Senegal’s national telecoms regulator, L’Autorite de Regulation des Telecoms et des Postes (ARTP), has published its report on the country’s telecoms market for Q3 2014, showing that overall take-up levels for fixed and mobile services declined marginally in the third quarter. In the mobile sector, ARTP reported a total of 14.352 million subscribers at 30 September, down 0.3% quarter-on-quarter from 14.356 million. Orange Senegal dominates the wireless market with 55.07% of the market, or 7.904 million connections, ahead of Tigo’s 24.19% (3.472 million) and Expresso Telecom with 20.29% (2.912 million).
In the fixed telephony segment, ARTP reported a total of 317,653 subscribers, down from 330,858 at end-June, with total call traffic volumes slumping to an average 23.94 million minutes per month, from 25.41 million in the second quarter. The regulator also noted that Senegal was home to a total of 6.675 million (fixed and mobile) subscribers at the start of October, of which around 98% are mobile internet connections.