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investment in telecommunications in, 15 management contracts with private companies while retaining state ownership in, 96 mobile access in, 27, 28 mobile termination rates in, 103 private investment in ICT in, 124, 125– 26f, 126, 127 privatization in, 96 sensitivity analysis in, 167 stock exchange in, 134 telecommunications market in, 3 wireless broadband in, 177 wireless mobile broadband connections in, 84 Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. (NITEL), 76b, 94, 96, 116–17n18 North Africa. See Middle East and North Africa North American countries. See OECD countries NRAs. See national regulatory agencies
O OECD countries broadband speeds required in, 49 broadband subscriptions in, 31, 56 investments in African telecommunications market from, 11, 128, 129f, 132, 133f “off-budget” expenditures, 137–38 official development assistance (ODA), 138, 141 “on-budget” expenditures, 137 operating expenditure (OPEX), 152, 153t, 167 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development, 139 Oricel Green (mobile operator in Côte d’Ivoire), 139 ownership contracts with private companies while retaining state ownership, 96 fiber-optic backbone networks, 85, 86f fixed-line telecommunications, cross-border ownership, 8 liberalization’s effect on, 72 radio and television ownership by country, 264–65t
275
state-owned monopoly. See state-owned monopolies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs)
P Pentascope, 116n18 Phase 3 Telecom (Nigeria-based fiber-optic backbone network operator), 94 policy analysis, 20–24, 181–86. See also reform drivers of change, 184–86 sector objectives, 182–83 sector performance, 183–84 prepayment systems, 186 “price basket” methodology, 38, 39f, 67n8 prices, 3–4, 33–45 bandwidth on submarine fiber-optic cables, 92 expense of broadband, 2, 183 fixed broadband Internet, 4, 26, 46–47f fixed-line telecommunications, 4, 34, 35, 36f international services, 4, 38, 40, 42–43f liberalization and, 73 mobile service. See mobile telephony SAT-3 cable operators, 94 wireless broadband, 4, 48f private investment, 95–98, 124–30 amount of, 123, 125–26f greenfield investments, 11, 97–98, 127, 127f market liberalization and sources of, 11 origins of, 128–30, 129f patterns, 124–27, 125–26f, 126t stimulus of, 9 privatization, 11, 72, 86f, 95–97, 185 by country, 218–20t recommendations, 21, 188–89 procompetitive public support, 198 procompetitive regulatory measures, 191 PROPARCO (development institution), 140 public investment. See financing public phones, 30, 32f. See also Village Phone scheme public-private partnerships, 198
Q quality of services, 5, 45–50, 183–84