Le Sénégal vient d'attribuer la license du troisième opérateur télécom ( Mobile et fixe) à la Société Soudanaise de Télécommunication (Sudatel), mettant ainsi fin au monopole de la Sonatel sur la téléphonie fixe et les services Internet. Sudatel était en compétition avec 2 autres compagnies. Il s'agit de Celtel (Koweit) et Bintel du Groupe Bin Ladden (Arabie Saoudite).
( Voir dépêche Reuters en Anglais)
Senegal awards third mobile licence to Sudatel
DAKAR, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Senegal granted a mobile and fixed-line operating licence to Sudan Telecommunications Co. (Sudatel) for $200 million on Friday, the West African country's telecoms watchdog ARTP said.The licence makes Sudatel the third mobile operator in the former French colony and ends the monopoly in fixed-line and Internet services of Sonatel, a partly state-owned company whose major shareholder is France Telecom .
"Sudatel has been judged the winner of the bidding round," ARTP director Daniel Goumalo Seck told a news conference.
Sonatel last year relaunched its Alize mobile unit under France Telecom's international Orange brand. It competes in Senegal's mobile services market with Tigo, a unit of Luxembourg-based Millicom .
France Telecom holds a 42.33 percent stake in Sonatel. The Senegalese state holds 27.67 percent.
Sudatel beat offers from Celtel, a subsidiary of Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co , and from the Saudi Bin Laden Group for the Senegal licence.
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