5-2-1 Telecommunications

5-2-1 Telecommunications

  Sudatel is a private company where the government has the majority of shares but only 20% of the voting power and control. Sudatel is in charge of the provision of a national backbone, including national and international telecommunications services, and it has a 15-year lease with effect from 1994. Sudan is currently traversed by communication lines consisting of over 2,500 kilometers of optical fibre where 2 Mb is reserved for data; SUDOSAT (Sudan Domestic Satellite), which has 36, ground stations in remote towns; Intelsat, Arabsat satellites; and over 60 VSAT stations.  Sudatel has also a well-set-up Telecommunications Training Centre. It also initiated Sudatel Electronic Library Project for establishing a multi-purpose broadband databases in multi-disciplinary system to store, update, transfer and retrieve all forms of data as well as full access to local foreign knowledge-based resources. The project targets academic, educational and professional groups and foundations. The information data received by the library and those dispensed to customers shall be in multimedia digital forms. It aims to ensure all necessary academic and professional periodicals in all branches of knowledge; and connect interested users to world reputed libraries. Sudatel is interested to invest this project in the following sectors: distant Learning Courses, digital centers, electronic publishing centers, electronic consultation, electronic digital advertising and Promotion, and I.Q and psychoanalysis Tests