"Nigeria
- Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Digital Media - Statistics and
Analyses".
The Report covers current Market Trends, Analysis, Forecast, Review,
Share, Size, Growth, Effect.
Description-
Nigerian
regulator hoping telecoms
accounts for up to 25% of GDP by 2025
Nigeria
has one of the largest telecom markets in Africa, supported by the
second largest economy on the continent after South Africa. Given the
potential for further growth, the sector attracts considerable
foreign investment. Far reaching liberalisation in recent years has
led to hundreds of companies, many of them small and localised,
providing varied telecom and value-added services in an effectively
regulated market.
The
mobile sector has benefited from market competition and the wider
deployment of LTE services during the last two years, which has
supported operator revenue and encouraged the adoption of mobile
broadband among subscribers. Other than the key mobile network
operators, there are a number of additional players operating under a
unified licensing regime.
After
a decade of failed privatisation attempts, the incumbent national
telco Nitel and its mobile arm M-Tel went into liquidation, with the
NATCOM Consortium acquiring the telco in March 2015 for some $252
million.
Nigeria
has the most competitive fixed-line market in Africa, featuring a
second national operator (Globacom) and over 80 other companies
licensed to provide fixed-telephony services. The alternative
carriers combined now provide around 85% of all fixed connections
while the ailing incumbent.
Several
microwave and fibre-based national backbone networks are being rolled
out by various companies. Nitel’s monopoly on international fibre
bandwidth via the SAT-3/WASC submarine cable system ended in 2009
when Globacom’s Glo-1 cable landed in the country. Additional
submarine cables which have landed subsequently, supported by
improved domestic fibre infrastructure, have delivered a further
boost to the country’s developing broadband sector by improving
bandwidth and reducing prices for end-users.
The
broadband sector has seen considerable consolidation among players,
from over 400 ISPs in 2012 to around 90 by mid-2016. Most internet
connections are via mobile networks, principally GSM and 3G and more
recently LTE, though there are a number of WiMAX operators which have
found niche markets.
Supported
by the expansion of national fibre backbone networks, platforms such
as e-commerce, online banking and e-payments, e-health, e-learning
and e-government are evolving rapidly. The government has continued
with its plan to increase broadband penetration to 36% by 2018 and to
enable over 80% of the population to be able to receive mobile
broadband via 3G and LTE technologies.
Nigeria
has Africa’s largest mobile market, with about 150 million
subscribers and a penetration rate of 107%. The rapid growth in the
number of subscribers led to problems with network congestion and
quality of service, prompting the telecom regulator to impose fines
and sanctions on the network operators. These operators have
responded by investing billions of dollars in base stations and fibre
optic transmission infrastructure to support the ever increasing
demand for bandwidth.
Efforts
are also being made to encourage network sharing and to outsource the
management of tower infrastructure to third parties. There remains
considerable growth potential in rural areas where the provision of
network infrastructure and operations is expensive, and consequently
where mobile penetration is lower. Competition of voice pricing has
encouraged operators to develop new revenue streams from mobile
broadband and data services, including m-payments and m-banking.
Although
the market is one of the most competitive in Africa, the industry
regulator between 2013 and early 2016 applied a price floor on voice
and data tariffs in a bid to prevent the dominant operators from
squeezing competitors. Following years of delay, Mobile Number
Portability (MNP) was finally introduced in 2013, and this has
stimulated market competitiveness. The terrorist group Boko Haram has
created difficulties for network provision and maintenance in the
northern states, a difficulty which neither the government nor
operators are properly positioned to address.
Key
developments:
MTN
Nigeria awarded spectrum in the 2.6GHz band for LTE use, extends
licenses for spectrum in the 900MHz and 1800MHz bands to August 2021;
NCC
and NITDA establish joint committee to collaborate on efforts to
develop the telecoms and ICT sectors;
Government
proposes new 9% tax tax on telecom services;
Regulator
hopes for the telecoms sector to account for up to 25% of GDP by
2025;
Government
shelves plans to sell NigComSat;
Regulator
starts licensing process to award spectrum in the 38GHz and 48GHz
bands and to re-plan use of the 23GHz band for broadband services;
Government
devising strategy to increase broadband penetration to 36% by 2018;
Visafone
acquired by MTN Nigeria, trials LTE in the 800MHz band;
Additional
base stations installed under the USPF program;
Airtel
Nigeria and Etisalat sell tower infrastructure;
Smile
Communications extends LTE;
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