Gabon ICT Sector Research Highlights

Economic Update

Les opérateurs de télécommunications gabonais misent sur les données à forte valeur ajoutée pour relancer un chiffre d’affaires en baisse

In English Confrontés à un rétrécissement des marges et à une concurrence accrue dans le segment des données mobiles, deux opérateurs de télécommunications ont fusionné l’an dernier, tandis que les acteurs locaux envisagent de faire face au fléchissement de leur chiffre d’affaires à l’aide de stratégies de diversification axées sur les données. En fin d’année dernière,…

Country Report

The Report: Gabon 2016
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Gabon benefits from considerable hydrocarbons reserves, with the World Bank citing Gabon as the fifth-largest oil producer in Africa. Oil accounted for 70% of exports, 20% of GDP, and 40% of budget revenues in 2015. However, declining production and lower oil prices have seen economic growth slow. Diversifying the economy is therefore a priority for the Bongo Ondimba administration, as evidenced b

Overview

Gabonese government launches ICT initiative and goes digital
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Already the most developed market in Central Africa, according to the International Telecommunications Union, the expansion of Gabon’s ICT sector is high on the government’s priority list for the coming years, as it continues to push for economic diversification and private sector development. In 2015 the sector accounted for 5% of the economy, according to the National Agency for Digital Infrastructure…

Overview

Abderrahim Koumaa, Director-General, Gabon Telecom; Alain Kahasha, Managing Director, Airtel Gabon; George Akoury, CEO, Azur Gabon: Interview
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Interview:Abderrahim Koumaa; Alain Kahasha; George Akoury How has the advent of 4G and high-speed networks affected the local market? ABDERRAHIMKOUMAA: In anticipation of the increased use of data, recent years have seen great investments on our part, not only in 3G and 4G technology, but also in the move towards full internet protocol, and towards extending our national and international…

Overview

Gabonese telecoms providers rolling out fibre-optic network
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In line with its peers around the continent, Gabon’s telecoms sector is well developed and competitive, with 4G coverage and an overall penetration rate in excess of 100%. The industry is due for a shake-up in the near term, however, with the upcoming acquisition of one of the country’s four mobile operators by a fellow competitor. The merger will reduce Gabon’s four-operator market down to three,…

Analysis

Gabon's government digitising health care through ICT solutions
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In line with the government’s Emerging Gabon Strategic Plan, the ICT sector is rapidly expanding into many different areas of local life, from taxation to education to health. With an estimated 1.1m internet subscriptions as of March 2016, of which around 1.08m subscriptions were with mobile internet providers, Gabon has one of the highest internet penetration rates in Central Africa. As a result…

Chapter

The Report: Gabon 2016: Telecoms & IT
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Economic Update

Une nouvelle liaison fibre optique au Gabon pour accroître la connectivité du pays

In English Dans le cadre de son projet d’amélioration de la connectivité numérique, le Gabon a annoncé que les travaux d’interconnexion par fibre optique du Congo au Gabon devraient s’achever au mois de juin. L'installation du câble de 1 075 km de long, qui est clé dans le développement de l'Internet mobile et de couverture haut débit fixe au Gabon, était terminée à 70% en…

Overview

Net gains: Web access is set to continue to grow with government support
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Increasing demand for digital services and the commercialisation of access to Gabon’s second submarine cable are helping to lay the foundations for a rise in activity in the country’s ICT sector. Greater bandwidth – combined with mobile data coverage via 3G and 4G – is likely to boost the number of internet users in the country, but a push by the state to improve ICT service uptake through…

Interview

Laying the groundwork: OBG talks to Alex Bernard Bongo Ondimba, Managing Director, National Agency for Digital Infrastructure and Frequencies (ANINF)
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How will fibre-optics contribute to GDP growth? BONGO ONDIMBA: Fibre-optic infrastructure is a prerequisite to developing 3G and 4G networks in Gabon. As part of the Emerging Gabon strategy and ANINF’s Information System Development plan, three phases of development have been identified, all of which are part of the Central Africa Backbone project, or CAB4. The first phase links Libreville…

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