Nigeria's Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market, 2019 - Nigeria Updates Broadband Penetration Target for 2021 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Nigeria's telecommunications market. The report analyses the fixed-line, mobile and broadband sectors.

Subjects include:

  • Market and industry analyses, trends and developments
  • Facts, figures and statistics
  • Industry and regulatory issues
  • Infrastructure developments
  • Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, ARPU, MoU
  • Mobile Voice and Data Markets
  • Broadband (FttP, DSL, cable, wireless)
  • Mobile subscribers and ARPU
  • Broadband market forecasts
  • Government policies affecting the telecoms industry
  • Market liberalisation and industry issues
  • Telecoms operators - privatisation, IPOs, acquisitions, new licences
  • Mobile technologies (GSM; 3G, HSPA, LTE, 5G)

Nigeria has one of the largest telecom markets in Africa, supported by the second largest economy on the continent after South Africa. The economy has recovered from a recent recession, with GDP growth of 1.9% in 2018. This has helped the telecom sector to attract foreign investment, particularly from China, while government infrastructure programs are also stimulating investment.

The regulator has licensed a number of regional infrastructure companies (InfraCos) to build the national broadband network and offer the capacity to all service providers on a non-discriminatory, open-access and price-regulated basis. This is helping to boost the country's fixed-line broadband sector, which has seen considerable consolidation among players in recent years.

The government has updated its broadband ambitions, aiming to increase penetration from 30% by 2020 to 70% by 2021 though most connections will be via mobile networks. The sector is still dominated by GSM technology, though a greater reliance on LTE infrastructure is expected in the coming years, supported by improved terrestrial fibre networks to provide backhaul for data services.

Key Developments

  • Globacom commissions the Glo-2 cable system
  • Government approves $328 million loan to complete national backbone project
  • Regulator licences additional InfraCos
  • Government pledges to deploy 18,000km of fibre to extend broadband to rural areas
  • Two additional satellites proposed to provide additional capacity to NigComSat
  • Swift Networks to add an additional 10,000 hotspots in Lagos, reaching two million people
  • Digital broadcasting migration process begins in six states
  • MTN and Airtel apply for Payment Service Bank licence
  • Government commits to increasing mobile broadband penetration to 70% by 2021
  • Disagreements emerge among new shareholders of 9Mobile
  • Regulator calls for an additional 80,000 mobile base stations
  • Report update includes the regulator's market data to December 2018, operator data to Q3 2018, recent market developments

Topics Covered

1. Key statistics

  • Country overview

2. Telecommunications market

  • Historical overview

3. Regulatory environment

  • Regulatory authority
  • National Telecommunications Policy (NTP)
  • Nigerian Communications Act
  • West African common regulatory framework
  • Interconnection
  • Infrastructure sharing
  • Telecom taxes
  • Universal service
  • National Rural Telephony Program (NRTP)
  • National Information Technology Development (NITD) Fund
  • Backbone Transmission Infrastructure Project (BTRAIN)
  • Telecom sector liberalisation
  • Globacom's SNO licence
  • Regional fixed-wireless access (FWA) licences
  • International gateway licences
  • Unified licensing regime
  • Privatisation of Nitel

4. Fixed network operators

  • Nigerian Telecommunications (Nitel)
  • National backbone network
  • Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
  • Globacom
  • Network infrastructure
  • Fibre optic backbone network
  • International presence
  • Services
  • International expansion
  • VGC Communications
  • National Long-Distance Operators (NLDO)
  • Fixed-wireless network operators
  • MTS First Wireless
  • Mobitel Nigeria
  • Prestel (O-Mobile)
  • Regional FWA operators

5. Telecommunications infrastructure

  • Overview of the national telecom network
  • Backbone networks
  • National Information Infrastructure Backbone (NIIB)
  • NIPTI
  • Suburban Telecom
  • Phase3 Telecom
  • Backbone Connectivity Network (BCN)
  • Private networks
  • International terrestrial infrastructure
  • The Central African Backbone (CAB)
  • Nigeria - Niger link
  • Trans-Saharan Backbone
  • NNPC network
  • International submarine infrastructure
  • SAT-3/WASC
  • Glo-1
  • Main One
  • WACS
  • ACE
  • WASACE
  • Satellite
  • Rascom
  • NigComSat
  • O3b Networks
  • Data centres

6. Broadband market

  • Introduction and statistical overview
  • Market analysis
  • Internet Exchange Points (IXP)
  • National Broadband Plan
  • Broadband statistics
  • Forecasts - broadband subscribers - 2019; 2021; 2023
  • Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
  • Providers
  • Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
  • Other fixed broadband services
  • Broadband over Powerlines (BPL)
  • Fixed wireless

7. Mobile communications

  • Market analysis
  • Mobile statistics
  • General statistics
  • Mobile voice
  • Mobile data
  • Mobile broadband
  • Forecasts - mobile subscribers - 2019; 2021; 2023
  • Regulatory issues
  • GSM licence terms
  • Spectrum
  • Mobile Termination Rate (MTR)
  • Mobile tariffs
  • Unified licensing regime
  • Universal service
  • Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
  • Quality of Service
  • SIM card registration
  • Mobile infrastructure
  • International gateways
  • National mobile infrastructure plan
  • Tower infrastructure
  • Analogue networks
  • Digital networks
  • Other infrastructure developments
  • Major GSM mobile operators
  • MTN Nigeria
  • Bharti Airtel (formerly Zain/Celtel Nigeria)
  • Globacom
  • 9Mobile (Etisalat Nigeria, EMTS, Mubadala)
  • M-Tel
  • Major CDMA mobile operators
  • Multi-Links Telkom
  • Reliance Telecommunications (Reltel, Zoom)
  • Starcomms (Capcom)
  • InterC Network (Intercellular Nigeria)
  • Visafone
  • Mobile content and applications
  • Mobile money transfer, m-banking
  • M-health

Companies Mentioned

  • 21st Century Technologies
  • 9Mobile (Etisalat Nigeria, EMTS, Mubadala)
  • Accelon (Internet Solutions)
  • Airtel Nigeria (formerly Zain, Celtel)
  • Alheri Engineering
  • Backbone Connectivity Network (BCN)
  • Brymedia
  • Econet Wireless
  • Fibre Tech West Africa
  • Galaxy Backbone
  • Globacom (Glo Mobile)
  • Layer3
  • Linkserve
  • Main One (Mainstreet Technologies)
  • Mobitel Nigeria
  • MTS First Wireless
  • Multi-Links
  • MWEB Nigeria
  • Naija Wi-Fi
  • Nepskom Communications
  • Netcom Africa
  • NigComSat
  • Nigerian Telecommunications (ntel, Nitel, Pentascope, Transcorp, M-Tel)
  • O3b Networks
  • Odu'a Telecom
  • Phase3 Telecom
  • Pinet Informatics
  • Polestar
  • Prestel (O-Mobile)
  • Reliance
  • Starcomms
  • Starcomms (Capcom)
  • Startech Connection
  • Suburban Telecom
  • Suburban Telecom
  • Swift Networks
  • Traffic Network Services
  • VGC Communications (MTN Nigeria)
  • Visafone
  • Vodacom
  • WASACE
  • Zinox

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For E.S.T Office Hours Call 1-917-300-0470
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Related Topics: Telecommunications and Networks, Broadband, Mobile Networks