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Africa - Telecommunications Market, Regulatory and Infrastructure Overview

While being the worlds most rapidly growing market for mobile telephony and also home to the fastest growing fixed telephony markets in the world, Africa still has the world's lowest penetration rates and basic telephony provision remains a major need in many parts of the continent, particularly in rural areas. Many African countries are undergoing sectoral reform and foreign investors are scrambling for positions in this very lucrative market as privatisation and liberalisation are progressively being introduced. Explosive growth in the mobile sector has seen the number of mobile phones outnumber fixed lines in most African countries and in early 2006 mobile users constituted more than 80% of all African telephone subscribers. Other wireless solutions are also used to serve as substitutes for inadequate fixed-line infrastructure. A surge in demand for Internet access and broadband capabilities is expected to drive these developments further in the coming years. Overall, Africa's telecoms future looks very promising and offers great opportunities to service providers, equipment vendors and investors.

Last Update: 3 Mar 2006 Number of Pages: 20

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Table of Contents

1.	Synopsis
2.	Telecommunications market
2.1	Overview of Africa's telecom market
2.1.1	The wireless explosion
2.1.2	Internet and broadband market
2.2	Foreign investments in telecommunications
2.2.1	The Chinese vendors, Huawei and ZTE
3.	Regulatory environment
3.1	WTO members
3.2	National ICT policies
3.3	Deregulation and privatisation
3.4	Universal access
3.5	African Telecommunication Regulators Network (ATRN)
3.6	Telecommunication Regulators Association of Southern Africa (TRASA)
3.7	African Telecommunications Union (ATU)
3.8	West African common regulatory framework 2005
4.	Telecommunications infrastructure
4.1	Overview
4.2	Domestic infrastructure
4.2.1	Pan African Telecommunications Network
4.2.2	Comtel
4.2.3	East African Community digital transmission project
4.2.4	Intelecom II
4.2.5	Utilities
4.3	International infrastructure
4.3.1	Satellite networks
4.3.2	Submarine cable networks
5.	Related reports

Exhibit 1 - African countries with independent regulators - 2005