Africa - Fixed and Wireless Broadband and Internet Markets and Forecasts for 42 Countries - 2013

(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2v67cl/africa_fixed) has announced the addition of the "Africa - Fixed and Wireless Broadband and Internet Markets and Forecasts" report to their offering.

This annual report offers a wealth of information on the Internet and broadband markets in 42 African countries, including fixed and wireless access technologies and services.

Fibre networks are sustaining growth in Africa's Internet and broadband sector Large parts of Africa have gained access to international fibre bandwidth via submarine cables for the first time in recent years. In other parts of the continent, additional fibre systems have brought competition to a previously monopolised market. This has led to massive investments into terrestrial fibre backbone infrastructure to take the new bandwidth to population centres in the interior and across borders into landlocked countries.

Africa's Internet and broadband sector is set to benefit the most from these developments. Wholesale prices for Internet bandwidth have come down by as much as 90% from previous levels based on satellite access, and the cost savings are slowly being passed on to the retail level as well. Broadband is rapidly replacing dial-up as the preferred access method, and this process is already virtually completed in the continents more developed markets.

Most African countries now have commercial DSL services, but their growth is limited by the poor geographical reach of the fixed-line networks. Improvements in Internet access have therefore been mostly confined to the capital cities so far. However, the rapid spread of mobile data and third-generation (3G) broadband services is changing this, with the mobile networks bringing Internet access to many areas outside of the main cities for the first time.

Subjects covered include: - Key Statistics; - Market overviews and analyses; - Major Internet service providers (ISP); - ADSL; - WiMAX; - WiFi; - CDMA-2000 1x EV-DO; - Other services.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2v67cl/africa_fixed CONTACT: Research and Markets, Laura Wood, Senior Manager.

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