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Egypt Telecommunications Report Q1 2010Published by: Business Monitor International Published: Jan. 22, 2010 - 77 Pages Table of Contents
AbstractThough some in the country have at times suggested that, with mobile penetration almost at 70%, the market is effectively facing saturation, growth shows no sign of slowing. Despite the fact that some areasof the country are still without coverage, and that there is still a reasonably significant proportion of the population for whom a mobile is completely out of reach, a steady stream of new subscribers is still flowing in. This may have a lot to do with multiple SIM ownership, and the overlap of inactive SIMs, but even so it remains a positive sign. BMI calculates that there were 54.24mn mobile subscribers in Egypt at the end of September 2009, putting the market on target to reach 58.88mn by the end of the year. BMI still differs somewhat in our estimation of Etisalat’s subscriber base form the NTRA figure, a discrepancy that we have explained at length, but the two are getting closer. Mobinil remains the clear market leader, despite the uncertainty that has been hanging over it for some months over the question of its ownership. It is looking increasingly likely that France Télécom will eventually gain control, and this could have some interesting implications for the future direction of the company and its role in the market.There was some excitement in the final quarter of 2009 when it was announced that the NTRA was tendering two ‘triple-play’ licences for companies to provide television, internet and voice services to specified developments of residential and business properties. Apart form the fact that this opened up an interesting new opportunity for entering the Egyptian telecoms market, it also appeared that such licences would, although not in a very far-reaching way, end Telecom Egypt (TE)’s monopoly on fixed-line voice provision. TE straightened the score, however, by explaining that the new licensees would have to lease capacity from the incumbent for the voice services, though they could provide their own data infrastructure. Still, interest in the new licences seems to be high, despite their limitations, with 18 companies buying bidding documents. After big losses in Q209, the fixed-line market dropped by a much more moderate degree in the third quarter. BMI is now expecting it to settle into a pattern of slow but steady decline. An exciting new development in BMI’s latest update of the Egypt Telecommunications report is the introduction of the new Middle East and North Africa Business Environment Rankings. The telecoms markets of North Africa, including Egypt’s, have in many ways much more in common with those in the Middle East than they do with many in Sub-Saharan Africa, and this change reflects that fact. Get Full Details About This Report >> |
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