Basic HTML Version
119
www.ebizguides.com
Information Communication Technology
by the government, the National Wire and Wireless
Corporation was replaced by a public share compa-
ny called the Sudan Telecommunications Company
(Sudatel).
The goals of Sudatel are to:
- Comprehensively provide developed information
and communication services using the latest
technology to meet the developmental
infrastructure needs of the nation
- Use the latest up-to-date technology to broaden
the telecommunication coverage; to raise their
operational network capacity and to turn out highly
qualified personnel
- Improve their network quantitatively
and qualitatively
- Emerge as a carrier for regional traffic between
Africa and the rest of the world
- Boost the company’s continued success, making
profits and competing internationally
- Expand their service base to cover remote areas
by using the most modern technology
Thanks to its rapid development, Sudatel has
gained a good reputation in the region and is now
well-known on the stock-markets of Abu Dhabi and
Bahrain.
The company has been the most active share busi-
nesses on the Khartoum Stock Exchange since
1997. It attracts Sudanese, Arab and foreign inves-
tors and has about 10000 shareholders, including
fourteen local banks and more than 80 regional Su-
danese companies.
Sudatel is the second Arabian communication com-
pany to be awarded the ISO certificate and the first
company in the Middle-East to change from an
analog to a digital system. Since 1999, the company
uses 2 million dollars of its profit share every year to
support social welfare community projects in health,
water and orphan care.
Sudatel actively participates to keep the comprehen-
sive development of the company moving forward.
This has become an important means to attract for-
eign investors in different major sectors; Nowadays,
the economy allows for an ease of information trans-
ference at all levels. Communication technology is
the main vehicle towards globalization. The digital
network covers the entire Sudan with fibre-opitic
reach of more than 7000 kilometers and the com-
pany covers more than 700 towns and villages.
Since its inception, Sudatel has employed a strategy
designed to attain the highest national and interna-
tional standards. The regional telecommunications
traffic link has been established by Sudatel, through
underwater cables from Sudan to Saudi Arabia and
to Ethiopia. Sudatel extends its fiber-optic network
to Egypt thus reaching the Arab World and Europe.
Sudatel has contributed in East Africa cable network
from Sudan to South Africa through the India Ocean
and in crossing the White Nile to link Kenya and
Uganda.
ZAIN
Elfatih M. Erwa
Managing Director
Mogran, Alghaba Street, Khartoum
Tel: +249 183 746060 / 741618 /
741619
Fax: +249 183 741616
corporate@sd.zain.com
www.sd.zain.com
Activity: telecommunications
Date of Creation: 1997
Ownership: Zain Group
No. Employees: 1196
Roaming: Agreements with more than 366 operators
worldwide!
One Network: The first borderless mobile phone
network. This service allows you to make outgoing
calls at local rates, recharge by using the local re-
charge cards, receive incoming calls for a minimum
charge & Access home network service (Voice mail,
customer care, credit transfer). One network service
is available in: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq,
Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Ma-
lawi, Gabon, Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Congo Brazzaville, Burkina Faso & Mobinil Egypt.
Number of Employees: 1178.
Market Share: 60 % of the Sudanese market as a
premium GSM Services Provider, as of July, 2010.
Zain in Sudan (formerly Mobitel) is the pioneer of
GSM services in Sudan, for being the first in provid-
ing mobile telecom services back in February 1997.
Today it serves the largest number of mobile custom-
ers in the country with 9.1 million active customers
as of July 2010.
Zain (then known as Mobitel) was a joint venture be-
tween the Sudanese Telephone Company Ltd and
several private shareholders until 2006, when it was
fully acquired by the Zain Group (formerly MTC) as part
of its strategy of becoming first a regional, then a global