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Land lines
Gabon Télécom has the monopoly over supply of basic landline telecommunication services.
In February 2007, Morocco Télécom (a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal) became a majority shareholder in Gabon Télécom with a 51% stake. The extension of coverage of broadband services features among the priorities, which include the network in Libreville which is opening up to fibre optics.
Mobile telephony
The domestic market represents 1.3 million subscribers, divided among three companies:
LIBERTIS
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Gabon Télécom, today it holds 34% of the mobile market, representing 440,000 subscribers.
Libertis has a dynamic policy in terms of the coverage of the urban centres inside the country and serves just over thirty locations in nine provinces of the country.
This company invested at the end of 2002 to improve its capacities and to be able to develop the services and data it supplies. It is the operator in Gabon which offers the widest range of “roaming” services.
ZAIN
Zain Gabon (formerly Celtel), originally an 80% subsidiary of MSI Cellular Investments (Netherlands), began commercialisation in June 2000. In April 2005, MTC took over the parent company of Celtel Gabon, which became Zain in August 2008.
The Zain Gabon network covers 17 locations in seven provinces. Since 2006, the operator covers almost 85% of the country with the deployment of its third backbone underway.
This operator today has approximately 750,000 subscribers (estimated at the end of December 2008) or a 58% market share.
MOOV
Moov (formerly Telecel) launched its commercialisation in September 2000. It has 100,000 subscribers today, which is 8% of the market. The Egyptian corporation Orascom disposed of almost all of the shares of Moov Gabon to Atlantic Télécom, a company from Côte d’Ivoire, in 2002.
Moov was the first operator to offer “post paid” subscription in Gabon. The proportion of “post payment” customers remains very small (1%) but generates 25% of the turnover.
Moov is positioned as a challenger on the Gabonese mobile telephone market and has a “business” orientation.
A fourth operator arrives on the market...
BINTEL
A Saudi operator based in Bahrain and which already operates mobile telephone networks in the Central African Republic, launched its activities in Gabon during the third quarter of 2009. This operator aims at 6 to 8% of the market for its first year of business and plans to attain 30% in 10 years.
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