Digital transformation and demand for broadband connectivity is accelerating across Africa. The Algerian government has made it its mission to guarantee the Internet to the entire population. The Algerian government has made the improvement of the quality of connectivity and the generalization of high and very high speed Internet access one of the priorities of its...
Operators are increasingly interested in monetizing their telecom tower assets. MTN, Vodacom, Telkom and Airtel Africa have already explored this option. The Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo Group announced on Monday September 26 that it plans to sell 20,000 of its telecommunications towers in several of its markets including Algeria and Tunisia. To carry out this operation, the...
Ooredoo Algeria ranks third on the national telecom market in terms of subscriber base, behind Mobilis and Djezzy. The company puts the odds on its side to provide better services to its subscribers and to be able to attract new ones. The telecommunications operator Ooredoo Algeria has strengthened its ongoing partnership with the company PI Works,...
Algeria’s independent telecoms watchdog the Authority for Regulation of Post and Electronic Communications (Autorite de Regulation de la Poste et des Communications Electroniques, ARPCE) has awarded extra 900MHz mobile spectrum to the country’s three cellular network operators. In a brief statement on its website the regulator said that it assigned additional frequencies in the E-GSM band (880MHz-890MHz/925MHz-935MHz)...
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...
