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Table A2.4 Status of Market Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2009 Number of mobile operators Comoros Eritrea Ethiopia São Tomé and Principe Swaziland Angola Cameroon Cape Verde Chad Equatorial Guinea Lesotho Malawi Mali Mozambique Namibia Togo Botswana Burkina Faso Congo, Rep. Gabon Gambia, The Guinea-Bissau Madagascar Mauritania Mauritius Rwanda Senegal Seychelles South Africa Sudan Zambia Zimbabwe Burundi Central African Republic Kenya Liberia Niger Sierra Leone Benin Congo, Dem. Rep. Côte d’Ivoire Ghana

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HHI, 2009, except where otherwise noted 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 5,638 5,098 7,214 5,037 10,000 6,800 5,626 6,800 5,050 6,717 5,724 [2008] 4,432 4,047 4,425 4,584 n.a. 6,250 3,528 5,092 [2008] 5,160 7,828 5,408 n.a. 4,108 4,402 5,478 4,977 [2008] 5,276 [2007] n.a. 6,630 n.a. 4,890 3,522 2,411 3,242 2,856 3,332 (continued next page)

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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