Increasing Broadband Internet Penetration
In the OIC Member Countries
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Table 23: OIC Member Countries: Mobile broadband coverage and download speed (4G)
(2016)
Country Operator Population Coverage (%) Average download
speed (Mbps) Jordan Zain 68 8
Kazakhstan Altel 83 8
Kuwait Zain 89 8
Viva 85 7
Ooredoo 82 6
Malaysia Maxis 69 12
DiGi 54 12
Celcom 51 11
U Mobile 43 14
Morocco IAM 67 15
INWI 62 14
Meditel 40 18
Oman Omantel 58 20
Pakistan Warid 70 4
Zang 68 7
Qatar Ooredoo 81 10
Saudi Arabia Zain 71 3
STC 69 5
Mobily 52 4
UAE Etisalat 80 27
du 75 17
Sources: Open Signal; Telecom Advisory Services analysisAs indicated in table 23, 4G deployment appears to be fairly advanced among the countries
with available data. On the other hand, as will be reported in the Cote d’Ivoire case study in
section V.1, 4G coverage in Sub-Saharan OIC Member Countries is still at its infancy.
Moving now to the type of technology, table 24 presents a breakdown of fixed broadband lines
in terms of ADSL, fiber optics lines (provisioned by a telecommunications carrier), cable
modem accesses (supplied by a cable TV operator), and other technology platforms (primarily
fixed wireless through WiMax platforms).
Table 24: OIC Member Countries: Breakdown of fixed broadband lines
Lines per 100
population Total Lines Share ADSL(% )
Share Cable
modem ( %)
Share Fiber
Optics (%)
Other Fixed
(*)(%) Lebanon 22.76 1,150,205 57.96 0.00 0.00 42.04
Azerbaijan 19.76 1,899,456 85.69 1.06 6.86 6.40
Bahrain 18.61 253,041 58.81 0.00 0.58 40.61
Kazakhstan 13.05 2,188,543 51.29 2.23 39.98 6.50
UAE 12.81 1,226,830 11.21 0.02 88.34 0.43
Turkey 12.39 9,504,594 76.68 5.48 16.44 1.40
Saudi Arabia 12.01 3,590,719 49.99 0.00 32.39 17.62
Iran (I.R.) 10.86 8,633,861 83.90 0.00 0.00 16.10
Qatar 10.06 236,465 25.82 0.00 73.86 0.32
Suriname 9.48 51,994 0.00 0.00 92.14 7.86
Malaysia 8.95 2,743,280 49.61 2.42 31.31 16.66
Brunei
Darussalam 7.99 34,240 0.00 0.00 37.18 62.82
Albania 7.6 242,870 63.99 23.60 6.20 6.21
Guyana 6.65 53,687 99.94 0.00 0.01 0.05