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18 companies to bid for Sotelma (Mali)

  • August 29th, 2008
  • 10:48 am

18 companies have been finalised to bid for the national operator Sotelma. The government increased the price to XOF 200 billion for the incumbent operator, from XOF 80 billion.

Possible bidders include:

  • MTN
  • Vodafone
  • Zain
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • Tunisie Telecom
  • Maroc Telecom
  • Portugal Telecom
  • Saudi Telecom
  • Sudatel

Sudatel pays USD 200 mln for Senegalese licence (Sudan)

  • September 11th, 2007
  • 11:25 am

Sudanese operator Sudatel has received a telecommunication licence from Senegalese regulator ARTP, reports Agence de Presse Senegalaise. Sudatel bid USD 200 million compared to Bintel’s USD 152 million and Celtel’s USD 105 million offers to win the global licence, enabling entry to all telecommunication segments, according to ARTP director general Daniel Seck. Belgacom and Comium Africa had also expressed interest. Under the licence terms, the new company must be at least 15 percent owned by local interests. The government has called on Senegalese operators to buy a stake in Sudatel’s local unit. Rothschild and Clifford Chance provided financial and legal advice on the auction process. The last such licence was awarded to Senetel for USD 100,000 in 1998.

   

Sudatel pays USD 200 mln for Senegalese licence (Sudan)

  • September 11th, 2007
  • 6:58 am

Sudanese operator Sudatel has received a telecommunication licence from Senegalese regulator ARTP, reports Agence de Presse Senegalaise. Sudatel bid USD 200 million compared to Bintel’s USD 152 million and Celtel’s USD 105 million offers to win the global licence, enabling entry to all telecommunication segments, according to ARTP director general Daniel Seck. Belgacom and Comium Africa had also expressed interest. Under the licence terms, the new company must be at least 15 percent owned by local interests. The government has called on Senegalese operators to buy a stake in Sudatel’s local unit. Rothschild and Clifford Chance provided financial and legal advice on the auction process. The last such licence was awarded to Senetel for USD 100,000 in 1998.

   

Mauritania gets 3G (Mauritania)

  • August 27th, 2007
  • 1:34 pm

Mauritania’s third cellco Chinguitel has launched 3G services with coverage of 4,000 km of main routes throughout the desert nation on the western edge of the Sahara. Chinguitel is majority owned by Sudan’s national telecoms company Sudatel. Technology Minister Oumar Ould Yali said, ‘Chinguitel has paid more than MRO27 billion (USD105 million) and signed agreements to ensure mobile coverage of several towns across the country and contribute to promoting access to information technology.’ Mauritania is currently served by two mobile providers, Mattel, partly owned by Tunisian investors, and Mauritel, partly-owned by Maroc Telecom, and had 600,000 subscribers at the end of 2005 out of a mostly nomadic population of some three million.