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STATISTICS AND TARIFF INFORMATION IN TELECOM, MEDIA AND POSTAL

SERVICE AS OF THE FIRST QUARTER 2017

Prepared by:

Economic Regulation Unit

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS ................................................................................................................................. 5

2. SUMMARY.................................................................................................................................................................. 5

3. MOBILE AND FIXED TELEPHONE SUBSCRIPTIONS .......................................................................... 6

4. MARKET SHARE AND COVERAGE .............................................................................................................. 8

5. VOICE AND SMS TARIFF STRUCTURE ................................................................................................... 10

6. TRAFFIC STATISTICS ......................................................................................................................................... 12

6.1 Voice total outgoing and incoming mobile calls (In Minutes) ................................................................. 12

6.2 Voice total outgoing and incoming roaming traffic (In Minutes) ........................................................... 12

7. STATUS OF INTERNET SERVICE PROVISION ...................................................................................... 13

7.1. Licensed Operators ......................................................................................................................................... 13

7.2. Internet Subscribers ........................................................................................................................................ 14

7.3. International Internet Bandwidth ................................................................................................................ 15

7.4. Internet Tariff ................................................................................................................................................... 16

7.4.1 Mobile Internet Tariff ........................................................................................................................................ 16

8. EMPLOYMENT IN TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR ...................................................................... 21

9. MEDIA ......................................................................................................................................................................... 22

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1.Number of mobile and fixed telephone service subscriptions per operator as of March 2017 ........ 6

Table 2.International average roaming subscribers’ as of March 2017 ........................................................ 7

Table 3: Mobile money transfer services per operator.................................................................................. 9

Table 4.Mobile telephone network coverage per type of technology and per operator as of March 2017 ... 9

Table 5.Mobile telephone voice tariff (in Rwf) per minute per operator as of March 2017. ...................... 10

Table 6: Fixed telephone service tariff structure......................................................................................... 10

Table7 : SMS tariff structure ...................................................................................................................... 11

Table 8. Outgoing and Incoming traffic as of 31stMarch 2017 per operator.............................................. 12

Table 9.Outgoing and Incoming Roaming traffic as of the 31st March 2017 per operator ......................... 13

Table 10. Licensed internet service providers as of March 2017................................................................ 13

Table 12: Internet subscribers per category per operator as of March 2017 ............................................... 14

Table 13: International internet bandwidth (Mbps) per operator as of 31st March 2017 ............................ 15

Table 14. Fixed Internet tariffs per operator as of 31st March 2017 (In Rwf VAT inclusive) ................... 17

Table 15: KT Telecom Ltd Bandwidth tariff (in Rwf VAT inclusive) ....................................................... 19

Table 16: KTRN Telecom Ltd Device Tariffs (in Rwf VAT inclusive) ..................................................... 19

Table 17: 4G LTE retail tariffs(in Rwf VAT inclusive) as of the first quarter 2017 .................................. 20

Table 18: Trend in Telecom Revenues in 2017 .......................................................................................... 21

Table 19: Trend in Telecom investment in 2017 ........................................................................................ 21

Table20: Number of staffs employed in Telecommunication sectors as of March 2017............................ 21

Table 21: Licensed media operators as of March 2017 ............................................................................ 22

Table 22: Pay TV subscribers as of March 2017 ........................................................................................ 23

Table 23: Tariff Structure in Frw for pay TV operators as of March 2017 ................................................ 23

Table 24: Licensed postal operators as of March 2017........................................................................... 24

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Development of Mobile telephone Subscriptions per annum from 2009-Mar 2017 ........ 6

Figure 2: Development of fixed telephone Subscribers per annum from 2009-Mar 2017 ................ 7

Figure 3: Mobile Telephone subscribers market share per operator as of March 2017 ..................... 8

Figure 4: Fixed telephone service Market share per operator as of March 2017 ................................ 8

Figure 5: Average Mobile Voice Tariff Trend (Frw per minute) per annum from 2009-Mar- 2017

................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Figure 6: Outgoing on net, off net and international voice traffic market share per operator as of

March 2017 ............................................................................................................................................................ 12

Figure 7: Trend in total internet Subscribers from 2009-March 2017 ................................................. 15

Figure 9: Trend in International Internet bandwidth ................................................................................. 16

Figure 10: Standard mobile Internet tariff (Rwf/Mb) as of 31st March 2017 ..................................... 16

Figure 11: Staffs by gender as of March 2017 ............................................................................................ 22

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1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS

The information compiled in this report is from telecom companies, Internet Service Providers,

4G retailers, RURA database, postal operators, Pay TV operators, Media and Newspapers. An

active subscriber is defined as one that has generated revenue within three months of the quarter

under review.

2. SUMMARY

This is a first quarter report for 2017; it covers the period from January to March 2017, and it gives

the annual trends of some indicators. This report includes information on mobile telephone, fixed

telephone, internet, tariffs (voice and data), traffic, revenues, investment and employment in

telecommunication sector, licensed operators in postal and Media.

In the period under review, mobile telephone subscriptions decreased from 8,932,108 recorded in

the fourth quarter 2016 to 8,402,963 recorded in the first quarter 2017, this portrays a 6% decrease.

Mobile telephone penetration rate fell from 79.21% recorded in the fourth quarter of 2016 to 72.88

% that was recorded at the end of the first quarter 2017.

Fixed telephone subscriptions in this quarter decreased by 25% from 13,403 recorded in the fourth

quarter 2016 to 12,810 in this quarter under review.

In the media there are 14 licensed Free to Air Televisions, 4 licensed pay TV operators, 31 radio

stations, 50print media and 80 online operators and in the postal service there are 24 licensed

operators as of December 2016.

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3. MOBILE AND FIXED TELEPHONE SUBSCRIPTIONS

As of March2017, the operators offering mobile telephony services included MTN Rwanda Ltd,

TIGO Rwanda Ltd and AIRTEL Rwanda Ltd, and those offering fixed telephone services were

Liquid Telecom Ltd, Airtel Rwanda Ltd, Tigo Rwanda Ltd and MTN Rwanda Ltd.

Table 1.Number of mobile and fixed telephone service subscriptions per operator as of

March 2017

Operators Name Active Subscribers Mobile

Teledensity

Fixed

Teledensity

General

Teledensity

Mobile Active

subscribers

Fixed

Telephony

72.88 0.11 72.99

MTN Rwanda Ltd 3,555,256 2,293

TIGO Rwanda Ltd 3,250,460 9’515

Airtel Rwanda Ltd 1,597,247 9

Liquid Telecom Ltd N/A 993

Total 8,402,963 12,810

Source: RURA operators’ returns

At the end of the first quarter 2017, the number of fixed telephones subscriptions continues to

record a downward trend over time as lots of people preferred to use mobile telephones. During

this quarter, the total number of fixed network subscriptions was recorded at 12,810 subscriptions

down from the last quarter’s 13,403 subscriptions.

Figure 1: Development of Mobile telephone Subscriptions per annum from 2009-Mar 2017


2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Mar-17

Subscriptions 2,429,25 3,548,76 4,446,19 5,690,75 6,689,25 7,747,01 8,759,61 8,932,10 8,402,963

% change 46 25 28 18 16 13 2 -6

(1,000,000) -

1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000 9,000,000

10,000,000

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In the first quarter of 2017, mobile telephone active subscribers decreased by 6% from 8,932,108

mobile subscribers recorded in 2016 to 8,402,963 recorded in the first quarter of 2017.

Figure 2: Development of fixed telephone Subscribers per annum from 2009-Mar 2017


Due to the diffusion of mobile telephones which made people to shift from using fixed phones to

mobile telephones, during the first quarter of 2017 the fixed telephones decreased by 22.6%. The

number of subscribers dropped from 13,143 connections in the year 2016 to 12,810 connections

recorded at the end of March 2017.

Table 2.International average roaming subscribers’ as of March 2017

Destination MTN Rwanda Ltd Tigo Rwanda Ltd Airtel Rwanda ltd Total

Incoming 189,416 11,500 143,703 344,619

Outgoing 182,348 4,123 191,721 378,192


2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Mar-17

Subscrptions 33,451 39,664 38,801 44,363 45,338 49,612 16,983 13,143 12,810

% change 18.6 -2.2 14.3 2.2 9.4 -65.8 -22.6 -2.5

(10,000)

-

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

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4. MARKET SHARE AND COVERAGE

Figure 3: Mobile Telephone subscribers market share per operator as of March 2017

Source: RURA operators’ return

In the first quarter of 2017, MTN Rwanda Ltd continued to show the biggest market share of 42%

followed by Tigo Rwanda Ltd with 39% and Airtel Rwanda Ltd that has the market share of 19%

in mobile telephone subscriptions.

Figure 4: Fixed telephone service Market share per operator as of March 2017


MTN Rwanda Ltd

42%

Tigo Rwanda Ltd

39%

Airtel Rwanda Ltd

19%

MTN Rwanda Ltd 18%

TIGO Rwanda Ltd 74%

Airtel Rwanda

Ltd0%

Liquid Telecom Ltd8%

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As of the first quarter 2017, Tigo Rwanda Ltd has the largest market share of 74%, followed by

MTN Rwanda Ltd with 18%, Liquid Telecom has 8% and Airtel has the insignificant market share.

5. MOBILE MONEY SUBSCRIPTIONS

Table 3: Mobile money transfer services per operator

Operator Agents Subscriptions Deposits Withdrawals

MTN Rwanda Ltd 13,979 4,171,038 72,556,712,364 65,147,608,531

Airtel Rwanda Ltd 9,568 1,449,793 1,702,297,824 1,288,946,276

Tigo Rwanda Ltd 19,358 2,883,353 34,474,512,630 29,195,558,983

Total 42,905 8,504,184 108,733,522,818 95,632,113,790

In this quarter, the number of mobile money subscriptions recorded was 8,504,184 subscriptions

while the number of mobile money agents was 42,905. The deposited money on mobile phones

was 108,733,522,818Frw while 95,632,113,790Frw were withdrawn within the first quarter of

2017.

Table 4.Mobile telephone network coverage per type of technology and per operator as of

March 2017

Operator 2G 2.5G 3G 3.5G 4G LTE

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

MTN Rwanda Ltd 99.13% 99.13% 76.27% 76.27%

TIGO Rwanda Ltd 90.82% 90.82% 22.54% 22.54%

AIRTEL Rwanda Ltd 52.00% 52.00% 2.00% 2.00%

KTRN Rwanda Networks Ltd 51.4%

POPULATION COVERAGE

MTN Rwanda Ltd 99.92% 99.92% 93.11% 93.11%

TIGO Rwanda Ltd 99.91% 99.91% 58.99% 58.99%

AIRTEL Rwanda Ltd 81% 81% 19% 19%

KTRN Rwanda Networks Ltd 64.3%


Geographically MTN 2G and 2.5G Networks covers 99.13% of the total land area, followed by

TIGO Rwanda Ltd with 90.82% and52% for Airtel Rwanda Ltd. This geographic network gives

the opportunity to 99.92% of the population to access 2G and 2.5G networks of MTN Rwanda

Ltd, 99.91% of TIGO Network and 81% of AIRTEL network Ltd.

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3G and 3.5G mobile technologies were deployed geographically by MTN Rwanda Ltd at the level

of 76.27%, Tigo Rwanda Ltd at 22.54%, and 2% for Airtel Rwanda Ltd as of first quarter of

2017.KT Rwanda Networks Ltd deployed 4G geographically by 51% and this network is accessed

by 64% of the population.

6. VOICE AND SMS TARIFF STRUCTURE

Table 5.Mobile telephone voice tariff (in Rwf) per minute per operator as of March 2017.

Destination MTN Rwanda Ltd

Tigo Rwanda Ltd Airtel Rwanda Ltd Prepaid Postpaid

Onnet Tariff 45 40 30

Offnet tariff 39 40 30

One Area Network 70 70 70

US/Canada/China/India/Belgium[2] 51 35 51

Table 6: Fixed telephone service tariff structure

Fixed Telephone

Tariff

Liquid Rwanda

Ltd

MTN Rwanda

Ltd

Tigo Rwanda Ltd Airtel Rwanda

Ltd

On net 20 45 40 46

Off net 60 39 40 60

EAC 135 70 60 70

Rest of Africa 155 255 255 255


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Figure 5: Average Mobile Voice Tariff Trend (Frw per minute) per annum from 2009-Mar-

2017

Source: RURA, operators’ returns

Table7 : SMS tariff structure

SMS On net Tariff Off net tariff One area Network

MTN Rwanda Ltd 12 26 45

Airtel Rwanda Ltd 11 22 45

Tigo Rwanda Lt d 11 26 45


The on net tariff of sending message via Airtel Rwanda Ltd and Tigo Rwanda Ltd subscribers is

11 Frw while it is 12 Frw for MTN Rwanda Ltd. The off net tariff of MTN Rwanda Ltd and Tigo

Rwanda Ltd is 26 Frw whereas to send a message in East African Countries is 45 Frw.

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Mar-17

Ave

rage

Tar

iff

in R

wf

Onenet Tariff Offnet tariff One Network Tariff

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7. TRAFFIC STATISTICS

6.1 Voice total outgoing and incoming mobile calls (In Minutes)

Table 8. Outgoing and Incoming traffic as of 31stMarch 2017 per operator

Destination MTN Rwanda Ltd Airtel Rwanda Ltd Tigo Rwanda Ltd Total

Outgoing traffic

On net 563,734,332 326,264,420 1,274,957,059 2,164,955,811

Off net 17,966,659 26,908,056 13,068,186 57,942,901

International 10,921,697 3,215,727 1,608,714 15,746,138

Incoming traffic

Off net 28,349,360 3,591,645 12,880,872 44,821,877

International 7,216,549 4,250,732 4,236,903 15,704,184


Figure 6: Outgoing on net, off net and international voice traffic market share per operator

as of March 2017


26%

15%59%

ON NET

MTN Rwanda Ltd

Airtel Rwanda Ltd

Tigo Rwanda Ltd

31%

46%

23%

OFF NET

MTN Rwanda Ltd

Airtel Rwanda Ltd

Tigo Rwanda Ltd

69%

21%

10%

International

MTN Rwanda Ltd

Airtel Rwanda Ltd

Tigo Rwanda Ltd

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6.2 Voice total outgoing and incoming roaming traffic (In Minutes)

Table 9.Outgoing and Incoming Roaming traffic as of the 31st March 2017 per operator

Destination MTN Rwanda Ltd Tigo Rwanda Ltd Airtel Rwanda ltd Total

Incoming 6,734,713 20,638 43,947,435 50,702,786

Outgoing 1,019,493 21,738 23,758,982 24,800,213


During this quarter, 50.7 million minutes of roaming-in voice traffic was recorded whereas 24.8

million minutes was the roaming-out voice traffic.

8. STATUS OF INTERNET SERVICE PROVISION

8.1. Licensed Operators Table 10. Licensed internet service providers as of March 2017

ISPs Licensed From (Year) Status

Internet Service Providers

MTN Rwanda Ltd 2006 Operational

Liquid Telecom Ltd 2014 Operational

TIGO Rwanda Ltd 2008 Operational

New Artel Ltd 2004 Operational

ISPA Ltd 2006 Operational

4G NETWORKS Ltd 2009 Operational

BSC Ltd 2010 Operational

AIRTEL Rwanda Ltd 2011 Operational

AXIOM 2014 Operational

4G LTE Wholesaler

KTRN 2013 Operational

4G LTE Retailers

GMAX 2014 Operational

Intercom Technologies 2014 Not yet Operational

4NetAfrica Ltd 2014 Operational

Piramie Inc 2014 Not yet Operational

Twinning in Corporation 2015 Not yet Operational

Simba Supermarket 2015 Operational

TRUCONNECT ltd 2015 Operational

POPCORN Ltd 2015 Operational

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1.1. Internet Subscribers

The table below illustrates the breakdown of internet subscribers per category and per operator

Table 11: Internet subscribers per category per operator as of March 2017

Suku NSA Ltd 2015 Not yet Operational

Universalinks Group Operational

Operators Fixed internet Mobile

internet

Total internet

subscribers

Narrowband(≤256kbps) Broadband(≥256kbps)

Liquid

Telecom ltd

707 707

MTN

Rwanda ltd

177 8,955 1,962,354 1,971,486

Tigo Rwanda

ltd

1,300,941 1,300,941

Airtel

Rwanda ltd

63 651,599 651,662

New Artel ltd 16 46 106 168

ISPA ltd 43 200 243

4G Networks

ltd

87 87

BSC ltd 1,339 2,671 4,010

Axiom

Networks ltd

89 13 102

Gmax Ltd 195 195

Popconn Ltd 1,726 1,726

Truconnect 102 102

Tnsp's 208 208

4NetAfrica

Ltd

20 20

Universalinks

Group

633 633

Piramie Inc 639 639

Total 236 11,486 3,921,207 3,932,929

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Figure 7: Trend in total internet Subscribers from 2009-March 2017


1.2. International Internet Bandwidth

Table 12: International internet bandwidth (Mbps) per operator as of 31st March 2017

Type MTN Liquid New

Artel

Tigo Airtel ISPA 4G

Network

s Ltd

BSC KT Axi

om

Total

UP Link 3,752 10,000 60 900 1,120 200 50 1,350 2,010 400

20,582 Down Link 3,752 10,000 60 900 1,120 200 50 2,790 2,010 400


0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

4,000,000

4,500,000

5,000,000

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Mar-17

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Figure 8: Trend in International Internet bandwidth


1.3. Internet Tariff

8.4.1 Mobile Internet Tariff

Figure 9: Standard mobile Internet tariff (Rwf/Mb) as of 31st March 2017


2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Mar-17

Bandwidth 4,280 8,108 10,222 11,934 15,352 19,024 20,582

% change 89.4 26.1 16.7 28.6 23.9 8.2

0.0

10.0

20.0

30.0

40.0

50.0

60.0

70.0

80.0

90.0

100.0

-

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

56

51

51

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

MTN Rwanda Ltd

Tigo Rwanda Ltd

Airtel Rwanda Ltd

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8.4.2 Fixed Internet Tariff

Table 13. Fixed Internet tariffs per operator as of 31st March 2017 (In Rwf VAT inclusive)

Liquid

Telecom

Ltd

MTN

Rwanda

Ltd

Tigo

Rwanda

Ltd

ISPA New

Artel

Ltd

BSC Axiom

Networ

ks Ltd

4G

Networks

Ltd

Wir

eles

s

128/64 Kbps

Residential

64,900 66,150 59,000

106,000

128/64 Kbps

Business

64,900

128/128 Kbps 59,000

256/128 Kbps 236,000 118,000

256/256 Kbps 118,000 41,595

384/192 Kbps 354,000 132,300

512/512Kbps 210,000 62,540

512/256Kbps 743,400

1Mbps 1,534,000 264,600 300,000 103,250

1Mbps

dedicated

236,000

2 Mbps

dedicated

413,000

2 Mbps 480,000

3Mbps 720,000

212,400

358,051 531,400

5Mbps

Dedicated

4Mbps 840,000

5Mbps 1,050,000

6Mbps 1,260,000

7Mbps 1,470,000

8Mbps 1,680,000

9Mbps 1,890,000

10Mbps 2,100,000

Fib

er 64 Kbps 50,150

128Kbps 100,300

256Kbps 141,600

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Source: RURA Operators’ returns

512Kbps 177,000 210,000

1Mbps 354,000

2Mbps 590,000 270,000

3Mbps 826,000 630,000

4Mbps 1,062,000

5Mbps 1,298,000

6Mbps 1,534,000

7Mbps 1,770,000

8Mbps 2,006,000

9Mbps 2,242,000

10Mbps 2,478,000

Cop

per

64 Kbps Data

Copper-Kigali

101,511

64 Kbps Data

Copper-Up

country

185,222

128 kbps Data

Copper-Kigali

147,184

128 kbps Data

Copper-Up

country

268,933

256kbps-

DATA(Copper-

Kigali)

213,166

256kbps-

DATA(copper -

Up country)

415,360

512kbps

DATA(Cooper)

296,405

1024kbps

DATA(Cooper)

479,117

2048kbps

DATA(Cooper)

544,079

EVDO 35,000

Fix

ed 1Mbps 534,963 438,480

2 Mbps 900,579

3Mbps 1,134,003

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Table 14: KT Telecom Ltd Bandwidth tariff (in Rwf VAT inclusive)

VOLUME BASED TARIFFS 2nd quarter

2016

3rd quarter

2016

4thquarter

2016

1st quarter

2017

1GB or less(price per 1GB) 3,600

1-3GB(Price per 1GB)



Above 100GB and unlimited(Price per 1GB)

1GB 2,360 2,360 2,360 2,360

5GB 12,000 12,000 17,200 12,000

10GB 23,800 23,800 34,500 23,800

30GB 65,000 65,000 92,300 65,000

50GB 106,400 106,400 145,000 106,400

100GB 210,000 210,800 294,600 210,800

MUP smart 500MB+500MB per day 14,700 14,700 14,700 14,700

MUP 1GB/Day 21,800 21,800

MUP 2GB/Day 57,000 57,000

MUP 4GB/Day 116,000 116,000 116,000 111,600

100GB+UL 227,100

200GB+UL 413,000 413,000

VPN Over LTE (Internet Included)

1 Mbps 107,400 107,400

3 Mbps 231,000 231,000

5 Mbps 330,700 330,700


Table 15: KTRN Telecom Ltd Device Tariffs (in Rwf VAT inclusive)

2nd Quarter

2016

3rd Quarter

2016

4th Quarter

2016

1st Quarter

2017

Huawei CPEs(E6172) 68,000 68,000 72,000 72,000

Huawei CPEs(Outdoor ) 210,000 210,000 210,000 72,000

Franklin Routers R702 40,000 40,000 39,000 50,000

Huawei CPE Antenna - - - 36,600

INGRAMMICRO V7 ZYRO 90,000

Mediacom Phone PAD G552 68,000

Alcatel Dongles l850V 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000

Source: RURA Operators’ returns

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Table 16: 4G LTE retail tariffs(in Rwf VAT inclusive) as of the first quarter 2017

MTN Rwanda

Ltd

Airtel

Rwanda Ltd

Truconnect BSC Piramie G-Max

VOLUME BASED TARIFFS

0.5GB 4000 2,200

1GB 18,600 3,500 +--

2G 8,200

5GB 35,000

( Month)

16,000 13,700 16,500 14,600

10GB 85,000( Month) 30,500 28,500 29,100 36,499 29,000

12GB

20GB 150,000

(Month)

62,000 60,500

30GB 82,000 78,000 80,000 79,000

40GB 118,000

142,000

50GB 280,000

(Month)

133,000 127,000 220,660 130,000

60GB

212,999

70GB 218,000

100 GB 345,000

(Month)

325,000 284,000 255,000

(Limited)

New 100GB

100GB 260,000 210,000 289,900 300,000 275,000

(Un limited)

200GB 687,000 619,000 529,000 600,000 500,000

(Un limited)

MUP

500MB/Day

25,000 17,000

19,000

MUP smart

500MB+500MB

per day

25,000 14,700

MUP 1GB/Day 35,000 21,800 32,500

36,000

MUP 2GB/Day 80,000 57,000 65,000

70,000

MUP 4GB/Day 123,893 116,000 136,500

Smart Business

100GB/Month

197,885 -


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Table 17: Trend in Telecom Revenues in 2017

Category Revenues in Rwf

Total MNOs Revenues 36,963,094,889

Total ISPs , 4G retailers and Liquid Revenues 5,779,948,283

Total 42,743,043,172


Table 18: Trend in Telecom investment in 2017

Category Investment in Rwf

Total MNOs Revenues 10,666,501,108

Total ISPs , 4G retailers and Liquid Revenues 1,289,922,848

Total 11,956,423,955


2. EMPLOYMENT IN TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR

Table19: Number of staffs employed in Telecommunication sectors as of March 2017

Operator Temporary Female Foreign Permanent Outsourced Total staff

MTN Rwanda Ltd 16 81 6 244 0 260

Tigo Rwanda Ltd 2 66 15 167 126 169

Airtel Rwanda Ltd 0 46 13 83 68 83

Liquid Telecom Ltd 17 11 4 59 0 76

BSC Ltd 9 8 0 25 0 34

4G Networks Ltd 5 2 0 4 0 9

ISPA Ltd 0 6 0 17 0 17

New Artel Ltd 0 4 0 41 0 41

GMAX 2 2 0 3 0 5

TRUCONNECT 2 2 0 4 0 6

Axiom Networks Ltd 2 8 2 27 1 29

4NetAfrica Ltd 4 2 0 5 0 9

TNSP 1 2 0 11 3 12

KT Rwanda Networks Ltd 17 35 7 119 3 136

Piramie INC 4 3 1 1 1 5

POPCONN Ltd 5 6 3 11 0 16

Universalinks Group 0 2 0 9 0 9

Total 86 286 51 830 202 916


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The 916 people are employed in Telecommunication sector, 830 are permanent staffs while 86 are

temporary staffs and 31 % of these staff are female and 69% are male as it is shown in the following

table:

Figure 10: Staffs by gender as of March 2017

3. MEDIA

With the new mandate of RURA to regulate media industry, and following the enactment of the

media law of 2013, RURA in addition to TVs and radios, licensed Internet and Print Media organs.

The table below shows a list of licensed TV stations, FM Radio Broadcasters, newspapers and

online media registered to operate in Rwanda, by the end of the fiscal year under review.

Table 20: Licensed media operators as of March 2017

Category Number of Licensed Operators

Pay Tv 4

FM broadcasters 31

Free To Air (FTA) 14

Online Media 80

Print Media 50

Source: RURA database

According to the table above there are 14, Free to Air Licensed Televisions and 4 Pay Tv

Operators, 31 radios, 50 Newspapers and 80 online media.

Female

31%

Male

69%

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Table 21: Pay TV subscribers as of March 2017

Azam Media

Ltd

Star Africa Media Ltd Tele 10 Ltd Total

Active 1,884 41,649 12,896 56,429

Registered 4,371 207,187 19,568 231,126


Table 22: Tariff Structure in Frw for pay TV operators as of March 2017

Star Africa Media Ltd

Nova 2,500 21

Basic 4,500 37

Classic 9,000 56

Unique 18,000 73

Sport Play 2,500 2

Sport Plus 4,500 4

Smart 9000 90

Super 18000 190

New Chinese 15000 124

India 9000 9

Sport Plus 4,500 4

Azam Media Ltd

English Bouquet 6,500 80

French Bouquet 9,000 60

India Bouquet 6,000 22

Add On 2,000 12

Full Bouquet 15,000 150

Tele 10

Installations fees N/A

Initial Access Fees (Canal) N/A

Initial Access Fees (DSTV) N/A

Canal 1 N/A

Canal 2 N/A

DSTV 61,300


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4. POSTAL SERVICES

Table 23: Licensed postal operators as of March 2017

1 Panorama Ltd International Courier License

2 Dove Forwarding and Supply Company Ltd Regional courier License

3 Shaft Ltd Regional courier License

4 DHL Express International Courier License

5 Pan Africa Express Transport Ltd (Licensee of FedEX) International Courier License

6 Stella Express Ltd Domestic courier License

7 Skynet Worldwide Express Ltd International Courier License

8 Sotra Tour & Travel Agency Ltd Domestic courier License

9 I&T Investment & Supply Company Ltd Intra-city courier License

10 National Post Office Public Postal operator License

11 Sofast Ltd Domestic courier License

12 Horizontal Ltd Domestic courier License

13 Kigali Coach Tours & Travel Ltd Domestic courier License

14 Ukine Ltd Regional Courier License

15 Eagle Net Ltd International Courier License

16 Alpha Express Company Ltd Domestic courier License

17 Excel Travel & Tours Agency Ltd Domestic courier License

18 ISCO Intersec Security International Courier License

19 Kigali Safari Express Ltd Domestic courier License

20 Modern Coast Express Uganda Ltd Regional Courier License

21 Omega Ltd Domestic courier License

22 Virunga Courier Express Ltd Domestic courier License

23 Matunda Express Ltd Domestic courier License

24 Common Rock Ltd Domestic courier License

Source: RURA operators’ returns’

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