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Telecommunications infrastructure: Traditional and emerging challenges Temitope Osunrinde Marketing Communications Manager Price of broadband internet in Africa's largest economies *Fixed line internet. Cost in USD 2 Where to find the cheapest Broadband Internet in Africa 3 A comparative analysis of three African countries SOUTH AFRICA KENYA NIGERIA 4 submarine cables 4 submarine cables 5 submarine cables Broadband held back for many years by Launched its Broadband Policy in 2013, Broadband Plan, which set fixed an expensive operating environment planned 30k km expansion. broadband targets of 30% by 2018 created by Telkom’s dominance in the delayed for 5years. fixed-line market. nd Deregulation and entry of Neotel as 2 fixed-line operator and infrastructure Converged regulatory authority: Nigeria has 38,000 km infrastructure, operators like Vumatel, Dark Fibre Africa, Communications Commission of Kenya mostly owned by MNOs. Country needs FibreCo + MNOs such as Vodacom and (CCK) 120,000km Cell C Government also funded ZAR1.4b to 67% internet population. expand fibre network The Kenya government building its fibre Underutilization of 3 submarine cables, FTTX Council: number of houses passed optic submarine cable, “The East African $7bn investment by fibre has grown from 439,000 in 2017 Marine System (TEAMS)”. To catch up, Nigeria needs to expedite to 933,000 by March 2018: 112% YoY actions and take steps to assure growth broadband targets are achieved Government-funded National Optic Fibre South Africa remains the largest hub of Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI) project foreign direct investment (FDI) on the has built 5000km. Operators have also Smartphone costs still high. Nigeria continent. Microsoft announced plans to built about 4000km fiber infrastructure in ranks 143/176 in 2017 ITU ICT Index build 2 data centres in Africa 24 of Kenya’s 47 counties
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