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Global UMTS Network Rollout Status

Networks in Service	105
Pre-commercial	4
Planned/In Deployment	59
License Awarded	8
Trial	20
Potential License	90
License Revoked/Sold	11

African UMTS Network Rollout Status

Country	Operator	Start Date	Expected Launch Date
Networks in Service
Mauritius	Emtel	Nov 2004
South Africa	MTN	Jun 2005
South Africa	Vodacom	Dec 2004
Networks Planned/In Deployment
Libya	El Madar Tel. Company
Libya	Libyana
Mauritius	Cellplus Mobile Communications
Seychelles	Telecom Seychelles (Airtel)
South Africa	Cell C		Q2 2006
Sudan	Bashair Telecom		Q2 2006
Sudan	Mobitel Sudan		Q4 2006
Tanzania	Vodacom		Q3 2006
Networks in Trial
Algeria	Algérie Télécom
Libya	El Mador Telephone
Potential License
Egypt			Q4 2007
Egypt	ECMS		Q4 2007
Egypt	Vodafone Egypt		Q4 2007
Morroco			Q4 2007
Morroco			Q4 2007

Global HSDPA Deployment Status

Networks in Service	30
Networks in Deployment	38
Networks Planned	22
Networks in Trial	9

African HSDPA Deployment Status

Country	Operator	Start Date	Expected Launch Date
Networks in Deployment
South Africa	MTN	Mar 2006
South Africa	Vodacom	Apr 2006
Networks Planned
Tanzania	Vodacom		Dec 2006

Networks in Service: Operator has commercially launched its network to both consumer and enterprise market, with handsets available in retail outlets.
Pre-commercial: Operator has launched limited non-commercial trials, including those with "friendly" users. This includes the recent launch of 3G data cards targeted at the enterprise market by some European operators.
Planned/In deployment: Licensee is in planning stages of deploying network or is actually building the network.
Potential License: Small level of speculation; government policy or privatization process indicates that licensing opportunity may become available.
Trial: Operator conducting a network trial. This is to be used when operator has no specific license, but is conducting some sort of network trial. In most cases this is likely to be 3G.
License Awarded: License has been awarded, but licensee currently shows no inclination to deploy a network or has announced no roll-out plans. Examples of this include some UMTS operators in Europe.
License Revoked/Sold: Licensee/operator involuntarily/voluntarily hands back license.

Note: The above statistics do not include UMTS-TDD deployments, where the wireless operators usually only provide data services for access to the Internet or a private network. These operators generally don't have a HLR and may not have been allocated a MCC, MNC and a MSISDN number range.

Information Sources

"Global UMTS Network Status," 3G Americas, 10 May 2006, http://www.3gamericas.org/PDFs/umts_worldwide.pdf.
"HSDPA Fact Sheet and Deployment List," 3G Americas, 2 June 2006, http://www.3gamericas.org/pdfs/hsdpafactsheet.pdf.

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