Algeria: la copertura

Cosa vogliono dire i numeri di Algeria

Contano due numeri e solo uno è quello che citano tutti. La velocità tipica, 27 Mbps, dice com'è un buon momento.

Il decimo percentile, 6 Mbps, è quello che vale la pena leggere. È la velocità nel decimo peggiore della giornata, quando la cella sopra la stazione è piena e tutti intorno a te ci sono dentro. Un paese con mediana alta e pavimento basso funziona benissimo, fino al momento in cui ti serve davvero.

Se il viaggio dipende da videochiamate o hotspot, pianifica sul dato delle ore di punta e non su quello tipico.

Cosa succede in Algeria quando la rete è congestionata

La congestione non è un guasto, è un martedì sera. La domanda è cosa può farci la tua eSIM, e per quasi tutte le eSIM da viaggio la risposta è niente: un accordo all'ingrosso per paese, una rete, e nessuna via d'uscita se non comprare una seconda eSIM da qualcun altro mentre sei in mezzo alla strada.

Qui il traffico Orbislo passa da Djezzy e Ooredoo. Quando la rete su cui sei peggiora ti spostiamo su un'altra, a metà viaggio, senza che tu lo chieda, e te lo diciamo dopo invece di interromperti sul momento.

Algeria: operatori mobili

• Mobilis: Mobilis, run by Algérie Télécom Mobile, had 23.48 million subscribers at the end of September 2025, a 41.97 percent share of Algeria's 55.94 million mobile subscriptions, according to the regulator ARPCE.
• Djezzy: Djezzy, run by Optimum Télécom Algérie, had 17.76 million subscribers at the end of September 2025, a 31.75 percent share of the mobile market.
• Djezzy: On 5 August 2022 VEON completed the sale of its entire 45.57 percent stake in Omnium Telecom Algérie, the owner of Djezzy, to the Algerian National Investment Fund, receiving about US$682 million.
• Ooredoo: Ooredoo, run by Wataniya Télécom Algérie, had 14.70 million subscribers at the end of September 2025, a 26.29 percent share, and the largest postpaid base of the three with 870,418 lines.

Algeria: il 5G

• ARPCE awarded 5G licences to the three mobile operators on 3 July 2025, with Mobilis ranked first in the tender, Ooredoo second and Djezzy third.
• The three 5G licences cost a combined 63.9 billion dinars, about US$492 million, and were published in the Official Journal after an executive decree before the ministry announced the start of 5G deployment in early December 2025.
• 5G rollout began in eight provinces designated as pilot areas, and under the national plan Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo must reach full nationwide coverage within six years.
• In March 2026 Ooredoo said it had extended 5G to every wilaya, the first Algerian operator to do so, and that all of its 4G USIM cards work on 5G without a SIM change.

Algeria: note sulla rete

• Older networks still matter: at the end of September 2025, 4.12 percent of Algeria's mobile subscribers were on GSM and 6.32 percent on 3G, against 89.56 percent on 4G. Prepaid accounts for 95.75 percent of subscriptions.
• Djezzy has the most 4G-heavy base, with 93.31 percent of its subscribers on 4G at the end of September 2025, against 92.68 percent at Ooredoo and 84.76 percent at Mobilis, which still had 2.54 million 3G subscribers.
• The Medusa system, an 8,760 km Mediterranean cable with 24 fibre pairs and a design capacity of 480 Tbps, is designed to land in Algeria at Algiers and Collo. Its construction contract came into force in early July 2023.
• Mobile coverage can be patchy or absent in remote areas, particularly in the south of Algeria, and some online maps are inaccurate there.
• A cut to the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable at Annaba on 22 October 2015 cost Algérie Télécom 80 percent of its international bandwidth. It rerouted capacity over its second cable, between Algiers and Palma, and reserved most of it for business customers.
• When SEA-ME-WE 4 underwent scheduled maintenance in spring 2020, Algeria's other cables, Orval/Alval between Algiers, Oran and Valencia and Medex from Annaba, were unavailable, and the country fell back on the Hannibal link through Tunisia.
• Licensed operators pay 3 percent of annual turnover into a universal service fund, whose targets include telephone and internet access at a minimum of 2 Mbps in areas without coverage.