- Sotelma
Sotelma is the state-owned
telecommunications company inMali . The company is based inBamako . Sotelma provideslocal telephony , international telephony,internet service andmobile telephone service, etc. Its mobile service subsidiary isMalitel . It is also the official registry of the.ml country code domain.The full name of the company in the
French language is "Société des télécommunications au Mali".In 2008, it was announced the the government of Mali would privatise Sotelma to as yet unnamed private party. The company will be devided with 51% going to a single private investor, 20% retained by the government, %10 going to employees, and 19% sold by public offer. [ [http://www.itu.int/ituweblogs/treg/Mali+Sotelma+To+Be+Privatized.aspx Mali - Sotelma to be privatized] International Telecomunications Union, 13 July 2008]
As of 2002, Sotelma had a total worth of 43,817 billion CFA francs, over 1300 staff, operated 1100 Km of fibre optic transmission line, 9 DOMSAT relay stations, 19 VSAT stations, 110000 telephone subscriber lines and 5241 public phones. [ [http://mali.viky.com/sotelma/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=104 Official Sotelma site: Chiffres clés] 2002-03-23]
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External links
* [http://www.sotelma.ml/ Sotelma fr icon]
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