Broadband Services in Zimbabwe 4th Southern Africa Broadband, Next Generation Networks & and New Technologies Workshop 26 November 2014
PRESENTATION OUTLINE Zimbabwe Demographics Service Portfolio Broadband Market Size Broadband Market overview Evolution from Narrowband to Broadband Services TelOne Service Portfolio
ZIMBABWE DEMOGRAPHICS POPULATION 12.9M (2012 CENSUS) CAPITAL CITY HARARE POPULATION +/- 2M AGE STRUCTURE: 15 – 54 Yrs: 52% (IMMEDIATE POTENTIAL) 0 – 14 Yrs: 41% (FUTURE POTENTIAL) LITERACY RATE: 90.7% PERCENTAGE INTERNET USERS: 46%
TELONE (Pvt) Ltd Incumbent Operator Private Limited Company 100% owned by govt. Established in 2001 as one of the 3 successor companies of ZPTC licensed to provide: Fixed telephone services (voice) Data services Internet services Mobile services (Recent licence issue)
ZIMBABWEAN BROADBAND MARKET SIZE There is a significant number of players on the Zimbabwean market offering broadband services: OPERATOR TYPE NUMBER / SIZE DELIVERY METHOD Fixed Network 1 Fibre, DSL, CDMA Mobile Cellular 3 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G / LTE Internet Access Providers (IAPs) 12 CDMA, WiMax, Fibre Internet Service providers (ISPs) 28 WiMax, Fibre, Copper
ZIMBABWEAN BROADBAND MARKET OVERVIEW
Backbone Network
MPLS NETWORK
Broadband Technologies ADSL SHDSL LEASED LINE OVER FIBRE FTTx, FTTb Wi-Fi VSAT
Service Portfolio Voice Services Data Services Internet Services Mobile Service POTS IP Centrex Video phone VoIP Number portability Leased Line VSAT L2 & L3 VPN Frame Relay Broadband Internet Service High capacity leased lines
TELONE CONNECTIVITY TO THE SUBMARINE CABLES
Initiatives NGN Value Added Services IPv6 Google Caching Data Centre Regional Internet Exchange DPI Redundancy
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