MAPA > Dostawcy Internetu Afganistan

Afghanistan has gained some momentum in the rollout of the fiber networks. This country has continued to get confronted with various challenges. After very many years of civil and war strife, an encouraging aspect of this country’s efforts to be able to rebuild has achieved some considerable success, evident in the creation of a functional telecommunication industry virtually from nothing. The efforts have been made to the roll-out of the fixed services, but this country telecommunications services have relied heavily on the mobile infrastructure. The fixed-line broadband market penetration has developed hugely over the past five years.

In the coming five years that is up to the year, 2023 development has been expected to be on the rise, but the 0verall market penetration is going to remain a bit low.

This country has been making some good progress on the roll-out of government project for the nationwide optical fiber backbone. MCIT has launched the Wakhan Corridor Fiber Optical Survey Projects, the first phase of the plan to be able to install the cross border fiber link that is connecting Afghanistan with the China Republic. This country has a very high competitive mobile market that has continued to flourish, and this is despite the background of ongoing conflict throughout this country.

Mobile sector has received some boost by the absence of the effective fixed line alternatives. Here, five mobile operators have been competing in this country’s telecom sector. This country has been able to experience some growth over the period that started 2012 to the year 2018 from the small base. The huge moderate growth has been predicted over the next five years to the year 2023. Afghanistan has enjoyed a big increase in the mobile broadband penetration over the last five years, but mobile broadband market has been on the early stages of growth as well as penetration over the coming five years to the year 2023 by which time that the market has been predicted to grow and reach the market penetration of about 30%. This mobile broadband has been driven by the rising level of mobile subscribers as well as strong competition.

Some of the key developments in the report include; mobile broadband market being driven by the rising level of the mobile subscribers and the strong competition, Afghanistan’s market experiencing some reasonable strong growth, MCIT launching Wakhan Corridor Fiber Optic Survey Project and this country making some good progress on roll out of the nationwide optical fiber backbone.