From the 3G to the 4G, the very high speed illusion in Madagascar

Madagascar has been having the bad reputation of being the country with the world’s highest Internet connection costs. In spite of the progressing connections to the international network per fiber optic, better service promises are popping up, but prices are not dropping. The ISP Moov maintained its ADSL offer at 187 000 ariary (1 euro=2800 ariary) however while doubling the speed from 512 to a theoretical 1000 kbps. The real time speed is “fair”, between 850 and 950 kbps in download speed. Moov announced its   3G+ mobile internet solution as a high speed option. Comfort with 300 kbps is very much relative, and the price is not that cheap. The “time no limit” offer limited in up and downloaded volume is costing 187 000 ariary for 1500 ko. 
 
 Orange almighty is, for the time being, mightless in Madagascar for being penalized by the justice and by the state, actually a shareholder within the competition. The multinational company cannot yet challenge the court of the Internet’s big boys in spite of its own fiber optic cable linked to the SAFE network and its own national backbone, the high speed’s deployement is repeatedly hindered by constraints from the telecommunication’s regulating institute. Orange is compelled to sell a very expensive byte even though the proposed 1Mbps speed is interesting. The ISP is asking for 239 000 ariary for 3Go of transmitted data. In order to survive to this very particular economic situation, the wireless phone line operator melted its internet network with that of the ISP Blueline. 
 
The 4 g, too expensive for the very high speed,   
The ISP Blueline made its business from the wireless technologies and nearly dropped the previous wired ones. The Wi-Max and CDMA technologies confirmed its number 2 statute, as the cell phone connection offers are still struggling to blossom in a restricted market. Blueline is realistically become ” the innovation’s leader” by overtaking the other ISP still developping the 3G+ solution. The ISP is making a pride from proposing solutions based on Madagascar’s best technology panels. Thanks to the 4G, Blueline is able to propose the Triple Play offer, a melting pot of Internet connection, cell phone line and television in an single contract. The advantages are a very high speed and an access technology entirely focused on the Internet protocol.   
 
Could Blueline manage to democratize the 4G, Madagascar would overtake France system 3G of which is still being popularized. The lack of service, however, makes such a race baseless. Blueline wants to propose the numeric TV, fully compatible with the 4G very high speed. The ISP is, however, only proposing 512 and 1000 kbps high speed. Customers will have to pay some 390 000 ariaries for a 2 Mbps high speed and 690 000 ariaries per month to expect 4Mbps. They will equally have to subscribe to the TV offer, and pay a middle pack of 70 000 ariaries for Malagasy channels and 35 international channels. In short words, technology improvements is diametrically opposed to what is being promised by the ISPs: lowering prices.