Executive summary
Ivory Coast secures mobile number portabilityCôte d’Ivoire continues to benefit from strong economic growth; though GDP has declined since 2014 the economy is still expected to have grown by about 7.4% in 2018, supported by strong export in cocoa and palm oil and with greater efforts to develop the manufacturing sector as well as mining for gold and developing oil exports. The relatively peaceful elections held in October 2015 secured a second term for President Ouattara, who has focused on rebuilding the country’s infrastructure and establishing economic and political stability.
Although it has two competing fixed network operators, the fixed-line sector is dominated by CI-Telecom. This operator is majority-owned by Orange Group and was merged with the Group’s local mobile network operator, Orange Côte d’Ivoire, in December 2016. This created a unified service operator able to provide converged fixed-line as well as mobile voice and data services. The merger was in line with the government’s aim of developing a telecom sector with a stronger focus on convergence. To this end the mobile licences were renewed in early 2016 as universal services licenses.
The strongest sector in the overall market is the mobile sector, dominated by MTN and Orange and with Moov (a subsidiary of Maroc Telecom) having about a quarter of the market by subscribers. The smaller operators KoZ (operated by the Lebanese Comium Group) and Green Network (backed by Libya’s LAP Green before becoming part of the Libyan Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology Company (LPTIC)), Warid telecom and Globacom have folded, had their licenses evoked, or have failed to launch services.
The fixed internet and broadband sectors have remained underdeveloped. This is partly the legacy of high international bandwidth costs caused by the incumbent having had monopoly access to the only international fibre optic submarine cable serving the country. This was addressed with the landing of a second cable in November 2011. Access to additional cables are providing significant reductions in retail pricing for DSL, WiMAX and EV-DO wireless broadband services.
Further progress has been made in building out the national backbone network, which in 2019 will be connected to the MainOne submarine cable. These developments will place the country in a better position to develop its broadband market and so encourage a prosperous digital economy.
Key developments:
Main One secures licence to provide connectivity services in Cote d’Ivoire, planning new Tier III data centre in 2020;
Orange Group to launch Orange Bank based on the Orange Money platform;
VipNet launches MNP;
0.5% tax on m-money transfers expected to bring in XOF10 billion annually;
Value of m-money transfers reaches XOF17 billion per day;
Government further tightens SIM card registration rules;
LPTIC loses its universal telecoms licence;
Orange CI and CI-Telecom complete merger, creating converged fixed-line and mobile operator;
MTN Ivory Coast commits to XOF120 billion network upgrade investment;
WiMAX operator YooMee deploys LTE;
Report update includes regulator’s market data to June 2018, telcos’ operating data to Q3 2018, recent market developments.Companies mentioned in this report:Côte d’Ivoire Telecom (CI-Telecom), MTN CI, Arobase Telecom, Orange CI (France Telecom), Comium CI (KoZ), Etisalat (Moov), LapGreen (Green Network, GreenN, Oricel), Warid Telecom, Globacom, CORA de Comstar, Aircomm CI, Mainstreet Technologies, Africa Online, AfNet, Aviso, Globe Access Internet (Omnes), Intel Afrique, Solaris Telecom, Africom, Afripa Telecom (Atlantique Telecom), Comete, Globe Access, Monicash.
'
1. Executive summary
2. Key statistics
3. Country overview
4. Telecommunications market
4.1 Market analysis
5. Regulatory environment
5.1 Historical overview
5.2 Regulatory authority
5.3 Telecom sector liberalisation
5.4 Universal service fund
5.5 Universal licences
6. Fixed network operators
6.1 CI-Telecom
6.1.1 Network infrastructure
6.1.2 Wireless Local Loop (WLL), CDMA-2000
6.2 MTN CI (Arobase Telecom)
7. Telecommunications infrastructure
7.1 Overview of the national telecom network
7.2 International infrastructure
7.2.1 Submarine fibre cables
7.3 Terrestrial fibre
7.4 Satellite
7.5 Data centres
7.6 Internet-of-Things (IoT)
8. Fixed-line broadband market
8.1 Introduction and statistical overview
8.2 Broadband statistics
8.3 Public Internet access locations
8.4 Fixed-line broadband technologies
8.4.1 Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
8.4.2 Fixed wireless (Wi-Fi and WiMAX)
9. Digital Economy
9.1 E-Commerce
9.2 E-agriculture
10. Mobile market
10.1 Mobile market
10.2 Mobile statistics
10.3 Mobile infrastructure
10.3.1 3G
10.3.2 4G (LTE)
10.3.3 Other infrastructure developments
10.4 Mobile data
10.4.1 SMS and MMS
10.5 Mobile broadband
10.6 Forecasts – mobile subscribers - 2019; 2021; 2023
10.7 Regulatory issues
10.7.1 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
10.7.2 SIM card registration
10.7.3 Roaming
10.7.4 Quality of Service
10.8 Major mobile operators
10.8.1 MTN Côte d’Ivoire (formerly Loteny)
10.8.2 Orange CI
10.8.3 Comium (KoZ)
10.8.4 Moov (Etisalat)
10.8.5 Green Network (Oricel, Lap Green)
10.8.6 Warid Telecom
10.8.7 Globacom
11. Mobile content and applications
11.1 M-money
12. Related reports
Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities – Côte d’Ivoire – 2018 (e)
Table 2 – Historic - Fixed lines in service and teledensity in Côte dIvoire – 1999 - 2009
Table 3 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity in Côte dIvoire – 2010 - 2018
Table 4 – Fixed lines in service by operator – 2013 - 2017
Table 5 – Fixed-line revenue and investment – 2005 - 2018
Table 6 – International bandwidth – 2003 - 2016
Table 7 – Internet access market revenue in Côte dIvoire – 2008 - 2018
Table 8 – Internet access market investment in Côte dIvoire – 2008 - 2018
Table 9 – Historic - Internet users and penetration rate in Côte dIvoire – 2000 - 2009
Table 10 – Internet users and penetration rate in Côte dIvoire – 2010 - 2018
Table 11 – Fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2018
Table 12 – ISP market share of subscribers – 2012 – 2018
Table 13 – Broadband subscribers by ISP – 2015 – 2018
Table 14 – DSL broadband subscribers – 2015 – 2017
Table 15 – Aviso DSL broadband subscribers – 2012-14; 2016-2017
Table 16 – Fibre broadband subscribers – 2015 – 2017
Table 17 – Fixed-wireless (WiMAX) broadband subscribers – 2015 – 2017
Table 18 - Historic - Mobile market revenue and investment - 2003 - 2009
Table 19 – Mobile market revenue and investment – 2010 - 2018
Table 20 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1997 - 2009
Table 21 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 - 2018
Table 22 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 - 2018
Table 23 – 3G subscribers by operator – 2014 - 2015
Table 24 – Active mobile broadband subscribers – 2013 - 2018
Table 25 – Mobile broadband subscribers by operator – 2016 - 2017
Table 26 – Forecast mobile subscribers in Côte dIvoire – 2019; 2021; 2023
Table 27 – MTN Côte dIvoire subscribers – 2002 - 2018
Table 28 – MTN Côte dIvoire revenue – 2012 - 2018
Table 29 – MTN Côte d’Ivoire ARPU – 2005 - 2018
Table 30 – Orange Côte dIvoire subscribers – 2002 - 2018
Table 31 – Orange Côte dIvoire revenue – 2011 - 2018
Table 32 – Comium Côte d’Ivoire subscribers – 2007 - 2016
Table 33 – Moov subscribers – 2012 - 2018
Table 34 – Green mobile subscribers – 2012 - 2016
Table 35 – Market share of m-money users by operator– 2017 - 2018
Table 36 – M-money users – 2014 - 2018
Chart 1 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity in Côte dIvoire – 2005 – 2018
Chart 2 – Fixed-line revenue and investment – 2005 – 2018
Chart 3 – Mobile market revenue and investment – 2010 – 2018
Chart 4 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate in Côte dIvoire – 2005 - 2018
Chart 5 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2018
Chart 6 – Orange Côte dIvoire revenue – 2011 – 2018
Exhibit 1 – Map of Côte d’Ivoire
