President and Director General of the Algeria Telecommunications Complex, Khaled Zarrat, revealed… Complex strategy For the period 2024-2028, announcing its goals of improving the quality and coverage of networks across the country and increasing the capabilities of national and international transport networks.
Mr. Zarat explained in an interview with Waj: We have focused our efforts on voice and data, but the time has come to diversify our activities. The goal of this is to improve the quality and coverage of networks across the country and increase the capabilities of networks. National Transport international and enhancing their security, adding that the complex seeks to achieve solid facilities for data centers in order to house solutions for digital industry services such as “Cloud“And IPTV, video on demand, the Internet of Things, and in general what is known as everything as a service (XaaS)… which responds to the directives of the national strategy for digitization that will attract more investments.
He also intends to explore new investment opportunities in the African market, the same official added, stressing that thanks to youth and a growing demand in the field of information and communication technologies, the African market represents a strategic opportunity for the Algeria Telecom Complex.
On the other hand, Mr. Zarat pointed out that the complex supports innovation and entrepreneurship among young Algerian talents through cooperation with the university, and also seeks to establish new incubators after the ones that were recently launched at the Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology.
He continued, saying that the complex is studying the possibility of investing in emerging institutions in order to support their development and growth, especially through the basic law for self-entrepreneurship that was enacted at the beginning of 2024.
In this regard, Mr. Zarrat stressed that the Algeria Telecom Complex is committed to supporting investment and production in Algeria, which contributed to reducing import costs.
He added that through our investments in recent years, we are contributing to encouraging the development of local content of hosted data, while achieving exports in this field.
In the same context, he also highlighted the results achieved by the complex since its establishment 5 years ago, praising the short-term economic results resulting from the complex’s interim achievements and the operation of two undersea cable systems with great capabilities linking Africa to Europe.
He went on to say that these two systems have allowed the capacity of international transmission lines to increase from 1,200 gigabytes per second to more than 10,000 gigabytes per second, with an increase in the daily peak of bandwidth consumption, from 780 gigabytes per second to 3,360 gigabytes per second, between Years 2019 and 2023 respectively.
This capacity allowed the customer to consume an average individual, moving from 500 mega-octa in the year 2018 to 7 giga-octa of monthly consumption in the year 2023, thanks to the widespread spread of fiber optics and the modernization of the fourth generation mobile network.
The President and Director General of the complex also announced the introduction of a high-speed internet offer by the end of 2024, which may reach 1 gigabyte per second for private individuals.
(compared to 2 megabytes per second in 2019), and a very significant flow rate suitable for professionals thanks to the continuous reduction in applied prices and thus supporting the general policy of digitization.
He added that the Internet and mobile phone activity shares this segment with two customers at a rate of 43%, with an increase of about 28% for its customers in C3/C4, on December 31, 2023 compared to the year 2019.
The same official continued, saying that following the launch of the national satellite Com-Sat-1, our activity via the satellite witnessed a great demand from professionals, and we are now in the process of fully exploiting all of our capabilities that this satellite has made available to us.
Finally, Mr. Zarat concluded by confirming that electronic payment (bill payment and recharge) has witnessed a development with 31 million transactions recorded at the end of the year 2023, compared to only 3 million transactions in the year 2019.
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