Sudatel owns and operates regional ICT infrastructure including fixed-line telephony, national fiber backbone (~25,000 km), subsea cables, data centers, and provides wholesale connectivity services (Source), (Source).
Sudan
Valid from
Organization: Any kind of organization. The Organization class represents a kind of Agent corresponding to social instititutions such as companies, societies etc.
About
Sudatel (Sudatel Telecom Group) is a Network Operator that owns and operates regional ICT infrastructure, wholesale connectivity, and diversified telecom services across Africa, established in 1993 as Sudan's first privatized telecom entity with operations starting in 1994, listed on the Khartoum Stock Exchange in 2003, and provides fixed-line telephony, national fiber backbone (~25,000 km terrestrial fiber), subsea cables (60% stake in Arab Submarine Cable Co., shares in EASSy, SAS1/SAS2, ACE), data centers, satellite backhaul, and wholesale services. Sudatel wholly owns Sudani as its mobile/retail subsidiary (Source), (Source), (Source), (Source).
Operator Characteristics
Wholesale-only Network Operator?
Yes
Sudatel is wholesale-only; it is a Network Operator that provides wholesale connectivity, international bandwidth, and infrastructure services, and does not sell services directly to end-users (retail services are provided through its subsidiary Sudani) (Source), (Source).
Business-only ISP?
No
Sudatel is not business-only; it is a Network Operator providing wholesale infrastructure access, not serving end customers directly (Source).