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Nigeria - Convergence, Broadband and Internet Market
Synopsis Significant consolidation has occurred in Nigeria's Internet and broadband sector, from over 400 ISPs three years ago to around 150. New powerful players from the fixed-wireless and mobile network operator camps have entered the market with 3G mobile and advanced wireless broadband services such as WiMAX. The Internet Protocol (IP)-based next generation networks currently being rolled out are enabling converged voice, data/Internet and video services. VoIP is already carrying the bulk of Nigeria's international voice traffic. The arrival of a second international submarine fibre optic cable (Glo-1) in 2009 broke the monopoly of Nitel's notorious SAT-3/WASC cable and is set to revolutionise the market by reducing the cost of international bandwidth by up to 90%. Supported by the expansion of several competing national fibre backbone networks, applications such as e-commerce, online banking and e-payments, e-health, e-learning and e-government are rapidly evolving.
Last Update: 26 Mar 2010 Number of Pages: 19

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Nigeria - Fixed Line Market and Infrastructure - Overview and Statistics
Synopsis Nigeria is the most competitive fixed-line market in Africa, featuring a second national operator (SNO, Globacom) and over 80 other companies licensed to provide fixed telephony services. The alternative carriers combined now provide over 95% of all fixed connections while the ailing incumbent, Nitel, is looking for a new strategic investor and new business models to turn the company around. The majority of fixed lines has been implemented using wireless technologies, which gives the network operators the opportunity to also enter the lucrative mobile market under a new unified licensing regime and has helped them to secure hundreds of millions of US$ in investments from local and foreign investors. Several microwave and fibre-based national backbone infrastructures are being rolled out by various companies. Nitel's monopoly on international fibre bandwidth via the SAT-3/WASC submarine cable system ended in 2009 when Globacom's Glo-1 cable landed in the country, which will also deliver a boost to the country's underdeveloped Internet and broadband sector. Additional submarine cables are scheduled to go online in 2010 and 2011.
Last Update: 26 Mar 2010 Number of Pages: 23

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Nigeria - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews
Synopsis Nigeria is one of the biggest and fastest growing telecom markets in Africa, attracting huge amounts of foreign investment, and is yet standing at relatively low levels of market penetration. Far reaching liberalisation has led to hundreds of companies providing virtually all kinds of telecom and value-added services in an independently regulated market. The mobile sector, which has seen triple digit growth rates five years in a row since competition was introduced, has been joined by a number of additional players under a new unified licensing regime which is expected to also boost the country's underdeveloped Internet and broadband sector. Third generation mobile and WiMAX wireless broadband services are being rolled out at a rapid pace. After failing three times in the past, the privatisation of Nitel, the incumbent national telco, is scheduled to be finally completed in 2010.
Last Update: 26 Mar 2010 Number of Pages: 21

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Nigeria - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts
Synopsis Nigeria has overtaken South Africa to become the continent's largest mobile market with now over 75 million subscribers, and yet market penetration stands at only around 50% in early 2010. However, subscriber growth slowed significantly during 2009, partly as a result of the global economic crisis. Much of the remaining addressable market is in the country's rural areas where network rollouts and operations are expensive. This in combination with declining ARPU levels is forcing the networks to streamline their operations and to develop new revenue streams from services such as third generation (3G) mobile broadband, mobile payments/banking, and others. At the same time the operators are rolling out national fibre backbone networks to support the ever increasing demand for bandwidth. This report contains a market overview and analysis, key statistics, regulatory issues, profiles of major players (MTN, Globacom, Zain, Visafone, EMTS, M-Tel, Multi-Links, Starcomms, Reliance, M-Tel, Intercellular) including financial results where available, and two scenario forecasts for the mobile market in 2012 and 2015.
Last Update: 26 Mar 2010 Number of Pages: 29

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Nigeria - Telecoms Market Statistics and Forecasts
Synopsis Nigeria is one of the biggest and fastest growing telecom markets in Africa with still huge further growth potential in all sectors. A new unified licensing regime has intensified competition between service providers and is driving them to introduce converged fixed and mobile, voice and broadband services to maintain market share and limit the decline in average revenue per user (ARPU). Both fixed and mobile service providers are benefitting from an increasing demand for Internet access and broadband capabilities. This report contains key statistics and provides forecasts for 2010 and 2015 for all market sectors, including mobile ARPU which is expected to slide further for voice services but can also be increased significantly if the operators succeed in truly transforming themselves into converged service providers, absorbing much of the broadband market on top of the mobile voice market.
Last Update: 3 Jul 2009 Number of Pages: 7

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