[UgaBYTES] Telecommunication companies in Sudan competes for better services to community

[ahmed digital]

During this month three occasions will take places (1) big Eid (2) Christmas
(3) new year.  In sudan we have 4 telecommunications companies (1) Sudatel
or Sudani (2) Zain (mobitel before) (3) MTN (areeba before) (4) Canar . each
one offer its subscriber special offer (more than 12 million subscribers).
Sudani offers two packages mega 1 and mega 7 .  on mega one they deduct  0.5
dollar per day and you call international for 0.25 dollars per minutes. On
mega 7 they deduct 3.5 dollars per week and make international calls for
0.14 dollar per minute. On the other hand zain offers 50% discount through
out Decembers (0.25 dollar per minutes international) and you can call every
one have zain globally for the same price of local calls and also every one
who has ZAIN or SUDANI and he is in saudia ariaba (bigrims or haj) can  call
or his family call him as if he calling locally less than 0.05 dollar per
minutes. Canar offers talking 20 min. per dollar national and talking one
hour nationally  from canar to canar for only  0.30 dollars . on the other
hand MTN call for free nationally and call 4 minutes and get 4 minutes for
free internationally. On the other hand the internet connection is reduced
to 30 dollars per month (24 hour/ day ) for the ADSL to 50 dollars per month
(24 hour/ day )  for MDSL (mobile) to maximum 100 dollars  per month (24
hour/ day ) for very high speed G4.

I want to conclude that high cost and low speed of internet is one of the
challenges facing Telecentres sustainability. And it is completely solved in
sudan by having more than one internet service provide and sometimes you can
download a file of 250 M.B in less than 50 minutes.


-- 
AHMED M. M. EISA
MOBILE       00249912331155
KHARTOUM alamaraat P.O.BOX 15021- post code 12217
WWW.GEDAREFCITY.ORG
http://sudantelecentreacademy.org
Gedaref digital city organization  is a non-profitable and NGO (Gedaref
Sudan)  It is the founder of the first digital city in Sudan (2005) and the
first national Telecentre academy in Africa (SuNTA 2008) It is the winner of
information for development award (i4d 2007) Also the winner of information
for development award (i4d 2008) It has strong partnership with the great
people of Eindhoven through the digital city of Eindhoven (DSE) were 750
computers were donated to establish many projects in Sudan.