Senegal awards third mobile licence to Sudan telephone firm

September 7, 2007 (DAKAR) — 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 .

(Reuters)