile market

Market analysis
Mobile statistics
Mobile infrastructure

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

Major mobile operators

Algérie Télécom (Mobilis)
Djezzy
Ooredoo Algeria

Mobile content and applications

M-payments

Fixed-line broadband market

Market analysis
Broadband statistics
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
Other fixed broadband services

WiMAX and Wi-Fi
Broadband via satellite

Digital economy

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

Fixed network operators

Algérie Télécom

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

Lacom (CAT, defunct)

Telecommunications infrastructure

Overview of the national telecom network

Algérie Télécom
AETC
CITA

International infrastructure

Terrestrial cables
Satellite links
Submarine cables

Smart infrastructure

Appendix – Historic data
Glossary of abbreviations
Related reports

List of Tables

Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities - Algeria – 2022 (e)
Table 2 – Telephony market revenue by service (DZD billion) – 2011 – 2020
Table 3 – Growth in the number of in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2011 – 2027
Table 4 – Change in the number of prepaid and contract subscribers (million) – 2010 – 2021
Table 5 – Change in the proportion of prepaid and contract subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Table 6 – Development of mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
Table 7 – Change in the number of mobile subscribers by platform (million) – 2010 – 2021
Table 8 – Change in the market share of subscribers by platform – 2014 – 2021
Table 9 – Decline in mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Table 10 – Growth in the number of 3G and LTE subscribers by operator (million) – 2018 – 2021
Table 11 – Decline in the number of GSM subscribers by operator (million) – 2013 – 2021
Table 12 – Change in the market share of GSM subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2021
Table 13 – Development of SMS traffic – 2011 – 2021
Table 14 – Change in the number of 3G and LTE mobile broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2021
Table 15 – Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2014 – 2026
Table 16 – Increase in mobile data traffic – 2018 – 2021
Table 17 – Change in the number of Mobilis’s subscribers – 2009 – 2021
Table 18 – Change in the number of Djezzy’s mobile subscribers – 2011 – 2022
Table 19 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data (DZD billion) – 2011 – 2022
Table 20 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data ($ million) – 2013 – 2021
Table 21 – Change in Djezzy’s blended mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Table 22 – Development of Ooredoo Algeria’s financial data (QAR billion) – 2009 – 2022
Table 23 – Change in Ooredoo’s mobile ARPU by segment (QAR/month) – 2009 – 2022
Table 24 – Growth in the number of Ooredoo’s mobile subscribers by type (million) – 2011 – 2022
Table 25 – Decline in the number of Ooredoo’s wireless broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2022
Table 26 – Growth in the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 27 – Fixed-line broadband connections by data rate – 2017 – 2018
Table 28 – Fixed-line broadband connections by data rate (new format) – 2020 - 2021
Table 29 – Growth in the number of DSL broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2021
Table 30 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers – 2015 – 2021
Table 31 – Change in the number of WiMAX broadband subscribers – 2013 – 2021
Table 32 – Fixed-wireless (LTE) broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2021
Table 33 – Development of fixed-line household penetration – 2013 – 2021
Table 34 – Change in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Table 35 – Growth in the number of fixed lines in service by type (million) – 2009 – 2021
Table 36 – Decline in fixed-line voice traffic – 2015 – 2021
Table 37 – Increase in national fibre network length – 2012 – 2018
Table 38 – Increase in used international bandwidth – 2011 – 2021
Table 39 – Historic - Change in the number of 3G subscribers by operator (million) – 2013 – 2017
Table 40 – Historic - Change in the market share of 3G subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2017
Table 41 – Historic - Decline in the number of WLL lines – 2008 – 2017
Table 42 – Historic - Djezzy subscribers – 2005 – 2010
Table 43 – Historic - Fixed-line and mobile traffic (million minutes) – 2012 – 2015
Table 44 – Historic - Fixed-line traffic per line per month – 2008 – 2015
Table 45 – Historic - Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 – 2010
Table 46 – Historic - Fixed lines in service by type (million) – 2001 – 2010
Table 47 – Historic - Telephony market revenue by service (DZD billion) – 2000 – 2010
Table 48 – Historic - Telephony market revenue by service ($ million) – 2000 – 2016
Table 49 – Historic - Internet users and penetration rate – 1999 – 2015
Table 50 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1999 – 2010
Table 51 – Historic - Fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2003 – 2010
Table 52 – Historic - Mobile ARPU – 2002 – 2009
Table 53 – Historic - LTE subscribers by operator – 2017
Table 54 – Historic - Mobile termination rates by operator (DZD/minute) – 2013 – 2016
Table 55 – Historic - Decline in Djezzy’s financial data (DZD billion) – 2008 – 2010
Table 56 – Historic - Growth in the number of Ooredoo’s mobile subscribers by segment (million) – 2005 – 2010
Table 57 – Historic - Increase in international bandwidth – 2008 – 2010

List of Charts

Chart 1 – Africa Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Leaders
Chart 2 – Africa – Market Leaders global ranking
Chart 3 – Africa Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Challengers
Chart 4 – Africa – Market Challengers global ranking
Chart 5 – Africa Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Emergents
Chart 6 – Africa – Market Emergents global ranking
Chart 7 – Africa – Telecoms Maturity Index vs GDP per capita
Chart 8 – Africa – Mobile subscriber penetration vs mobile broadband penetration
Chart 9 – Africa – Fixed and mobile broadband penetration
Chart 10 – Telephony market revenue by service (DZD billion) – 2011 – 2020
Chart 11 – Growth in the number of in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2011 – 2027
Chart 12 – Change in the number of prepaid and contract subscribers – 2010 – 2021
Chart 13 – Change in the proportion of prepaid and contract subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 14 – Development of mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
Chart 15 – Change in the number of mobile subscribers by platform – 2010 – 2021
Chart 16 – Change in the market share of subscribers by platform – 2014 – 2021
Chart 17 – Decline in mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 18 – Growth in the number of 3G and LTE subscribers by operator (million) – 2018 – 2021
Chart 19 – Decline in the number of GSM subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2021
Chart 20 – Change in the market share of GSM subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2021
Chart 21 – Development of SMS traffic (billion) – 2011 – 2021
Chart 22 – Change in the number of 3G and LTE mobile broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2021
Chart 23 – Growth in the number of in the number of mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2014 – 2026
Chart 24 – Change in the number of Mobilis’s subscribers – 2009 – 2021
Chart 25 – Change in the number of Djezzy’s mobile subscribers – 2011 – 2022
Chart 26 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data – 2011 – 2022
Chart 27 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data ($) – 2013 – 2021
Chart 28 – Change in Djezzy’s blended mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Chart 29 – Development of Ooredoo Algeria’s financial data (QAR billion) – 2009 – 2022
Chart 30 – Change in Ooredoo’s mobile ARPU by segment – 2009 – 2022
Chart 31 – Growth in the number of Ooredoo’s mobile subscribers by type – 2011 – 2022
Chart 32 – Decline in the number of Ooredoo’s wireless broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2022
Chart 33 – Growth in the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 34 – Growth in the number of DSL broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2021
Chart 35 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers – 2015 – 2021
Chart 36 – Change in the number of WiMAX broadband subscribers – 2013 – 2021
Chart 37 – Fixed-wireless (LTE) broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2021
Chart 38 – Change in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Chart 39 – Growth in the number of fixed lines in service by type – 2009 – 2021
Chart 40 – Increase in national fibre network length – 2012 – 2018
Chart 41 – Increase in used international bandwidth – 2011 – 2021

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1 – Map of Telecom Maturity Index global ranking among countries in Africa
Exhibit 2 – Generalised Market Characteristics by Market Segment
Exhibit 3 – Africa – Market Leaders and market developments
Exhibit 4 – Africa – Market Challengers and market developments
Exhibit 5 – Africa – Market Emergents and market developments
Exhibit 6 – Ooredoo Algeria’s licences and expiry dates

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Algeria Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

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Algerian government looking to support a 5G launch in 2022

Key developments:

Companies mentioned in this report:

Key statistics

Regional Africa Market Comparison

Country overview

Telecommunications market

Regulatory environment

Mobile market

Fixed-line broadband market

Digital economy

Fixed network operators

Telecommunications infrastructure

Appendix – Historic data

Glossary of abbreviations

Related reports

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Share this Report

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Research Methodology

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