The Africa & Middle East Mobile Network Operator Directory 2013
AME MNO Directory
African countries covered ... Algeria - Angola - Botswana - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cameroon - Cape Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Comores - Congo Brazzaville - Côte d'Ivoire - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Djibouti - Egypt - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Gabon - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea-Bissau - Guinea-Conakry - Kenya - Lesotho - Liberia - Libya - Madagascar - Malawi - Mali - Mauritania - Mauritius - Mayotte - Morocco - Mozambique - Namibia - Niger - Nigeria - Réunion - Rwanda - São Tomé and Príncipe - Senegal - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - Somalia - South Africa - Southern Sudan - Sudan - Swaziland - Tanzania - Togo - Tunisia - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe Middle East countries covered ... Afghanistan - Bahrain - Cyprus - Iran - Iraq - Israel - Jordan - Kuwait - Lebanon - Palestine - Qatar - Saudi Arabia - Sultanate of Oman - Syria - Turkey - United Arab Emirates - Yemen |
The AME region has 242 active mobile network operators offering voice services over their own networks and infrastructure. These operations range from struggling networks with potentially just a thousand subscribers through to mega operators such as MTN with over 40 million active subscribers within just one country.
What is evident is that the region’s mobile sector is a different story to the crippling headlines seen across the world of poverty in Africa. While the Middle East clearly has an energy sector ploughing money into their collective economy, the African financial revolution over the past decade has seen investment pour in from Chinese and European markets, both cashing in on the resources that in some places are literally untapped. The Middle East market is a diverse mix of wealthy (high ARPU) subscribers made up of the indigenous populations and a massive immigrant working populous shipped in to build the next sets of infrastructure and long term projects that are being primed for when the energy market in its current status evaporates. This latter market present opportunities within the prepaid and roaming segments. The African opportunity on the other hand is not as glitzy but what it lacks in high value subscribers it makes up in sheer numbers. This continent has skipped the fixed line development seen by Western neighbours and in some cases has leap frogged the West in regards to 3G and mobile broadband standards commercially deployed. Glo Mobile Nigeria brought LTE services to their subscribers in January 2011, 8 months earlier than Deutsche Telekom launched the same service in their home country. This was only 3 months after Verizon USA launched their LTE offer. With over 1 billion mobile accounts in service at the end of Q2 2012 this market is imperative to your busdev plans. As with all our database publications, research was conducted in house and has built upon the previous editions. Subscriber data is at Q4 2012 (starting Q1 2008) and has been extracted from Blycroft’s weekly research service, Africa & Middle-East Telecom-Week. Other subscriber data has been extracted from operators and regulators. Management contacts are either as published by the operators or have been referenced within trade media. All data, including subscriber data is provided on a where possible basis and is provided to assist in building a profile of each operator. |
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