MAP > Internet Providers in Sudan

Sudan makes the northern part of the country that in the year 2011 went ahead and separated to create a new state of South Sudan. Seventy-five percent of the former population used to live in the north, where the mobile market penetration is far much higher. This countries has well-equipped telecommunications infrastructure by the regional standards, and this includes the national optic backbone and the international fiber connections. The economy has not performed well in the recent years, with the hyperinflation that results from effects of having lost so much of the oil reserves to the South Sudan country and the domestic volatility as well as the social unrest.

This country has remained subject to the United Stations Security Council sanctions that include the arms embargo, the travel bans as well as the freeze on some assets. The economic climate is a bit hostile for the operators to grow revenue from the services and be able to invest in the infrastructure upgrades. Nonetheless, Sudatel in the year 2016, started to invest in the rural tower infrastructure so as to enhance connectivity, despite such measures not having a big effect and in early 2018, it went ahead and signed deals with the Nokia company to be able to upgrade the mobile infrastructure and with the Liquid Telecom to be able to build out the fiber broadband network across the country.

The competition in the fixed-line market comes from the Canar Telecom that was the majority was owned by the Etisalat Company until when this company sold 92.3% interest to Bank of Khartoum in the mid- 2016. Operator opted to go ahead and adopt the CDMA2000 technology to the cost-effective roll out fixed services and in the year 2017 on April, secured spectrum in a 2.5GHz band that has ensured it to be able to launch the LTE services.

Some of the key developments in this report include

- Sudatel reports a 26.8% fall in terms of the revenue for the Q1 2018.
- Report update does include operator data to the Q2 2018, the recent market developments.
- Hyperinflation caused a revenue decline for telcos.
- Regulator gets to award 2.5 GHz spectrum license to the Canar Telecom for the LTE services.
- Sudatel went ahead and announced 7 million investment plan to the year 2020, contracts to be able to build the mobile towers in the rural areas; the launches LTA-A in Khartoum.