Telecommunications in Sudan
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NTC , the ICT regulator). The telecom sector currently has an annual growth of 30% making it communications the fastest growing in the world. Demographic · Economic · Military Algeria · Angola · Benin · Telecommunications in Sudan Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d Ivoire (Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt1 · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · The Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Telecommunications in Sudan Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic · Somaliland Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) · Madeira (Portugal) · Mayotte / Réunion (France) · Puntland (Somalia) · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) · Southern Telecommunications in Sudan Sudan (Sudan) · Zanzibar (Tanzania) . But the market is still considered to be virgin and huge investment opportunities exist and shall explode with the full realization of peace and stability throughout the country .
By that time, Sudan had one of the lowest penetration rates (0.23%) even by regional Telecommunications in Sudan standards. The Three-Year Economic Salvation Programme (1990-1993),adopted by the Government of Sudan, emphasized the role of telecommunications in the socio-economic development process and called for the removal of the monopolistic environment in the sector and for the involvement of the private sector-whether local or foreign-in the telecommunication sector as well as in other sectors of the economy in an endeavour to overcome the persistent shortfalls in investment and performance. All forms of entities established were government-owned that remained, for all practical purposes, entities without little or no operational and financial autonomy and little control over their own destiny. Despite many development plans and efforts, the state of telecommunication sector in the country remained extremely poor up to the year 1994.
As an outcome of this programme, the structure of the telecommunication sector in the country at present is as follows: a) The Ministry (Ministry of Information & Communications):in charge of policies and legislations. (Source: National Telecom Corp.
c) The Licensed operators and service providers: in charge of the operation of licensed networks and of the provision of the services. Fixed Services SUDATEL 19/04/1993 TDM/MPLS 1,493,674 200 locations 411,000 CANAR YEARS 1994 2000 2004 2005 2006 FIXED Capacity X 1000 150 416 1500 1500 1500 Subscribers X 1000 64 386 1929 680 515 MOBILE Capacity X 1000 - 20.0 1250 2000 4800 Subscribers X 1000 - 16.7 1050 1866 3370 Internet services are available via : Note : No internet services were available before 1996. (*)Licensed Providers of value-added Services : .sd ARABSAT 1468 Circuits, Arab World MIDNET 60 Circuits, Africa INTELSAT 398 Circuits, International BT E/S 180 Circuits, Internet Submarine system-SAS 149 systems, International (*) Optic fiber link to Ethiopia 60 Circuits, Ethiopia Optic fiber link to Egypt 240 Circuits, Egypt (*) One System ≡ 30 circuits The liberalization and privatization of the telecommunication sector, the policies, the regulations and plans adopted by the Government of the Sudan have created a capital–attracting, pro-competitive policy environment that have fostered the build–up of a modern, fully–digital infrastructure in the country and furnished a climate suited to enhance ICTs development nationwide. The remarkable transformation and achievements witnessed in the Sudanese Telecommunication sector coupled with the growing and diversifying use of the ICT services including those of the Internet and its applications have been a success story that made Sudan to be widely held among the most developed in Africa, if not in the Middle East. Since that time, the entity in charge of telecommunication had undergone a number of organizational restructuring changes.
