Algeria’s third mobile operator, Djezzy, will soon be 100% government-owned. Its foreign shareholder VEON has decided to pay more attention to its activities in Eastern Europe and Asia. The difficult year 2020 for the group contributed to this decision. The Veon company specialized in providing connectivity services and Internet, announced Thursday 1 st July the exercise of its put...
The Algerian government has maintained competition in the national telecoms market. It approved the continuity of the activities of Mobilis and Djezzy. The two operators, with the largest number of subscribers, play a major role in the country’s digital transformation. Mobilis, a subsidiary of Algeria Telecom, and Djezzy have obtained the renewal of their license to establish...
Algeria’s three cellcos Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo will receive new frequencies in the 2300MHz spectrum band for the first time as part of initiatives to improve data speeds and quality of mobile broadband internet access, it has been announced by Minister of Post & Telecommunications Brahim Boumzar, as reported by Agence Ecofin. The move was...
Algerian mobile network services provider Ooredoo Algeria has deployed Nokia’s cloud-native Core software to bolster its core network capacity and reliability as it prepares to deploy new services. A statement released by the company details its investment in a cloud-based network “with near-zero-touch automation capabilities and high-level operational efficiencies.” The deployment follows Nokia’s support to...
The Covid-19 has increased the social and economic interest of the Internet around the world. Anticipating the continued growth in consumer demand for connectivity, Ooredoo Group is also preparing the telecoms networks in its African markets to respond effectively. Ooredoo Algeria and Ooredoo Tunisia will see their telecoms network evolve towards 5G by 2026. Like the...
Ooredoo Algeria has taken a step closer to its ambition to offer its subscribers a resilient network capable of withstanding unexpected situations. The telecoms company has succeeded in increasing its mobile backhaul capacity to 10 Gbps. Siae Microelettronica gave him a boost for this qualitative leap. The mobile operator Ooredoo Algeria announced on October 21, 2020 the...
Because they have not corrected the poor 4G coverage observed in the first quarter of 2020 in five Wilayas in Algeria, ARPCE sanctioned the telecoms companies Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo. They will have to pay a global fine of $ 1,336,000. The Regulatory Authority for Post and Electronic Communications (ARPCE) has imposed a financial penalty against...
From next month, Algeria will connect to a new submarine fiber optic cable. Brahim Boumzar the Minister of Telecoms revealed it on September 7th. This will be the 4 th infrastructure broadband telecom that will tie the country after the SEA-ME-WE 4, the Medex and Orval. Algerian Post and Telecommunications Minister Brahim Boumzar announces Algeria’s connection next month to...
Algerian telecommunications services provider Djezzy has completed a trial of Nokia ultra-high network capacity technology initiated to meet the demand from increasing mobile traffic. Djezzy trialled Nokia’s Wavence microwave transport solution, with a capacity of 8.5Gbps over a distance of 5.7km. With its reduced latency and high capacity, the partners said the solution will allow...
Following the departure of Ooredoo Algeria’s CEO Nikolai Beckers in late February 2020, the company has announced the appointment of Bassam Yousef Al Ibrahim as Deputy General Manager, effective 1 March 2020. Local media reported that the order to immediately expel and deport Beckers was issued directly by Algerian President Abdelmajid Taboun in response to...
