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Research and Markets Adds Report: 'African Mobile Phone Subscribers and Operators' Performance, 3Q 2008'Feb 26, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "African Mobile Phone Subscribers and Operators' Performance, 3Q 2008" report to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include: Since the late 1990s, the number of mobile phone subscribers has been approaching saturation in developed countries worldwide, and Africa has been experiencing a surge of interest from multinational telecom operators who are looking for new opportunities. Coupled with the rapid development of its mobile telecommunications market, Africa has lured many large-scale multinational telecom operators to invest due to factors illustrated within this report. Coupled with their advantages in terms of finance and resources, multinational telecom operators have made forays into one or more African countries through mergers or acquisitions. Currently, multinational telecom operators with relatively large market scale include MTN, Zain and Orascom Telecom, which all operate in the Middle East and Africa. Coupled with share of Vodacom and France Telecom, the combined share of these multinational companies is estimated to account for 60 percent of the total market in Africa at end-year 2008. This report presents these mobile phone subscriber base in major African countries and also presents major operators' performance, examines their revenue, EBITDA margin and ARPU in Africa Companies Mentioned: - MTN - Zain - Vodacom - France Telecom Report information: http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6aeea8/african_mobile_pho ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |