All posts by Christoph Stork

04 Jan 2019

Maroc Telecom’s international mobile service revenues continue to grow
by Maroc Telecom

Maroc Telecom owns or manages mobile operators in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Togo, and the Central African Republic but only reports for these countries as a group in Moroccan Dirham (MAD). Mobile revenues dipped slightly for some quarters but the general trend across its operations is stable or increasing. Since the use of OTT apps has increased consistently in the past three years, the revenue fluctuations are likely to be operational in nature or due to currency fluctuations and not linked to OTT apps.

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04 Jan 2019

MTN Africa’s volatile revenues
by MTN

Generally, MTN has experienced revenue growth for its African operations, except for Guinea and Liberia, over the past five years. MTN Guinea and MTN Liberia experienced a significant downward trend in revenues, which can be partly attributed to the severe economic downturn as a result of the Ebola crisis. Figure 1 also illustrates that multiple factors have an impact on revenues, including   own product design and product design of competitors; quality of service of own network and that of competitors; and the general regulatory and economic conditions. The interaction of these factors can lead to significant revenue volatility,like that […]

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04 Jan 2019

Airtel Africa’s road to profitability
by Airtel

Airtel Africa’s operation turned profitable the first time in 2018. The strong data revenue growth is the result of increased mobile broadband coverage. Airtel’s broadband RANs nearly doubled between June 2017 and September 2018 (Figure 4). Airtel Africa’s strong results are remarkable as voice revenue, minutes per subscriber and overall minutes on its network all increased. Data revenues, per subscriber and overall MBs on its network increased even faster (Figures 1-3). Airtel Africa demonstrates that minutes sold to customers depends more on network infrastructure and pricing in relation to competitors than other factors. It also demonstrates that expanding network coverage […]

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