Communication / ICT in Sudan
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BOTSWANA, 2016/02/08
"Mean spirited", "inhumane" and desecrating the spirit of the Refugee Convention are some of the milder criticisms levelled at Denmark's harsh new asylum laws, passed last week.
Part new measures is a decision to strip new arrivals of any cash and valuables worth additional than 10,000 kroner (US$1,450), purportedly to pay for their upkeep. Switzerland and some southern German states have introduced similar policies.
It's a move that reflects the fragmenting world of European migration policy, lacking in solidarity, empathy and basic human decency. But what of the financial implications for asylum seekers?
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SUDAN, 2015/07/30
The Minister of Communications and Data Technology Dr. Tahani Abdullah Attia chaired Monday at the Communications Tower the initial conference of the Council of Minister next the new formation of the ministry.
The conference discussed a presentation on the new structure of the headquarters of the ministry and the plans and projects that are being implemented at the level of the National Communication Corporation and the National Data Centre presented by the Director of the National Communication Corporation Dr Yahiya Abdullah and the Director of National Data Centre Engineer Mohammed Abdul-Rahim Yassin.
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EGYPT, 2014/10/11
Somebody asked me the other day whether the Arab Spring had affected the growth in the mobile subscriber market, and which was now the fastest growing region.
The countries affected were and are major players. Markets where a regime change was engineered are Egypt (34% of the regional total); Tunisia (5%); and Libya (6%). There were major protests in Algeria (18%); Morocco (15%), and Sudan (9%) (1). The creation of a new nation in the form of South Sudan has created further problems for the Sudanese government.
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SUDAN, 2014/06/02
The Sudanese Telecommunication Corporation (STC) has withdrawn service from hundreds of thousands of subscribers, who failed, next months of warning, to register their SIM cards, known as Subscriber Identity Module (SIM).
The official Sudan media Centre on Sunday said the Corporation has been warning customers of the three companies operating in the country, Zain, Al Sudani and MTN, to register their SIM cards, providing basic data on the holder of the Card or risk losing the services.
The corporation, the body that supervises telecommunication in Sudan, said millions of subscribers have failed to comply with the new regulation.
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SUDAN, 2012/12/09
Sudan has the highest sales tax for mobile phone services in North Africa and the Middle East, a new statement published by the Arab Advisors Group has said.
Sudan has the highest sales tax rate on cellular services in the region followed by Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco.
The analysis of the cellular rates in the Arab World has revealed that the postpaid average minute rates in Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia, Lebanon and Kuwait are above the average peak minute rate. Sudan recorded the lowest average postpaid minute rates.
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BOTSWANA, 2012/07/30
As people the world over go online, the majority of users' primary means of Internet access will be their mobile phones. This is according to the new “Traffic and Market Statement” by Ericsson, which looks at the mobile landscape for the next five years.
Ericsson's chief of strategic marketing and intelligence, Patrick Cerwall, says: “The Internet is going mobile. Mobile PC and tablet subscriptions will, by 2017, be on the same level as fixed broadband subscriptions.”
