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In April 2007, the France Telecom Group signed an agreement with the Central African state granting it a mobile and internet licence.
Orange Centrafrique, a mobile operator wholly-owned by France Telecom, launched its GSM service in early December 2007, and it also works on the Internet services market. Its mobile technology is exclusively 2G.
The mobile market is developing briskly, with a constantly rising penetration rate (from 12% at end 2008 to 15% at end 2009). Orange was the last of four operators to enter the market . At the end of 2009, with a 34.9% market share, Orange moved ahead of the first operator to set up in the Central African Republic.
Orange’s mobile market counted 189,000 active customers at the end of 2009, almost exclusively prepaid customers since very few people in this country have bank accounts.
Orange Centrafrique is continuing to make investments to shore up its position in terms of coverage, primarily along the Bangui- Berbérati corridor, the country’s main economic hub.
Orange Centrafrique has a network of two agencies (Bangui and Berbérati) and two franchises (in Bangui), plus 17 distributors and a team of around one hundred traveling salespeople in Bangui who exclusively sell Orange handsets and top-ups
The mobile market is developing briskly, with a constantly rising penetration rate (from 12% at end 2008 to 15% at end 2009). Orange was the last of four operators to enter the market . At the end of 2009, with a 34.9% market share, Orange moved ahead of the first operator to set up in the Central African Republic.
Orange’s mobile market counted 189,000 active customers at the end of 2009, almost exclusively prepaid customers since very few people in this country have bank accounts.
Orange Centrafrique is continuing to make investments to shore up its position in terms of coverage, primarily along the Bangui- Berbérati corridor, the country’s main economic hub.
Orange Centrafrique has a network of two agencies (Bangui and Berbérati) and two franchises (in Bangui), plus 17 distributors and a team of around one hundred traveling salespeople in Bangui who exclusively sell Orange handsets and top-ups
last update December 23, 2010
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