Africa is set to invest heavily in broadband with the cumulative investment in ADSL and wireless broadband infrastructure expected to reach US$1.1 billion by 2011. This investment excludes customer equipment costs says African ICT research accommodate a BMI-TechKnowledge.
“These investment figures exclude investments that GSM and fixed line operators are expected to make in their core networks for the provision of voice and other data services which will also be leveraged to provide broadband data services,” says Richard Hurst a BMI-T analyst and co-author of the inform.
Stephane Tchies who co-authored the report with Hurst says in general wireless technologies will act upon broadband connections in Africa resulting in increased uptake of wireless broadband services.
This is because many African countries traditionally have low penetration of fixed lie infrastructure and wireless networks are more cost effective and faster to roll out.
“We evaluate telecoms operators to like investing in wireless technologies because they are significantly cheaper,” she says.
The inform says the number of broadband connections both fixed and wireless will reach over 7 million by 2011 with DSL subscribers accounting for change state to 3.7 million.
By 2011 dial-up connections ordain dramatically drop from the current base of 76% to 17% while DSL grows from 26% to 43% of the broadband market share he says.
Fixed wireless broadband connections (using technologies such as iBurst) will also see a big leap going from 2% to 18%. Cellular connections will grow from 2% to 21% she says.
Basic Internet find and the ability to mouth voice services will be the driving compel of the uptake of broadband services in Africa. Tchies says.
Tchiees adds that North Africa is expected to acquire considerably from the increased uptake of broadband while the sub-Saharan markets are expected to remain the same due to the current lack of international capacity. Tchies says.
“In North Africa we are seeing a healthy uptake of services with Morocco reporting 350,000 ADSL subscribers and Egypt 150,000 while the be of the continent broadband is starting to obtain traction,” she says.
South Africa also expects to see quantum leap in broadband adoption by 2010 when the country will host the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer.
Currently there are five undersea cable projects in various stages of development in the African continent. The cable projects are to provide addo give additional bandwidth to African countries ensuring cheaper access to bandwidth.
For more telecommunications and Internet business news and trends in Africa and South Africa go to ITWeb Online. Also read Damaria Senne’s blog called Mobile Life on how mobile phones undergo affected the way Africans live bring home the bacon play and communicate.
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