Société des Télécommunications du Mali
Type: | Private |
Industry: | Telecommunications,Registry |
Founded: | 1989 |
Ownership: | The Moroccan telecommunications group (2008) |
Headquarters: | Society of Mali's Telecommunications BP: 740 Bamako, Mali |
Country: | Mali |
Businesses: | Malitel |
Employees: | 1001-5000 |
Revenue: | MAD 17 million (2010), MAD 112 million (March 2011) |
Website: | malitel |
Facebook: | Sotelma |
LinkedIn: | Sotelma |
Key People | |
Aboubacar Cisse,Technical contact Noureddine Boumzebra, Director General |
Sotelma is Mali-based telecommunication company. It provides local, international and mobile telephone services as well as internet services.[1] It is the official ICANN accredited registrar for .ml domain names, which began giving away free domains through Freenom in 2013.[2][3] As a mobile operator Sotelma is the second largest in the area, ikatel being the first.[4] Sotelma has 70,000 GSM subscribers, 60,000 of which are pre-paid.[5]
The Moroccan telecommunications group bought 51% shares of Sotelma for 275 million euros in 2008.[6]
Privatization
Its privatization started in 2008 by the government of Mali. The shares are divided as:
References
- ↑ malitel
- ↑ Mali Gives Away Its .ML Domain Names for Free, BusinessWire. Published 2013 April 7. Retrieved 2015 September 9.
- ↑ iana
- ↑ businessmoniter
- ↑ balancingact-africa
- ↑ globserver
- ↑ cellular-news
- ↑ itu