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2006 November issue

Fiberoptic Cable Markets in Africa

Africa consists of fifty-five countries that accounts for 20% of the Earth’s landmass, and 14% of population, but in 2005 represented 2% of the world’s wireline main telephone lines, 2% of the world’s total telecommunications revenue, and 2% of the world’s fiber demand.

Given Africa’s relatively small contribution to the worldwide telecom market one might question this market’s importance. For perspective Africa has the most number of countries with geographic areas greater than 100,000 km² with thirty-eight as shown in Table 1-1.

Fiberoptic Cable Markets in Africa

Fiberoptic Cable Markets in Africa, a new 72-page FTTx report, forecasts that from 2005 through 2011, cabled-fiber demand in Africa will grow at a CAGR of 15% to reach 3 million fiber-km. The demand in the near term is driven by both incumbents and alternative operators building out long-distance networks. After 2008, a combination of fiber deployments in metropolitan rings, and local loops by incumbents will account for almost 50% of cabled-fiber demand.

According to Patrick Fay, who directed this project for KMI Research-CRU, fiber demand is strongest in East (Tanzania) and West Africa (Nigeria) as alternative wireless providers build out nationwide networks to better manage operational expenses, but also to provide greater connectivity to new undersea cable systems with landing stations in those regions. Total fiber deployments by alternative operators in 2006 and 2007 will account for at least 33% of all African fiber demand.

The fiber deployments covered in this report include fiber demand by operator in fifty-four countries. Demand is aggregated by country, region, operator, and application. The report covers the installation of fiberoptic cable by country, region, operator, and by application. It includes an Excel file with fiberoptic cable deployments by route-km, fiber count and by fiber-km for incumbents, alternative operators, and power utilities. The data are aggregated into five geographic regions: North, West, East, Middle and Southern Africa.

Released in December 2006.

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