MAP > Internet Providers in Madagascar

The Madagascars economy has clearly shown the steady development as of late, that benefits the revived the tourist sector. Significant plans to be able to exploit and export unrefined petroleum, gas and other natural resources to boost the economy. This is notwithstanding the declining costs of the different items on global markets, amid the period, financial yield is all around improved, and it helps in expanding consumer spend on telecom operators.

With regards to such services, they are somewhat less expensive and furthermore, this is because of strengthening rivalry between the significant operators, and this incorporates the Orange Madagascar, telco Telma, and the Bharti Airtel. Position four portable operator, by the name Blueline, currently operates their network had been the MVNO since the year 2010.

The positive developments on the internet, as well as the broadband sector, have been materializing following the arrival of first international submarine fiber optic cables, EASSy and LION on an island in the year 2009 and the year 2010. This later ended this country’s dependency on the satellites for the international connections, hence bringing down the cost of the international bandwidth and making the internet to be more affordable to the wider part of the population. IOX cable has been expected to be very ready for the service in early 2019 that will be able to offer additional capacity to be able to support the fast-developing mobile data market. Also, METISS submarine cable, which is expected to be very ready by the year 2019 and Africa-1 cable, expected to be ready by the year 2020, is going to offer some additional links to African Mainland as well as the other international cable systems.

The national fiber backbone has been implemented, going on to connect major cities and also, Telma does expect to be able to invest 0 million to be able to expand backbone network from 5000 kilometers to 11,000 kilometers by the year 2019. The wireless broadband access networks have been rolled out, thus enabling the converged voice, entertainment services, and data. The launch of the 3G and the LTE mobile broadband services have ensured that the mobile operators can easily reverse the rapidly declining average revenue for every user. Fixed line sector has undergone, and this is following privatization of the Telma. The Upgraded DSL services have also been introduced, and a decline in the fixed line revenue has also been reversed.