摘要

Home to one of the world’s most isolated cities, the fabled Timbuktu, and a generally challenging geography for the provision of telecommunication services, penetration rates in Mali are still below African averages in all market segments, including mobile. France Telecom was extremely successful when it entered the market as the second player in 2003 and quickly amassed more than 80% market share. With privatisation of the incumbent telco Sotelma planned for 2008, its mobile subsidiary Malitel has made great efforts to improve its coverage and services, which has lead to annual growth in excess of 130%. The government is planning to license a third mobile operator. The introduction of ADSL, WiMAX and mobile data services has started to accelerate growth in the Internet and broadband market. An improvement of international connectivity can be expected from the arrival of new competitive international submarine fibre systems to the region in 2008/09.

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