Algeria Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Last updated: 8 Nov 2023 Update History

Report Status: Current

Report Pages: 179

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Algerian regulator urging for wider reach of telecom services

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. The regulator recently initiated a new bidding process to licence a provider of universal telecom services, aiming to provide comprehensive coverage to all settlements.

Mobile broadband is largely based on 3G and LTE. Developments on 5G have been slow thus far, though the government has acknowledged that the country risks falling behind and has thus looked at releasing suitable spectrum. In the meantime, the three MNOs – Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo Algeria – MNOs have worked to develop 5G with vendors, with a view to launching commercial services. Although LTE is available in all provinces, much investment is required from the MNOs to improve the quality of service.

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

Intensifying price competition between the MNOs 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-2022, allowing it to focus on its more profitable markets. The sale meant that the state now has a controlling interest in two of the country’s three MNOs, which together had a 74% share of the mobile market by subscribers as of March 2023.

Key developments:

Regulator calls for applicants for a universal licence, aiming to extend mobile services to areas of low population density.
VEON completes the sale of Omnium Telecom Algérie, securing $682 million.
Algérie Télécom claiming to have signed up more than 900,000 fibre broadband subscribers.
Report update includes the regulator’s market data update to March 2023, telcos’ financial and operating data to Q2 2023, 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

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 – 2023 (e)
Table 2 – Telephony market revenue by service (DZD billion) – 2011 – 2021
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 – 2023
Table 5 – Change in the proportion of prepaid and contract subscribers – 2012 – 2023
Table 6 – Development of mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2023
Table 7 – Change in the number of mobile subscribers by platform (million) – 2010 – 2023
Table 8 – Change in the market share of mobile subscribers by platform – 2014 – 2023
Table 9 – Decline in mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Table 10 – Growth in the number of 3G and LTE subscribers (million) – 2018 – 2023
Table 11 – Growth in the number of 3G and LTE subscribers by operator (million) – 2018 – 2021
Table 12 – Decline in the number of GSM subscribers – 2013 – 2023
Table 13 – Decline in the number of GSM subscribers by operator (million) – 2013 – 2023
Table 14 – Change in the market share of GSM subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2023
Table 15 – Development of SMS traffic – 2011 – 2023
Table 16 – Change in the number of 3G and LTE mobile broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2023
Table 17 – Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2014 – 2027
Table 18 – Increase in mobile data traffic – 2021 – 2023
Table 19 – Change in the number of Mobilis’s subscribers – 2009 – 2023
Table 20 – Change in the number of Djezzy’s mobile subscribers – 2011 – 2023
Table 21 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data (DZD billion) – 2011 – 2022
Table 22 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data ($ million) – 2013 – 2021
Table 23 – Change in Djezzy’s blended mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Table 24 – Development of Ooredoo Algeria’s financial data (QAR billion) – 2009 – 2023
Table 25 – Change in Ooredoo’s mobile ARPU by segment (QAR/month) – 2009 – 2023
Table 26 – Growth in the number of Ooredoo’s mobile subscribers by type (million) – 2011 – 2023
Table 27 – Decline in the number of Ooredoo’s wireless broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2023
Table 28 – Growth in the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 29 – Fixed-line broadband connections by data rate (old format) – 2017 – 2018
Table 30 – Fixed-line broadband connections by data rate (new format) – 2020 - 2021
Table 31 – Fixed-line broadband connections by data rate (newer format) – 2022 - 2023
Table 32 – Proportion of fixed-line broadband connections by data rate (newer format) – 2020 - 2021
Table 33 – Increase in fixed internet data traffic – 2021 – 2023
Table 34 – Change in the market share of fixed and fixed wireless broadband subscribers by platform – 2017 - 2023
Table 35 – Growth in the number of DSL broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2023
Table 36 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers – 2015 – 2023
Table 37 – Change in the number of WiMAX broadband subscribers – 2013 – 2021
Table 38 – Fixed-wireless (LTE) broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2023
Table 39 – Development of fixed-line household penetration – 2013 – 2023
Table 40 – Change in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Table 41 – Growth in the number of fixed lines in service by type (million) – 2009 – 2023
Table 42 – Decline in fixed-line voice traffic – 2015 – 2023
Table 43 – Increase in national fibre network length – 2012 – 2018
Table 44 – Increase in internet traffic – 2011 – 2023
Table 45 – Historic - Change in the number of 3G subscribers by operator (million) – 2013 – 2017
Table 46 – Historic - Change in the market share of 3G subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2017
Table 47 – Historic - Decline in the number of WLL lines – 2008 – 2017
Table 48 – Historic - Djezzy subscribers – 2005 – 2010
Table 49 – Historic - Fixed-line and mobile traffic (million minutes) – 2012 – 2015
Table 50 – Historic - Fixed-line traffic per line per month – 2008 – 2015
Table 51 – Historic - Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 – 2010
Table 52 – Historic - Fixed lines in service by type (million) – 2001 – 2010
Table 53 – Historic - Telephony market revenue by service (DZD billion) – 2000 – 2010
Table 54 – Historic - Telephony market revenue by service ($ million) – 2000 – 2016
Table 55 – Historic - Internet users and penetration rate – 1999 – 2015
Table 56 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1999 – 2010
Table 57 – Historic - Fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2003 – 2010
Table 58 – Historic - Mobile ARPU – 2002 – 2009
Table 59 – Historic - LTE subscribers by operator – 2017
Table 60 – Historic - Mobile termination rates by operator (DZD/minute) – 2013 – 2016
Table 61 – Historic - Decline in Djezzy’s financial data (DZD billion) – 2008 – 2010
Table 62 – Historic - Growth in the number of Ooredoo’s mobile subscribers by segment (million) – 2005 – 2010
Table 63 – 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 – 2021
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 – 2023
Chart 13 – Change in the proportion of prepaid and contract subscribers – 2012 – 2023
Chart 14 – Development of mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2023
Chart 15 – Change in the number of mobile subscribers by platform – 2010 – 2023
Chart 16 – Change in the market share of mobile subscribers by platform – 2014 – 2023
Chart 17 – Decline in mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 18 – Growth in the number of 3G and LTE subscribers – 2018 – 2023
Chart 19 – Growth in the number of 3G and LTE subscribers by operator (million) – 2018 – 2023
Chart 20 – Decline in the number of GSM subscribers – 2013 – 2023
Chart 21 – Decline in the number of GSM subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2023
Chart 22 – Change in the market share of GSM subscribers by operator – 2013 – 2023
Chart 23 – Development of SMS traffic (billion) – 2011 – 2023
Chart 24 – Change in the number of 3G and LTE mobile broadband subscribers – 2014 –2023
Chart 25 – Growth in the number of in the number of mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2014 – 2027
Chart 26 – Change in the number of Mobilis’s subscribers – 2009 – 2023
Chart 27 – Change in the number of Djezzy’s mobile subscribers – 2011 – 2023
Chart 28 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data – 2011 – 2022
Chart 29 – Development of Djezzy’s financial data ($) – 2013 – 2021
Chart 30 – Change in Djezzy’s blended mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Chart 31 – Development of Ooredoo Algeria’s financial data (QAR billion) – 2009 – 2023
Chart 32 – Change in Ooredoo’s mobile ARPU by segment – 2009 – 2023
Chart 33 – Growth in the number of Ooredoo’s mobile subscribers by type – 2011 – 2023
Chart 34 – Decline in the number of Ooredoo’s wireless broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2023
Chart 35 – Growth in the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 36 – Change in the market share of fixed and fixed wireless broadband subscribers by platform – 2017 - 2023
Chart 37 – Growth in the number of DSL broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2023
Chart 38 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers – 2015 – 2023
Chart 39 – Change in the number of WiMAX broadband subscribers – 2013 – 2021
Chart 40 – Fixed-wireless (LTE) broadband subscribers – 2014 – 2023
Chart 41 – Change in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Chart 42 – Growth in the number of fixed lines in service by type – 2009 – 2023
Chart 43 – Increase in national fibre network length – 2012 – 2018
Chart 44 – Increase in used international bandwidth – 2011 – 2023

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 regulator urging for wider reach of telecom services

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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