TELECOMMUNICATIONS: La license du troisième opérateur attribuée à Sudatel (Soudan)

 

Le Sénégal vient d'attribuer la license du troisième opérateur télécom ( Mobile et fixe) à la Société Soudanaise de Télécommunication (Sudatel), mettant ainsi fin au monopole de la Sonatel sur la téléphonie fixe et les services Internet. Sudatel était en compétition avec 2 autres compagnies. Il s'agit de Celtel (Koweit) et Bintel du Groupe Bin Ladden (Arabie Saoudite).

( Voir dépêche Reuters en Anglais)

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Senegal awards third mobile licence to Sudatel

DAKAR, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Senegal granted a mobile and fixed-line operating licence to Sudan Telecommunications Co. (Sudatel) for $200 million on Friday, the West African country's telecoms watchdog ARTP said.

The licence makes Sudatel the third mobile operator in the former French colony and ends the monopoly in fixed-line and Internet services of Sonatel, a partly state-owned company whose major shareholder is France Telecom .

"Sudatel has been judged the winner of the bidding round," ARTP director Daniel Goumalo Seck told a news conference.

Sonatel last year relaunched its Alize mobile unit under France Telecom's international Orange brand. It competes in Senegal's mobile services market with Tigo, a unit of Luxembourg-based Millicom .

France Telecom holds a 42.33 percent stake in Sonatel. The Senegalese state holds 27.67 percent.

Sudatel beat offers from Celtel, a subsidiary of Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co , and from the Saudi Bin Laden Group for the Senegal licence.