MAPA > Dostawcy Internetu Mozambik

Mozambique has been preparing for the multi-spectrum auction. Despite the delayed by a long civil war that ended in the year 1992, with Mozambique being among the first countries in this region to embark upon the telecom reform. As a result of all this, there have been some sectors that have been opened to the competition. Mobile segment has been able to show the growth since introduction of the competition in the year 2003 between the Vodacom Mozambique and the MCel, with the incumbent mobile subsidiary of national telco by the name Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TdM).

The mobile penetration has remained far below average for this region. Given that this country has a relatively low fixed-line penetration having some considerable room for more growth in the coming years. Well, this has been enhanced by the launch of the commercial services from the third operator by the name Movitel that has been backed by Vietnam’s Viettel. In recent years, the government has been able to draft the legislation which is focused at enforcing registration of the SIM cards. By the end of the year 2016, close to five million sim cards which are unregistered got to be deactivated.

The measures have been aimed at sharing the network infrastructure have helped in reducing the operational as well as the investment costs, and it enables the players to be able to offer the converged voice as well as the data and the TV services over the single networks. Well, Vodacom Mozambique got to be awarded the license in the mid 2018k and later on, went ahead and launched nation’s debut LTE service. Poor fixed-line infrastructure has mostly held back the market for the fixed line internet services, and therefore the mobile internet accounts for the majority of internet connections.

The high cost of the international bandwidth has for long hampered the internet use, though landing of the two international submarine cables has greatly helped in reducing the cost of the bandwidth and so took the lead to the drastic reductions in the broadband retail prices. There has been some cross-platform competition with the DSL, WiMAX, 3G, and the cable broadband is available. More enhancements can easily be expected from ongoing rollout of the national fiber backbone networks by the TdM as well as the mobile operators.

Some of the key developments in this report:
- The regulator begins the multi-spectrum auction process that imposes the MTR cuts throughout to the year 2020.
- TdM and the mCel starts the restructure as well as the merger exercise.
- Liquid sea and the Africa 1 submarine cable systems to enhance the bandwidth.