By Editor on March 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
According to the figures reported by the Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA), the past year has witnessed many changes in terms of the market share held by the Public Telecommunications Operators (PTOs). The report reveals that in March 2010 6 per cent of the market share was controlled by BTC beMOBILE, 37 per cent by Orange Botswana, and 57 per cent was held by Mascom Wireless.
However, by the end of March 2011, the market structure was different. BTC beMOBILE accounted for 14 per cent of the market, while Orange Botswana and Mascom Wireless held 34 percent and 52 percent respectively.
According to the report, as at the end of December 2010, total revenue for the two mobile operators amounted to around US$ 304 million compared to US$ 277 million recorded in December 2009. Total assets remained the same at around US$ 262.6 million as at end of December 2010. Total net profit increased from around US$ 90 million as recorded in December 2009 to US$ 94 million as at December 2010, representing a marginal increase of around 5 percent between the two periods.
Mobile telephony networks of the Public Telecommunications Operators (PTOs) namely BTC, beMOBILE, Orange Botswana and Mascom Wireless Botswana are estimated to cover at least 95 percent of the Botswana population.
The BTA Report also highlights that the compound annual growth rate of the number of subscriptions combined for both postpaid and prepaid mobile telephony, over a ten year period from March 2002 to March 2011 is 23.7 percent.
Filed under Africa, Mobile ·
Tagged with Africa, Botswana, Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA), BTC beMOBILE, Market Share, Mascom Wireless, Mobile Penetration, Mobile Subscriptions, Orange Botswana, postpaid, Prepaid, Public Telecommunications Operators (PTOs)
By Editor on May 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Stake of France Telecom in Orange Botswana has been increased by the company to 69%. The deal has also seen a consortium of local investors sell around a 20% stake in the cellco to the French telecoms group.
According to Satar Dada, one of the investors in Mosokelatsebeng Cellular, a consortium of Batswana investors, the company offloaded 20% of the company’s share and now it is left with 26% in Orange and the transaction was effected in December 2009, although he did not disclose the value of the deal.
The aim of the deal is also at pre-empting a takeover offer from an unnamed South African mobile operator seeking to enter the market in Botswana. Orange Botswana launched mobile services as Vista Cellular in June 1998 and rebranded under the Orange banner in March 2003.
By Editor on February 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Alvarion Ltd., the world’s leading provider of WiMAX(TM) and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it was chosen by Orange Botswana for a turnkey WiMAX(TM) deployment, using Alvarion’s WiMAX Forum Certified(TM) 4Motion end-to-end solution. The commercial network built at the 2.5 GHz frequency band enables Orange Botswana to provide advanced data services to businesses and homes in Gaborone and Francistown, Botswana’s two largest cities with a total population of over 330,000. (more…)
