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The Namibia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband report includes all BuddeComm research data and analysis on this country. Covering trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, internet, broadband, infrastructure and regulation.
Please review the Executive Summary and Table of Contents for more details.
Executive summary
Namibia was one of the last countries in Africa to introduce competition in the mobile communications sector when a second network finally launched in 2007. Despite this, the country has achieved a market penetration rate well above the regional average. However, the average revenue per user has more than halved since then. Both operators - MTC (managed by Portugal Telecom) and Cell One (to be renamed Leo by its new owner, Orascom) - have entered the Internet and broadband market with mobile data services in a bid to create new revenue streams.
Fixed-line services are still a monopoly of Telecom Namibia (TN), but as a member of the WTO the government plans to open the telecom sector to full competition. TN has quietly entered the lucrative mobile market as the third player with a CDMA network but was put on hold by the industry regulator until the new ICT Bill, tabled in Parliament in June 2009, brings clarity about fixed-mobile convergence, among other issues.
Despite being reasonably competitive with seven ISPs, development of Namibia’s Internet and broadband sector has been held back by high prices for international bandwidth, caused by the lack of a direct connection to international submarine fibre optic cables. This will change in 2011 when the first such cable is scheduled to reach the country’s shores. In the meantime, Namibia is working to diversify its transit access routes via neighbouring countries, but broadband prices on the retail level have gone up recently rather than down.
The country is well prepared for a broadband boom, with national fibre backbone infrastructure being rolled out by at least two companies and the mobile operators upgrading their networks to 3G technology. Several WiMAX and other wireless broadband services offer additional access options to and are standing by to bring additional competition to the voice market as well once Internet telephony (VoIP) is deregulated.
Key highlights:
Market analysis 2009;
Benchmarking with other countries in the region in terms of GDP, mobile, fixed and Internet market penetration;
Changes expected from new ICT legislation;
Profiles of major players in all market sectors;
National fibre rollout;
Update on international fibre connections;
For those needing high level strategic information and objective analysis on the telecommunications sector in Namibia, this report is essential reading and gives further information on:
Government policies affecting the telecoms industry;
The impact of the global economic crisis;
Market liberalisation and regulatory issues;
Telecoms operators – privatisation, IPOs, acquisitions, new licences;
Broadband pricing trends, fixed and wireless;
Mobile data services and pricing, incl. 3G broadband;
Average Revenue per User (ARPU).This annual report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Namibia’s telecommunications market.
Subjects covered include:
Key statistics;
Market and industry overviews;
The impact of the global economic crisis;
Regulatory environment and structural reform;
Major players (fixed, mobile and broadband);
Infrastructure development;
Mobile voice and data markets, including 3G;
Average Revenue per User (ARPU) trends and analysis;
Internet and broadband development and pricing;
Convergence (voice/data, fixed/wireless/mobile).
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Table of Contents
1. Executive summary
2. Key statistics
2.1 Country overview
3. Telecommunications market
3.1 Market analysis 2009
3.2 Regional benchmarking
4. Regulatory environment
4.1 Ministerial Communications Division
4.2 Regulatory authority
4.2.1 Namibia Communications Commission (NCC)
4.3 Post and Telecommunications Bill 1999
4.4 Draft Communications Bill 2002
4.5 Draft Information and Communications Bill 2007/2008
4.6 Telecom sector liberalisation in Namibia
4.7 International gateways
4.8 Interconnection
4.9 Value-added Tax (VAT)
5. Fixed network operator in Namibia
5.1 Telecom Namibia Ltd
5.1.1 Fixed-line statistics
5.1.2 Network infrastructure
5.1.3 Wireless local loop (WLL)
5.1.4 Switch – fixed or mobile?
5.1.5 VSAT
5.1.6 Data services
6. International infrastructure
6.1 Overview
7. Internet market
7.1 Overview
7.1.1 Internet statistics
7.2 Internet connectivity
7.3 Namibia’s ISP market
7.3.1 MTN Business (formerly Verizon Business, UUNet Namibia)
7.3.2 Africa Online Namibia
7.3.3 MWEB Namibia
7.3.4 Internet Technologies Namibia (ITN)
7.3.5 iWay
7.4 SchoolNet Namibia
8. Broadband market
8.1 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
8.2 Wireless broadband
8.3 WiMAX
8.4 WiFi
9. Convergence
9.1 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony
9.2 Next-generation networks (NGN)
9.3 E-commerce
9.4 E-government
10. Mobile communications
10.1 Overview of Namibia’s mobile market
10.1.1 The long road to Namibia’s second mobile licence
10.1.2 Mobile statistics
10.2 Major mobile operators
10.2.1 MTC
10.2.2 Cell One (Leo)
10.3 Mobile data services
10.3.1 Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
10.3.2 GPRS/EDGE
10.3.3 3G/HSDPA
10.3.4 EV-DO
10.4 Mobile content and applications
10.4.1 Mobile TV
10.4.2 Mobile banking
10.5 Satellite mobile
11. Related reports
Table 1 – Country statistics Namibia – 2009
Table 2 – Fixed-line network statistics – 2008
Table 3 – Internet provider statistics – 2008
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2008
Table 5 – Mobile statistics – March 2009
Table 6 – National telecommunications authority
Table 7 – GDP per capita in Namibia and other countries in the region – 2009
Table 8 – Mobile penetration in Namibia and other countries in the region – March 2009
Table 9 – Internet user penetration in Namibia and other countries in the region – 2008
Table 10 – Fixed-line penetration in Namibia and other countries in the region – 2008
Table 11 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2008
Table 12 – Internet users and penetration rate – 1996 - 2008
Table 13 – Telecom Namibia ADSL Home pricing – 2008 - 2009
Table 14 – Telecom Namibia ADSL Business pricing – 2008 - 2009
Table 15 – Telecom Namibia new ADSL home pricing from 1 October 2009
Table 16 – Telecom Namibia new ADSL business pricing from 1 October 2009
Table 17 – MWEB WiMAX business pricing – November 2009
Table 18 – Telecom Namibia WiMAX pricing – November 2009
Table 19 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1995 - 2009
Table 20 – Mobile subscribers by operator and annual change – March 2009
Table 21 – MTC ARPU – 2004 - 2009
Table 22 – MTC mobile data bundle pricing – November 2009
Exhibit 1 – Map of Namibia
Exhibit 2 – Telecom Namibia ‘Switch’ CDMA coverage map – November 2009
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