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Figure 5.8 Commercially Viable Broadband Network Coverage (Scenario 1, Shared Access) Swaziland Mauritius Equatorial Guinea Nigeria South Africa Rwanda Togo Ghana Benin Côte d’Ivoire Comoros Kenya Angola Sudan São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Uganda Cape Verde Burkina Faso Gabon Cameroon Botswana Seychelles Congo, Rep. Namibia Lesotho Mauritania Chad Sub-Saharan Africa Mali Tanzania Zambia Ethiopia Mozambique Sierra Leone Niger Malawi Burundi Guinea Zimbabwe Eritrea Gambia, The Central African Republic Madagascar Liberia Congo, Dem. Rep. 0

percentage of population efficient market frontier Source: Mayer and others 2009.

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Africa's ICT Infrastructure: Building on the Mobile Revolution

Published on Jun 29, 2011

Technology & Computing

World Bank Publications

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Africa’s ICT Infrastructure reviews how the investment in the sector has been financed and how the structure of the market has changed since the liberalization process started. It looks at the role of both private and public institutions as sources of financing for the sector and charts the emergence of investors from developing countries in leading the expansion of the sector across the region. In the context of these successful sector reforms, Africa’s ICT Infrastructure addresses one of the key questions facing regulators and policy makers: how far will this process go in delivering universal access to telecommunications services? By adopting an innovative new spatial modeling approach, the authors have mapped existing mobile network coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa and estimated the limits of commercially viable network expansion.

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