| Nigeria Drives Growth Of CDMA2000 Technology Application In Africa |
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| Wednesday, 16 May 2007 | |
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Nigeria has taken initiative in telecom sector and is banking on CDMA2000, providing reliable voice and broadband services to users. Nigeria, presently, is making good news from the telecom market, a consequence of advantage of free-market policy launched in 2001 by President Obasanjo. The CDMA Development Group’s (CDG) has announced that CDMA2000 is “technology of choice for 3G services” in Africa and the Middle East, the technology already operational, now Nigeria is reaping its benefits, as per the news published on Vanguard . Nigeria has CDMA started via Starcomms’ 3G mobile early current year, moreover the country is on the verge of witnessing a further roll out in WCDMA and the GSM Association is exploiting its ‘3G for all’ initiative fully. CDMA2000 is perfect resolution to fulfill the increasing demand for inexpensive mobile and fixed line telecom services in Nigeria – the expanding mobile domain. Operators offer affordable broadband Internet and voice access to users, in addition to several other value-added information services that are offered for the benefit of government, consumers, enterprise, and education users in densely populated urban areas as well as scarcely inhabited rural areas. The CDMA industry's network has harnessed considerable economies of scale and scope due to technology's better spectral competence and abundant expenditure cutback inventiveness. All these have facilitated CDMA2000 to develop into most reasonable alternative for distributing 3G services in Nigeria’s mobile markets. At present, Nigeria is considered to be a highly competitive market with five CDMA networks and four GSM players involved as active player in mobile segment. Nigeria's mobile subscriber number was 30 million in 2006, an increase from 18.6 million at 2005-year end. With population of 130 million in Nigeria, it is Africa's most populated country. In spite of towering annual expansion, the country's diffusion rate was 19 percent vis-à-vis 77 percent of South Africa Mobile market growth rate. As per a research analyst at RNCOS, “Nigeria is driving CDMA encouragement in continent, and it is a good indication of better effects to ensue in the mobile sector as CDMA 20001X is preference technology, which can offer preferred voice and data communications services wherever it is positioned. For the users of CDMA 20001X, the quality of service is consistent and superior.” Related Market Research Reports: |
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