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

[NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul]

Dear Ahmed,

I really appreciated the quality Infrastructure for Internet connection in
Sudan. When we came for EATLF in Khartoum, I really enjoyed the free and
high speed Internet connection within the airport for exemple. This is
something I never seen in any other place I have visited.
I am sure the government of Sudan has done a very good job by investing in
the fiber optic cable.
Sincerely
> 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.
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NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul
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