The North Africa Journal: HP to Expand in Libyan Market

HP to Expand in Libyan Market
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jblin on 02 November, 2009 05:19:00
 
Our take: This once again demonstrates Libya’s intention to open up to foreign
investments. Foreign tech companies like Nokia, LG, Samsung, Huawei, Alcatel
Lucent, Nokia and Ericsson, already have a strong presence in Libya. We expect
other leading foreign companies to make inroads into the Libyan market,
especially now that Libya recently invited bids by foreign companies to provide
private cell phone and landline services to increase the level of competition in
the Libyan wireless market, drive innovation, but most importantly fuel the
wireless growth in the country.
For HP, opening new sales and support subsidiaries in Libya does not come as a
surprise as Libya is a key IT/wireless strategic market in North Africa. It is
also one of the most advanced wireless markets in Africa. Last September, Libyan
carrier Al Madar announced its plan to adopt LTE, bypassing 3G completely. JBB
Research recently published an analysis on this. To learn more about it, click
here. This should help HP reinforce its leadership in the African IT market as
HP claims to be the number one vendor in Industry Standard Servers, management
software, PCs and printers, and a leading vendor in the networking, storage and
the services market.