Africa Competitor Monthly Jun 14_14145327

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Prepared by Strategy and Research

For any questions contact Min Hua or Tersia Esbach

This month:

• MTN Uganda increased Mobile Money withdrawal fees

• Airtel launched a Virtual SIM platform

• Orange not selling its Egyptian operation• Tigo partnered with WorldRemit

The rest of the report:

• Competitor updates

• Vodacom OPCO operator updates

− Estimated subscriber numbers and market share

− Market updates

• Products and Services (Enterprise and Consumer )

• Economic and ICT indicators

• Competitors’ footprint in Africa

• Active operators in Africa


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Vodacom Strategy and Research July 2014C2 - Confidential

OPCOs • Airtel and the Tanzanian Government failed to agree on thesale of 35% TTCL shares owned by Airtel

• Mcel reduced the price of its Netmo

post-paid package. FNB (SA bank)

money transfer service between So

Competitors • MTN Uganda increase Mobile Money withdrawal fees

• Airtel launched a Virtual SIM platform

• Orange is not selling its Egyptian o

• Tigo partnered with WorldRemit to services

Nigeria • Nigeria is targeting 30% broadband penetration by 2017• Mobile money payments hit NGN271bn with 25m

transactions at the end of May, encompassing about 65,000

mobile money agents in the country

• Opened bid for the licensing of infr

deploy metropolitan optic fibre infra

equipment in Lagos and the North

on the 4th of August

Fines,Levies,

Sanctions

• Uganda levied a 10% Excise tax on Mobile Money

withdrawals

• Côte d'Ivoire’s regulator has fined the country’s six operators

XOF2.92bn (USD6m) in total for not meeting service qualityobligations. MTN was fined XOF1.34bn (USD2.78m), Moov

XOF 800.72m (USD1.66m), Orange XOF 46.29m

(USD0.1m), Comium XOF5.49m (USD11,373), GreenN

XOF4.85m (USD10,047) and Café Mobile XOF4.85m

(USD10,047)

• Nigeria’s regulator may sanction M

earlier directives concerning its dom

segment, which includes: not to off

on-net and off-net mobile voice serpromos on its network until QoS is

• Orange lodged an appeal with Mal

overturn a XAF6.86bn (USD14.23m

accusing them of illegal use of mob

service

Report • According to the June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Ericsson Mobility Report, mobile internet data hain SSA. Current usage is 76,000TB of data per month, compared to 37,500TB per month for 2013, and

147,000TB per month in 2015. The rise is prompted by increased social media, content-rich apps and v

report please go to the Vodacom Library or visit Ericsson.com

Things to note this month…

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General • Partnered with the Wikipedia Foundation to introduce freeaccess to Wikipedia to Rwandan subscribers

• Is looking for digital content partners for its 'MTN Play' web

portal in Ivory Coast. MTN is offering rights owners between

30 and 60% revenue share depending on the quality of their

content and the traffic they generate

• Launched the ‘MTN Kalast’ prepaid promotion in SouthSudan. It offers 7 days free on-net calls for a registration fee

of SDG10 (USD0.17), and can be renewed after 7 days

• Launched Mobile Money Visa card in South Africa

• Launched ‘Prestige Club' for high value

• Has been rated 276th among the top 500

corporate sustainability and environmen

Newsweek Green Rankings. Vodafone g

• MTN was the only African brand to make

100 Most Valuable Global Brand ranking

• Launched the ‘21 days of Y'ello Care’ eminitiative programme

• MTN Guinea employees went on strike o

pay. The situation was resolved 4 days l

Nigeria • The regulator may sanction MTN for failing to abide by itsearlier directives concerning its dominance in the voice

segment, which includes: not to offer differential pricing on

its on-net and off-net mobile voice services, and to stop

running promos on its network until QoS is improved

• The current Chief Marketing Officer of MTN Nigeria will bemoved to South Africa to assume a similar role

• A judge ruled against MTN Nigeria for te

with Tatacoms Integrated Resources Lim

was awarded to the plaintiff

• MTN Y’ello Care renovated six blocks of

Dania Primary school, as its contribution

in Lagos State

Ghana • Announced that more than 5m subscribers use its MobileMoney services per month, with over 2m registered MTN

users

• Introduced ‘Roam like Home’, a new roa

subscribers to pay local rates for Voice,

in any MTN operated countries

Uganda • Increased Mobile Money withdrawal fees in Uganda effectivefrom 1 August, due to a 10% Excise tax levied by

government on Mobile Money withdrawals

• Is suing Threeways Shipping Service, claiming the company

has defrauded MTN of USD4m between 2009 and 2012

• Launched ‘MTN mFaith’, a message ser

customers to get inspirational messages

Bible or the Quran. The service costs UG

day or UGX500 (USD0.2) per week

MTN increased Mobile Money withdrawal fees in Uganda…


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General • Signed a deal with neXva Inc. (global provider of white labelapp stores), to launch Airtel-branded mobile app stores in

Africa

• Entered into a group-wide framework agreement with

Movirtu to launch a Virtual SIM platform. The platform

enables users to temporarily activate their number on ashared handset. Already launched in Madagascar and DRC

• Launched iPhone 5 in Tanzania and Ghana

• Airtel Congo partnered with vehicle tracking company

Tramigo to offer the Tramigo real-time vehicle fleet location

service to customers

• Airtel and the Tanzanian Government

35% TTCL shares owned by Airtel. Th

TZS5bn (USD2.94m) government offe

valued at TZS3.8bn (USD2.23m), and

(USD12.63m)

• Launched a health insurance service ‘Faso, for XAF300 (USD0.62) per mon

• Airtel Zambia experienced a system e

customers lose their airtime, worth ab

(USD145,818). Airtel has refunded aff

them 30min on-net calls as added com

Nigeria • Partnered with Apple to unveil iPhone 5s in Nigeria. Airtel isoffering iPhone users zero interest financing and 500MB

data per month for 24 months

• Received the Best Corporate Website award at the WebJurist Awards

• Launched a discounted roaming pack

during the World Cup. Subscribers co

to Brazilian and Nigerian networks from

SMS rate of NGN50, and data rates of

Kenya • Launched a new offer that awards 25% bonus airt ime toprepaid customers when purchasing KES50 (or above)

worth of airtime using Mobile Money. The bonus is valid for

30 days and can be used on all services

• Announced its support for Immanuel Aproject, which promotes clean and che

Airtel launched a Virtual SIM platform…


5/17Vodacom Strategy and Research July 2014C2 - Confidential

General • Orange launched the first e-care app in Kenya, dubbed‘myOrange’

• Senegal's competing petrol station operators have called

for the State to invalidate an exclusive contract between

Orange and Total, due to an unfair advantage. CurrentlyOrange is steering customers to Total, offering XOF

5,000 (USD10.36) of free call credit on Orange Senegal

when subscribers buy XOF 50,000 (USD103.58) of fuel

• Denied reports that it plans to divest its

Egyptian operator

• Lodged an appeal with Mali’s Supreme

XAF6.86bn (USD14.23m) fine levied by

use of mobile bandwidth for a fixed line accused Orange Mali of breaking local t

mobile phone platform for its ‘Douba’ br

fine has subsequently been increased to

after Orange Mali refused to pay

Côte d’Ivoire • Orange and the BNP Paribas Group partnered to offer

retail banking customers direct access between their BNPParibas and Orange Money accounts

• Started LTE testing in Abidjan. Subscrib

mobile phone or tablet can test the techregulator has ordered Orange to pull 4G

does not have a 4G licence. ISP YooMe

licensed for 4G commercial services

Orange not selling its Egyptian operation…



General • Real Estate portal, Lamudi, launched the first Android app forhouse-hunters in the world. The App will host more than

400,000 property listings from Africa, Asia, the Middle East

and Latin America, giving international clients a free mobile

platform to buy, rent or sell real estate on the go

• Lamudi is a product of Africa Internet

developed through the partnership of

Rocket Internet (each owning a third

Tanzania • WorldRemit has partnered with Tigo Tanzania to allow theirclients to send money to friends and family living in Tanzania

via Tigo Pesa

• Partnered with Dar Teknohama Busi

in Tanzania to support a programme

local talent and employment in the co

Ghana • Tigo Ghana signed a USD2m agreement with theInternational Finance Corporation (IFC) and the MasterCard

Foundation to expand mobile financial services in the country

• Announced an investment programm

network and services. Tigo plans to i

day in upgrades until the end of Octo

emphases on fibre infrastructure

Rwanda • Millicom has acquired a controlling stake in Rwanda’s mainprovider of bank-to-bank payment switching services,

Rswitch – the company holds one of two switching licences

in the country

• Signed a four-year agreement with O

aimed at promoting youth and wome

through ICT

Tigo/Millicom partnered with WorldRemit to extend Mobile Money



*Vodacom internal reported that subscriber numbers for*Vodacom internal reported that subscriber numbers for Jun’14 was 10,638

DRC subscriber numbers and market sha

• CPI increased marginally, from 1.24% y-o-y d

April. Annual average inflation declined signif

compared to an average of 9.22% in 2012

Market update

Operators update: Tanzania and DRC…

• SEACOM partnered with CDNetworks to enhance Pan-African IP network

footprint in Tanzania

• Telecom Italia Group partnered with TTCL for the delivery of IP services in

South and East Africa, through a new point of presence in Dar es Salaam

• Despite decline in CPI, the y-o-y rate reached its highest level since Augustlast year at 6.5% y-o-y, due to base effects

Market update

Tanzania subscriber numbers and market share

1.23%

-17.98%

9.39%

8.33%

4.60%

Source: Informa WCIS 2014 estimated figures for subscriber numbers and market share(1) y-o-y % change – Calculated using WCIS Informa subscriber numbers

y-o-y %

change(1)

8 0898 349

3 187

1 8132 000

17

Airtel DRC Vodaco

Oasis Telecom Orange

Africell DRC Standa

9 785

10 471

8 604 9 319

6 2946 409

1 922 1 630

57 59

Vodacom Tanzania Airtel Tanzania Tigo Tanzania

Zanzibar Telecom Other op era tors



• CPI increased by its largest y-o-y margin sin

y-o-y recorded in May, compared to a readi

April

Market update

Operators update: Mozambique and Lesotho…

39.97%

79.83%

1.16%

y-o-y %

change(1)

* Vodacom internal reported that subscriber numbers for Jun’14 was 4,604

Mozambique subscriber numbers and market share

• Mcel reduced the price of its Netmovel Turbo 100 pre-paid package to

MZN500 (was MZN600), and its post-paid packages – Turbo 500 to MZN250(was MZN450) and Turbo 1000 to MZN500 (was MZN750)

• FNB (SA bank) launched a cross-border money transfer service between

South Africa and Mozambique

• Mozambique is looking to establish a multilateral partnership that willcontribute to the development and implementation of targeted government

policy for internet access at affordable prices

• CPI at 2.91% y-o-y in May, compared to 2.87% y-o-y in April

Market update

* Vodacom internal reported that subscriber numbers fo

Lesotho subscriber numbers and market

Source: Informa WCIS 2014 estimated figures for subscriber numbers and market share(1)

y-o-y % change – Calculated using WCIS Informa subscriber numbers

4 489 4 512

2 193

3 6873 436

4 633

Mocambique Celular Movitel Mozambique

Vodacom Mozambique

356

1 160

Econet Telecom Lesotho Vo


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Group(1)

• Recorded 210.1m subscribers, a 1.1% q-o-q growth, impacted by the ban on SIM card

sales in Nigeria during March, the disconnection of non-revenue generating subscribers

in South Africa and slower subscriber growth in Iran

• Group data revenue increased by 43.3% y-o-y, contributing 17.0% to total revenue

• Total registered Mobile Money subscribers at 16.6m, a 12.0% increase

Nigeria

• Subscribers grew marginally (0.8% q-o-q) to 57.2m, despite the SIM sale ban

• Market share down marginally to 49.3%

• Data revenue increased by 21.1% y-o-y, with avg. data usage per customer at

41MB/month. Increase was due to growth in 3G devices, which increased to 7.1m• ARPU decreased to 3,2% due to lower effective tariffs

• The operator added 483 2G sites and 597 3G sites

Ghana

• Subscribers up 1.0% q-o-q to 13.1m

• Data revenue increased 99.8% y-o-y, contributing 7.0% to total revenue. Growth was

due to Mobile Money drive

• ARPU increased 1,7% for the quarter

Uganda

• Subscribers up 8.4% q-o-q to 9.5m

• Data revenue increased 67.7% y-o-y, contributing 23,5% to total revenue. Mobile

Money is now the largest contributor to data revenue with nearly 50% of subscribers

actively utilising the service

• ARPU declined 13,5% for the quarter due to lower effective tariffs

Group(1)

• Total customer base 285.95m

• Total revenue USD3,6bn

• EBITDA up to USD1,184m, with an EBITDA m

• Capex of USD539m

Africa

• Africa revenue up 2% y-o-y to USD1,145m

• Non-voice revenue accounts for 19.6% of mo

• Data is 7.4% of mobile revenue

• Messaging and VAS are 9.3% of mobile reven

• Total revenues 4QFY14 were impacted by redcountries

• EBITDA grew 2% to USD290m - a 25.3% ma

• Capex down 25% y-o-y to USD176m

• ARPU down 7% y-o-y to USD5.5

• Customer base up 9% y-o-y to 69.443m

• Prepaid is 99.3% of total customer base

• Data is 32.1% of total customer base - a 53%

• Airtel Money customers increased 28.2% q-o-

value up 28.6% q-o-q to USD2.2m

• At the end of the quarter Airtel had 17,792 site

(1) MTN quarterly report 2014(2)

Airtel quarterly report 2014

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Group(1)

• Revenue at EUR9.8bn(2), a 3.8% y-o-y decline:-

− Excluding regulations, revenue declined by 3.0% y-o-y

• Revenue growth in emerging markets offsetting difficulties in Europe

• EBITDA at EUR3.0bn, 3.8% y-o-y decline, margin at 30.8%

• Capex at EUR1.2bn, 1.6% y-o-y decrease, 11.8% of revenue

• Group subscribers at 239.4m, a 4.2% y-o-y increase

Africa & Middle East

• Mobile customer base increased by 11.4% y-o-y to 91.3m

• Revenue at EUR1.0bn, increased by 5.7% y-o-y:-– Africa and Middle-East growth driven by Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast and

Egypt

• Orange Money at 9.9m customers, a 48% y-o-y growth

(1) France Telecom Orange’s quarterly results press release 2014(2) 1 USD = 0.72631 EUR

Group(1)

• Group revenue of USD1,405m, a reported y-o-y growth of 4% (8

accounted for 77% of revenue, Cable & Digital Media 15% and M

• Group EBITDA reported at USD478m with a margin of 34.0%

• Increased mobile customer base by 1.6m subscribers

• Capex of USD163m (11.6% of revenue)

Africa:

• Revenue up 7.2% y-o-y to USD244m. EBITDA at USD56m, a 21

• Total Mobile ARPU at USD3.5, a 10.0% decline

• Capex of USD38m, 15.4% of revenue

• Total mobile customers of 21.8m, a 19.5% y-o-y increase• Growth in net additions was stronger than the previous quarter, l

• Mobile Financial Services (MFS):-

– MFS penetration reached 54.5% of Tigo, Tanzania’s total mobile

– Rwanda’s penetration is at 38.0%

– Chad crossed the 10% penetration mark in the quarter

• e-Commerce/Online:-

– Jumia showed double digit growth during the quarter and more t

– Easy Taxi (mobile taxi booking service) launched in Ghana. Hell

launched in Tanzania, Uganda and Algeria. Kaymu (e-Commerc

Uganda, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Zambia. Lamudi (real estate

Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar and Ivory Coast.

expanded into Ghana and Cameroon

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Enterprise products and services launched Jun’14 to Jul’14

Enterprise Cloud App

Africa PayPal launched ‘PassPort’ a free site that provides information and tools to small businesses on country-specific customs, trends and shipping logistics , in an effort to

help businesses generate sales in those countries

East Africa Oracle has unveiled Oracle Database In-Memory, which will enable organizations to discover business insights in real-time

West Africa TI Sparkle, the International Services arm of Telecom Italia Group, and Dolphin Telecom have announced a new partnership for the provision and the development of IP

connectivity services in W est Africa

Tanzania SEACOM partnered with CDNetworks to enhance pan-African IP network footprint in Tanzania

Angola Unitel selected network solutions provider Mycom for an end-to-end mobile network and service performance management solution

Kenya

Sage Pastel has launched a mobile phone-based accounting system that monitors financial performance of a company in real time Sage

Paste

IKAZZ an Indian based technology firm expands to Kenya with its Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth-powered cloud-based payments platform IKAZZ

Nigeria

Seagate Technologies Limited partnered with Coscharis Technologies on IT solution

Nomanini (Cape Town-based technology s olution) partnered with Nigerian enterprise Aurora VM to expand into West Africa

Checkpoint unveiled software-defined protection security solutions

Zimbabwe Telecel launched an API for developers and merchants to integrate their services with Telecash

Congo Airtel Congo partnered with vehicle tracking company Tramigo to offer the Tramigo real-time vehicle fleet location service to customers


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Enterprise & consumer products and services launched Jun’14 to J

Enterprise and Consumer Tariff LTE

e-

Commerc

e-Payme

Multiple

Airtel signed a deal with neXva, Inc. (global provider of white label app stores), to launch Airtel-branded mobile app stores in Africa

Airtel Entered into a group-wide framework agreement with Movirtu to launch a Virtual SIM platform. The platform enables users to temporarily activate their

number on a shared handset. The s ervice has launched in Madagascar and DRC

Real Estate portal Lamudi launched the first Android app for house-hunters in the world. The App w ill hosts more than 400,000 property listings from Africa,

Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, giving international clients a free mobile platform to buy, rent or sell real estate on the go

East Africa

Guaranty Trust Bank launched a service that allows subscriber from MTN, Etisalat and Airtel to top up via its bank accounts

Microsoft launched an online portal dubbed 'Tuko W orks', which will provided free content on career guidance, access to online courses andentrepreneurship skills

Ghana,

Kenya,

Tanzania

GeoPoll, the world's largest real-time mobile survey platform launched ts Audience Measurement Service, which offers the first e ver daily TV ratings in

several African markets

Tanzania Telecom Italia Group partnered with TTCL for the delivery of IP services in South and East Africa through a new point of presence in Dar es Salam

WorldRemit has partnered with Tigo Tanzania to allow their clients to send money to friends and family living in Tanzania via its Tigo Pesa

Mozambique

Mcel reduced the price of its Netmovel Turbo 100 pre-paid pack age to MZN500 (was MZN600) and the post-paid packages of Netmovel Turbo 500 to

MZN250 (was MZN450) and Turbo 1000 to MZN500 (was MZN750)Mcel

FNB (SA bank) launched a cross border money transfer service between South Africa and Mozambique FNB

Angola Multitel selected Israel’s Telrad Networks todeploy TD-LTE technology Multitel

Ghana

MTN introduced ‘Roam like Home’, a new roaming tariff that allows subscribers to pay local rates for Voice, Data and SMS, whi le in any MTN operated

countries MTN

Tigo Ghana signed a USD2m agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the MasterCard Foundation to expand mobil e financial

services in the country

Surfline Communications launched 4G LTE technology in Ghana Surfline

Kenya Asus launched the Asus Transformer T100, which they classifieds as a mobile laptop in Kenay for KES49,000 (USD550)

Fountain Enterprise Programme and MobiKash launched the Lipa Sasa Na MobiKash merchant payment service. MobiKas

Nigeria Digital Jewels Limited unveiled the Cyber Threat Barometer

Uganda MTN increased Mobile Money withdrawal fees in Uganda effective from 1 August, due to a 10% Excise tax levied by government on Mobile Money

withdrawals MTN

Zimbabwe

EcoCash teamed up with W orldRemit to offer instant international money transfers to EcoCash mobile wallets

TelOne, Eagle Insurance, First Mutual Life, Old Mutual, Zimnat and Nyaradzo signed an agreement for the payment of fees through Telecel

TelOne and the City of Bulawyao signed agreements with Telecel for the payment of telephone bills and m unicipal bills with telecash

Cote d’Ivoire Orange and the BNP Paribas Group partnered to offer retail banking customers direct access between their BNP Paribas and Orange Money accounts

C d d i l h d


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Consumer products and services launched Jun’14 to Jul’14

Consumer Promotions Mobile

Money VAS App

Tanzania,

Ghana Airtel launched iPhone 5 in Tanzania and Ghana

Ghana Tecno launched the R7, a 1.5 GH¢ 6 Core Processor handheld device

RLG introduced the G52 Sports Lim ited Edition, the latest ‘TV phone’ for football fans

Kenya

Airtel launched a new offer that awards 25% bonus airtime to prepaid customers when purchasing KES50 or above worth of airtime using

Mobile Money. The bonus is valid for 30 days and can be used on all services Airtel

Orange launched the first e-care app in Kenya dubbed ‘myOrange’ Orange

XTouch X3 Hexa-Core smartphone was launched in Kenya

StarTimes reduced its decoder prices

Microsoft launched the Nokia XL in Kenya for KES15,500

Nigeria

Airtel partnered with Apple to unveil iPhone 5s in Nigeria. Airtel is offering iPhone users zero interest financing and 500MB data per month for

24 months

Airtel launched a discounted roaming package for Nigerians in Brazil during the World Cup. Subscribers can make and receive calls to

Brazilian and Nigerian networks from NGN60, send SMS at NGN50 and NGN1/10kb of data Airtel

Microsoft Devices has introduced the first smart dual SIM Window s smartphone, Lumia 630 into the Nigerian market

Globacom partnered with Samsung on Galaxy S5

Samsung launched premium warranty for Galaxy S5 users with the Galaxy Gifts package Samsung

Samsung launched Dr. Samsung, a campaign that offer free service on all products, both under warranty and out of warranty items Samsung Samsung

Etisalat launched ‘Cliqlite’ devices, an educational product designed for children between the ages of nine to 15 years with pre-installed

educational content Etisalat

Uganda

MTN launched the ‘MTN mFaith’, a message service that will enable customers to get inspirational messages like verses from the Bible or the

Quran. The service costs UGX100 (USD0.04) per day or UGX500 (USD0.2) per week

MTN

Uganda Telecoms introduced Do Not Disturb (DND), an option of opting out on receiving subscriber SMS alerts Uganda

Telecoms

Zimbabwe Econet cut its international tariff rates by up to 2 5% for countries in the region and also to ZAR0.20 (USD0.02) per minute for calls to the UK,

the US, China and Canada Econet

Burkina

Faso Airtel launched a health insurance service ‘ Airtel Mobil'Assur ’, in Burkina Faso, for XAF300 (USD0.62) a month Airtel

Liberia MTN launched ‘'Prestige Club' for high value customers in Liberia MTN

Cellcom introduced the Mobile Reader app, which will give subscribers free access to eBooks Cellcom

Rwanda MTN partnered with the Wikipedia Foundation to introduce free access to Wikipedia to subscribers MTN

Rwanda to launched ‘Kiguzo Attendance Tracking System’ an app to track school absenteeism Governmen

South

Sudan

MTN launched the ‘MTN Kalast’ prepaid promotion in South Sudan. It offers 7 days free on-net calls for a registration fee of SDG10

(USD0.17), and can be renewed after 7 days MTN

N i l d d i l h d


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Non-commercial products and services launchedJun’14 to Jul’14

Non-commercial Infra-

structure

ICT

Development

Merger &

Acquisitio

Multiple

countries MTN Group launched 21-day employee volunteer initiative ‘ Y'ello Care programme’

East Africa Liquid Telecom completed the construction of the East Africa Fibre Ring which connects Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania; creating the first

fully redundant regional fibre ring

Liquid

Telecom

Tanzania Tigo partnered with Dar Teknohama Business Incubator (DTBi) in Tanzania to support a programme aimed at promoting local talents and

employment in the country through ICT Tigo

Ghana

MTN Foundation donated school items and office furniture to the Roman Catholic Primary and Junior High schools at Fumso

Tigo announced an investment program to improve its network and services. Tigo plans to invest USD100,000 a day in upgrades until the end of

October, with initial emphases on fibre infrastructure Tigo

ITU awarded Ghana the Project Prize 2014 Award in Rural Telephony for bridging the communication gap in rural communities

Kenya

Airtel anounced its support for Immanuel Afrika’s (I-Afrika) biogas project, which promotes clean and cheaper energy sources

Kenya launched the Integrated Financial Managem ent Information System (IFMIS), which will post all government tenders, bids and contracts in

Kenya online, and combat corruption

Phase 2 of the National Optic Fibre Broadband Infrastructure (NOFBI) is under way which expands Kenya’s fibre optic coverage with an additional

1,600KM NOFBI

The government plans to process license applications through online and mobile platforms

ICT Authority signed a three year Memorandum of Understanding with Huawei Technologies to enhance skill development in the ICT sec tor Huawei

Nigeria

Nigerian mobile-phone manufacturer, Tingo Mobile, will buy a majority stake in Mass Telecom Innovation Nigeria Plc (MTI) for about NGN4bn

(USD25m) to develop rural broadband

Tingo Mob

MTI

MTN Y’ello Care renovated six blocks of classrooms in Basiru Dania Primary school, as its contribution to improve education in Lagos State

Data Power Technologies Limited and hum an resources management firm, Primex Consulting have partnered to train the youth in I CT Data Power

UNICEF launched ‘U-report’ a free SMS-based communications technology to enable accountability in governance, health, education, the

environment and other areas of community endeavour through social mobilisation

Uganda Smile Communications will provid government schools with a free router and 20 GB's of free data on the 4 G LTE platform every month Smile

Liberia Cellcom launches new 4G tower on Cuttington University Campus Cellcom

Rwanda

Millicom has acquired a controlling stake in Rwanda’s main provider of bank -to-bank payment switching services RSwitch, the company holds one

of two switching licences in the country Tigo/ Millic

Tigo signed a four-year agreement with One UN Rwanda aimed at promoting youth and wom en employment through ICT Tigo


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Economic and ICT indicators for Vodacom’s operating countries

Tanzania

DRC

Mozambique

Lesotho

Communications (est.)

• Main Fixed-line (2014)(2)

• Fixed-line Penetration (2014)

• Mobile Subscribers (m) (Jun’1

• Mobile Penetration (Jun’14)(3

• Internet Penetration (2013)(2)



• Fixed-line Penetration (2013)(2


• Mobile Penetration (Jun’14)(3)




• Fixed-line Penetration (2013)(2


• Mobile Penetration (Jun’14)(3)




• Fixed-line Penetration (2014

• Mobile Subscribers (m) (Jun

• Mobile Penetration (Jun’14)(3

• Internet Penetration (2014)(2

General Economic Indicators (2014 est.)

• Population Size (m)(1) 69.4

• GDP per Capita (USD)

PPP)(1)

470




PPP)(1)

2 150




PPP)(1)

1 170




PPP)(1)

1 730

(1) EIU, 2014(2) Budde, 2014(3)

WCIS, 2014

22.4 24.026.0 28.1

6.9 7.1

8.2 8.0

2012 2013 2014 2015

Real GDP (USD bn)GDP (% real change pa)

11.1 12.013.0 14.1

7.2 7.9

8.2 8.5

2012 2013 2014 2015


10.5 11.212.0 12.9

7.4

6.5 7.3

7.6

2012 2013 2014 2015

Real GDP (USD bn)

GDP (% real change pa)

1.92.0

2.12.2

4.0 4.6

5.4 5.5

2012 2013 2014 2015



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Competitors in Africa – Apr’14(1)

The table displays the key Mobile Operator footprint in Africa. Orange has the biggest footprint in 18 countries, f

(1)

Various company websites, updated on a quarterly basis, next update will be in the July issue

Orange Bharti Airtel MTN Etisalat Vodacom &

Vodafone Millicom/Tigo

La

N

Number of

operations 18 17 16 10 8 7

Botswana Burkina Faso Benin Benin DRC Chad Côte

Cameroon

Chad

Botswana

CAR

Egypt

DRC

Sierr

CAR Congo Cameroon Côte d'Ivoire Ghana Ghana Sout

Côte d'Ivoire DRC Congo Egypt Kenya Mauritius Uga

DRC

Gabon Côte d'Ivoire Gabon Lesotho Rwanda Note:

Leone

deploy

Egypt

Ghana Ghana Niger Mozambique Senegal

Equatorial

Guinea Kenya Guinea Nigeria South Africa Tanzania

Guinea Madagascar Guinea-Bissau Sudan Tanzania

Note:

Millicom is

present in South

Africa, Kenya,Nigeria,

Morocco, Egypt,

Ivory Coast,

Senegal and

Ghana, via its

online and e-

Commerce

services

Guinea-Bissau Malawi Liberia Tanzania

Note: Vodafone has

a partnership with

Almadar Aljadd in

Libya

Kenya Niger Nigeria Togo

Madagascar

Nigeria

Rwanda

Mali Rwanda South Africa

Mauritius Seychelles Sudan*

Morocco Sierra Leone Swaziland

Niger Tanzania Uganda

Senegal Uganda Zambia

Tunisia Zambia Note: *MTN does no

split between Sudan

or South Sudan Uganda

N b f ti bil t t f A ’14(1)


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Number of active mobile operators per country in Africa

1 2 3 4 5 6

Comoros Islands Angola Algeria CAR Benin Côte d'Ivoire TanzanDjibouti Cameroon Botswana Congo Burundi Ghana Ugand

Eritrea Cape Verde Burkina Faso Gabon Guinea Republic Somalia

Ethiopia Lesotho Chad Gambia South Sudan DRC

Sao Tomé & Principe Libya Egypt Kenya

Swaziland Malawi Equatorial Guinea Liberia

Mali Guinea-Bissau Niger

Seychelles Madagascar Sierra Leone

Togo Mauritania South Africa

Mauritius

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Rwanda

Senegal

Sudan

Tunisia

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Number of active mobile operators per country as of Apr’14(1)

The most common, and seemingly most sustainable number of operators per African country appears to be three, with outliers like Nigeria

Uganda (8). There are still a number of African countries that have a monopolistic market

**Bharti Airtel has announced its acquisition of Warid Uganda and Congo, but the operators will remain separate entities until further notice

(1) WCIS, Informa Telecoms, updated on a quarterly basis, next update will be in the July issue

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