Mozambique’s Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband Markets Through 2018-2022 – ResearchAndMarkets.com

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– Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband – Statistics and Analyses”

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Although delayed by the long civil war which ended in 1992, Mozambique
was one of the first countries in the region to embark upon telecom
reform. As a result, some sectors have been opened to competition.

The mobile segment in particular has shown strong growth since the
introduction of competition in 2003 between Vodacom Mozambique and mCel,
the incumbent mobile subsidiary of the national telco Telecomunicaes de
Moambique (TdM). Mobile penetration remains far below the average for
the region.

Given that the country has relatively low fixed-line penetration there
is considerable room for further growth in coming years. This has been
stimulated by the launch of commercial services from the third operator
Movitel, which is backed by Vietnam’s Viettel.

In recent years the government has drafted legislation aimed at
enforcing the registration of SIM cards. At the end of 2016 almost five
million unregistered SIM cards were deactivated. Measures aimed at
sharing network infrastructure have helped reduce operational and
investment costs, and enabled players to provide converged voice, data
and TV services over single networks. Vodacom Mozambique was awarded
such a licence in mid-2018, and soon afterwards launched the country’s
first LTE service.

The poor fixed-line infrastructure has largely held back the market for
fixed-line internet services, and as a result mobile internet accounts
for most connections. The high cost of international bandwidth had long
hampered internet use, though the landing of two international submarine
cables (SEACOM and EASSy) has reduced the cost of bandwidth and so led
to drastic reductions in broadband retail prices.

There is some cross-platform competition, with DSL, cable broadband,
WiMAX, 3G and limited fibre broadband available. Further improvements
can be expected from the ongoing rollout of a national fibre backbone
networks by TdM and the mobile operators.

Key Developments

  • Regulator starts multi-spectrum auction process, imposes MTR cuts
    through to 2020;
  • Vodacom Mozambique secures Unified Telecom License, launches LTE
    services;
  • TdM and mCel begin restructure and merger exercise;
  • TdM contracts Intelsat for satellite broadband and backhaul services;
  • Liquid Sea and Africa-1 submarine cable systems to improve bandwidth;
  • Mozambique joins the Alliance for Affordable Internet, aiming to
    provide broadband at less than 5% of average monthly income;
  • Report update includes the regulators market data for 2017, operator
    data updates to Q3 2018, ITU market data updates, Telecom Maturity
    Index tables, charts and analyses, recent market developments.

Companies Mentioned

  • Telecomunicaes De Moambique (TdM)
  • Vodacom Mozambique
  • mCel (TdM)
  • Movitel (Viettel)
  • Teledata (TdM)
  • TV Cabo
  • Intra
  • Tropical Web
  • SEACOM

Topics Covered

1 Key statistics

2 Country overview

3 Telecommunications market

3.1 Market analysis

4 Regional African Market Comparison

4.1 Mobile and mobile broadband

4.2 Fixed and mobile broadband

4.3 TMI vs GDP

5 Regulatory environment

5.1 Telecommunications Law 1992

5.2 Basic Telecommunications Act 2004

5.3 Amended Telecommunications Act 2016

5.4 Regulatory authority

5.5 National Commission on Information

5.6 Telecom sector liberalisation

5.7 Privatisation

5.8 Interconnection

5.9 Universal service

5.10 Spectrum monitoring

6 Fixed network operator TdM

7 Telecommunications infrastructure

7.1 Overview of the national telecom network

7.2 National fibre backbone

7.3 Data centres

7.4 International infrastructure

8 Fixed-line broadband market

8.1 Introduction and statistical overview

8.2 Broadband statistics

8.3 Public internet access locations

8.4 Mozambique Internet Exchange Point (MOZ-IX)

8.5 Fixed-line broadband technologies

9 Digital economy

9.1 E-government

9.2 e-learning

10 Mobile market

10.1 Market analysis

10.2 Mobile statistics

10.3 Mobile broadband

10.4 Forecasts mobile subscribers 2018; 2020; 2022

10.5 Regulatory issues

10.6 Mobile infrastructure

10.7 Major mobile operators

10.8 Mobile content and applications

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