Telecommunications in Burkina Faso

1998

This pushed rates down even as density and coverage area increased. Use of mobile phones grew quickly in the 2000s, growing from 2,700 subscribers in 1998, to 1.0 million in 2006, to 10.0 million in 2012.

2000

This pushed rates down even as density and coverage area increased. Use of mobile phones grew quickly in the 2000s, growing from 2,700 subscribers in 1998, to 1.0 million in 2006, to 10.0 million in 2012.

2006

Use of mobile phones has skyrocketed from 1.0 million lines in 2006 to 10 million in 2012.

This pushed rates down even as density and coverage area increased. Use of mobile phones grew quickly in the 2000s, growing from 2,700 subscribers in 1998, to 1.0 million in 2006, to 10.0 million in 2012.

2012

There were just 141,400 fixed line phones in use in 2012, in a country with a population of 17.4 million.

Use of mobile phones has skyrocketed from 1.0 million lines in 2006 to 10 million in 2012.

Internet use is also low, with only 3.7 users per 100 inhabitants in 2012, just over 643,000 users total.

This pushed rates down even as density and coverage area increased. Use of mobile phones grew quickly in the 2000s, growing from 2,700 subscribers in 1998, to 1.0 million in 2006, to 10.0 million in 2012.

For example, in May 2012 the SCC issued a warning to a Web site on which a user had allegedly insulted President Compaore in an Internet forum. The constitution and law provide for freedom of speech and of the press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice.

2013

The Internet penetration rate in Africa as a whole was 16 users per 100 inhabitants in 2013. ==Regulation and control== The constitution and law provide for freedom of speech and of the press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice. All media are under the administrative and technical supervision of the Ministry of Communications, which is responsible for developing and implementing government policy on information and communication.

2020

and to 21.4 million in 2020. ARPU remained low, however, as mobile subscribers adopted behaviours such as "flashing" to minimize their costs and Burkina Faso's ancient oral tradition and talking drum culture harmonized with the introduction of mobile phone technologies.

Following an ambitious network modernization plan, 9 months later the network rebranded as Orange Burkina Faso boasting a subscriber base of 6.3M. According to the website of the Communication Regulator of Burkina Faso, at the end of 2020 the Mobile Telecommunications Market (21.4M subscriptions) was shared as follows: Orange BF S.A.




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