ALGIERS, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Algeria had more than 34.6 million
fixed and mobile Internet subscribers in 2017, up by 21 percent
from 2016, the official APS news agency reported on Tuesday.
Of the total, 31.46 million are mobile Internet users, APS
quoted Mohamed Ahmed Nacer, chief the Regulatory Authority of the
Post and Telecommunications, as saying.
Nacer said that 90.85 percent of the Internet expenditure are on
mobile networks.
The turnover of fixed and mobile operators in 2017 amounted to
429.4 billion dinars (3.75 billion U.S. dollars), he said.
Algeria, with a population of about 40 million, is building a
national high-speed fiber network to provide better Internet
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