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 Zambia - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics
Zambia has an independently regulated telecoms sector with three competing mobile networks and a monopoly fixed-line operator, Zamtel. While the mobile sector has experienced excellent growth, market penetration is still below the African average. The fixed-line network is at a very low level of development, which in turn has impeded growth in the Internet sector. The country's ISPs are rolling out wireless broadband networks, which will also position them as competitors in the telecoms sector once Internet telephony (VoIP) is fully liberalised - a key component in Zambia's new ICT Policy. A national fibre backbone is under development, including a connection to one of the several international submarine fibre optic cables that will reach the African east coast in 2010, which should help to reduce the cost of international bandwidth for the landlocked country.
Last Update: 4 Jun 2009 Number of Pages: 17
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