National ICT and Telecoms initiatives in Sudan

1. Sudan presentation
13/4/2015
Eng.Sudad Mahmoud Hussein
National Information Center
sudad_m@nicsudan.gov.sd
sudadmh@gmail.com
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2. SUDAN
Name, Location and Area
Population
Airports, Airstrip and Seaports
Economy
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
Mobile operators
Fixed communication
Isps
Traffic
Fiber optic
ICT
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3. Name, Location and Area
Sudan is a Greek word that means (black people).
 Sudan is located in the northeastern part of Africa .
The country occupies the middle part between
Africa and the Arab World.
 Total area of the Sudan is(about 1.882.000 million
km square) which makes it one of the largest
African countries and it comes sixteenth among the
largest countries of the world. Sudan is the thired
largest Arab country and the second African's.
 The Capital: Khartoum
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4.  The blue and white Nile rivers meet in Khartoum to form
the river Nile, which flows northwards through Egypt .
 Sudan GDP is 64.05 billion USD
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5. Map of Sudan
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6. Flag of Sudan
 The flag of Sudan (Arabic: ‫اﻟﺳودان‬ ‫)ﻋﻠم‬ was adopted
on May 20, 1970, and consists of a horizontal red-
white-black tricolor, with a green triangle at the
hoist.
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7. Population
 Population of Sudan in the beginning of the
year 2011 is estimated to (33) million persons
at a growth rate of 2,53% annually.
Religions
 : Islam, Christian.
Languages
 Arabic, English, local languages.
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8. Airports, Airstrip and Seaports
 There are (17) airports in Sudan of
which(6)are international airports, the biggest
one in the capital Khartoum International
Airport and (11) local airport distributed in
states. There are(63)airstrips currently in the
different parts of Sudan.
 The Red Sea is the only navigation outlet for
Sudan to the external world. Port Sudan,
Suakin , Awseif and Bashair are the Sudanese
ports.
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9. Economy
Currency :
Sudanese pound.
Industries :
cement - food oil – sugar - soap - hide products –
foodstuff – mining and transformational
industries.
Exports
animal resources, Gum Arabic , cotton , oil seeds,
gold and Petroleum .
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10. System of Governance
 According to the Interim Constitution for the
year 2005, System of Governance is
federalism.
Levels of governance is represented in the
following:
 Level of the national governance.
 Level of states' governance .
 level to citizens.
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11. SUDAN
infrastructure
Mobile operators
Fixed communication
Isps
traffic
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12. Mobile operators & Fixed communication
 Mobile operators :-
1- ZAIN
2-MTN
3-SUDANI
 Fixed communication :-
1- sudatel
2-canar
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13. operators
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14. Fixed communication
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15. Fixed communication
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16. Infrastructure
 And although Sudan has an impressive spread
of fibre infrastructure, there are still significant
areas of the country that remain unconnected
except through the rather more expensive
means of satellite backhaul. With the
difficulties imposed by the weather , it would
make sense to have higher levels of network
redundancy
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17. equipment manufacturers:
Manufacturers of communications equipment in
Sudan :
 ZTE
 HWAWI
 Ericsson
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18. Traffic
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19. ISP
 Despite the existence of 21 licensed ISPs, the
actual number of companies still offering
Internet services is a great deal smaller. There
are the two fixed line operators – Canar and
Sudatel – and four wireless ISPs that include
Valley Value. The latter two operate using
WiMAX in 3.5 ghz spectrum. Outside of the two
fixed line operators, ISPs seem to operate
across several business areas to survive and
offering connectivity is often simply part of
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20. Sudan
 Fiber optic
 ICT
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21. fiber
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22.  This network linked with Ethiopia and
Egypt with the fiber optic , which also
contributes with the 2 cables SAS1
and SAS2 that links Port Sudan to
Jeddah with 50% partnership with
STC.
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23.  sudan also contributes with the submarine cable of
East Africa ESSAY with 13% that is extended from
Port Sudan to Cape Town linking 13 countries in
eastern coast of Africa that is considered one of the
most important telecommunication projects in the
world and it represents the final link at the
submarine cable.
 In addition to the contribution to the continental
cable ACE with 9% which links the western coast
countries in Africa that is extending from Cape
Town to France.
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24.  The city of Port Sudan has become one of the
biggest telecom cities as a global submarine cable
Forum as well as Sudan has become a Regional
Transmission Centre.
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25. ICT development
 Sudan has quite low penetration rates for fixed as well as mobile
telephony and for internet services.
 in Sudan they are growing the fastest, but the significance of these
growth percentages is limited because their low starting point.
 Clearly, Sudan is also one of the most challenged countries in terms of
expanding the telecommunications penetration rates. The country has
a huge land mass and most of its territory consists of rural areas with
no telecommunications infrastructure whatsoever. Also, the lack of
economic activity demanding telecommunications services in rural
areas, the purchasing power of the population in general, and the very
limited computer literacy provide major hurdles for growth to be
achieved.
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26. ICT
 National policy
 1- human recourse development
 2- provide services through multiple ways to facilitate
access to services for beneficiaries
 3- The implementation of projects and services is done
by the private sector
 4- Review and develop the existing systems and make
sure its approval to national standards
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27. Universal Service & Universal Access
 The concept of universal service for public
services in general is old since the early
last century and aims to remove barriers to
access and spread of services to all sectors
of society in public services, which usually
included in the State such as
communications, mail, Electricity, water,
transportation and which are considered
"Natural monopoly " of national economic
activity. And then see that there are two
aspects to this concept
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28. Universal Service & Universal Access
 First: Availability of services is
known as "universal service".
 Second: Deployment Services is
the famous "universal access".
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29. Universal Service & Universal Access
 Besides the role of the state to benefit from the
services sector all segments of society was a global
trends for the universal service in the least developed
countries is linked to the concept of the "Digital
Divide" and subsided only in the dissemination of
basic services, which was often on the phone fixed
line communications centers in the communities. After
the Tunis Declaration on the empowerment of the
Information Society began the concept of universal
service takes other dimensions associated with the
new concepts such as sustainable development and
the fight against poverty and environmental sanitation
has been linked to plans for local economic
development and health education, environmental,
and in general help local groups to take better
decisions for their own affairs
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30. Universal Service & Universal Access
 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently
determined that the universal service should include the
following services, which the Union considers fundamental
to any human being, one of the core work of the organizers
of the National Communications:
 Providing access to telephone service from a fixed
location.
 Provide a printed manual for the phone.
 The provision of public telecommunications centers.
 Service provision for people with special needs.
 Work to find ways to improve access to service by
reducing the price to be.
 The provision of the Internet.
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31. ICT Projects
 Computer to each family.
 Labs of secondary schools.
 Universal Service Centers.
 Dual Universal Service Centers.
 e-Government support project.
 Computer literacy project, (E-citizen).
 Project Sudanese universities and the Virtual Library.
 ICT research laboratory.
 Support the National Archives.
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32. ICT stratgy
 • Consolidate the information and entrench in society through
the deployment of computers and other aids with easy access
by citizens.
• Work on the implementation of the IT Industry Strategy
approved by the Council of Ministers and the relevant studies.
 • Work to eliminate the disparity between the Centre and
states in his command to spread telecom services and
information technology.
 • Attention to capacity building and provision of computers in
educational institutions.
 • Cooperation with other actors in order to develop policies and
legislation necessary for the development of industry and
information technology for the purpose of establishing training
centers for citizens in cooperation with the National Center for
information.
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33. Difficulties raised by the US
embargo
 All operators report that it is difficult but not impossible
to get the financing required for expansion. However,
the processes of raising finance in a country that is
subject to a US embargo is sometimes time-consuming
and on occasions, it makes it difficult to raise credit. The
latter has led one operator to consider donor financing
for its next round of expansion. In practical terms, it
means that fund transfers are sometimes blocked and as
a result, there can be significant delays (months in
length) with major suppliers.
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34. Difficulties raised by the US
embargo
 As the US embargo covers US and to some extent
European technology companies, it has made it more
difficult for companies operating in Sudan to get hold of
the most up-to-date technologies or it has in some
instances cut down the number of potential suppliers for
a particular technology. This has led one operator to
order a particular network upgrade from a different
supplier to its company-wide, preferred supplier
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35. Future plan
 Sudan will lunch LTE within this year.
 LTE For consumers: better, faster, pocket-sized
multimedia. (multimedia services , voice-over-
IP (VoIP) , Mobile TV )
 LTE For network operators: flexibility,
efficiency and cost savings
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36. FTTH IN SUDAN
i. Sudatel offers fiber based broadband
residential and small or home office
packages at speeds of 1 Mbit/s, in
part of Khartoum with plans to
expand to all location in Khartoum
and other major cities in the future.
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