MAP > Internet Providers in Algeria

Although the Algeria fixed line of the penetration has been able to enjoy a steady decline for the number of the years, of the government, funded, have been continuing to ensure that the fixed line infrastructure getting extended to the underserved regions. The project has accounted for around 500 remaining communities, creates part of the universal service telecommunication program. This country relative developed infrastructure does include the national fiber backbone that was augmented with the new subsea link to the Valencia in the year 2017 April. Algeria has become part of 4500 kilometers terrestrial, the Trans-Saharan backbone network that is going to connect national network with the other fiber networks in this region.

The mobile penetration has been growing slowly, the sign which some level of the saturation of the market that has seen saturation reached. The Regulator was able to slow the issue, 3G license, while the LTE licensees do not launch the services until the year 2016. Irrespective of the tardiness there has been the significant gains in adoption of the LTE services. The coverage obligations together with the investments made in intervening months are going to ensure that the LTE services are going to be extended rapidly in the coming years in a bid to be able to secure the national internet coverage by the year 2022 target.

There has been an intensifying price in the competition between three MNOs; this is including Orascom’s Djezzy, Wataniya’s Ooredoo Algeria and Algerie Telecom’s Mobilis.  Combined with the increase in the taxes on the voice as well as the data service, the competition hurt the operator revenue. The development of Algeria’s fixed-line broadband selling market size has been hampered by limited reach of the fixed-line network as well as the capability of infrastructure to offer the broadband services. The success of UTS authorizations since the year 2016 has also meant that by the year 2018, the mobile internet got to account for a close to 92% of all the internet connections.

The report gets to cover Algeria’s fixed line of the telecom market, including the developments in terms of the infrastructure as well as the government efforts to extend the services nationally. This report reviews fixed broadband subscriber forecasts. Also, report covers mobile sector, and this includes the analyses on the operator strategies and the recent spectrum licensing and profiles of major players, the assessment of the operating and the financial performance as well as subscriber forecasts.