Increasing Broadband Internet Penetration
In the OIC Member Countries
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Table 7: Global presence of MNC broadband providers
Africa Asia Europe L. America
Orange Guinea-Bissau, Botswana, Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Cote
d’Ivoire, Egypt, Guinea, Equatorial
Guinea, Kenya, Mauritius, Senegal,
Mali, Niger, Tunisia, Madagascar
Jordan, Iraq France
MTN Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Cote
d’Ivoire, Sudan, Nigeria, Rwanda,
Zambia, South Sudan, Botswana,
Swaziland, Benin, Congo, Liberia,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
Syria, Iran, Yemen,
Afghanistan, Cyprus
Telefonica
Spain, UK,
Germany Argentina, Chile,
Uruguay, Peru,
Colombia,
Venezuela, Mexico,
Brazil, Ecuador,
Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Nicaragua
Etisalat Morocco, Mauritania, Burkina Faso,
Gabon, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Nigeria,
Niger, Benin, Central African
Republic, Mali
Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka, UAE, Saudi
Arabia
Vodafone Egypt Qatar, Turkey Albania, United
Kingdom, Spain,
Italy, Germany
Airtel Burkina Faso, Chad, Gabon, Niger,
Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda Bangladesh
Zain Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Sudan, South
Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon,
Bahrain, Morocco,
Source: Compiled by Telecom Advisory Services
III.2. Global trends regarding broadband development
Global Broadband AdoptionForty-four percent of the world’s population already accesses the Internet with regularity.
Considering that in the year 2000, Internet penetration reached only 7% of the population, the
diffusion of the Internet represents a revolution in terms of changes in modes of
communication and access to information. The rate of growth in Internet adoption does not
indicate a slow-down in the near future (see figure 12).