SotelTchad

Societe des Telecommunications Internationales du Tchad (SotelTchad) is a Chadian telecommunications parastatal providing landline domestic and international telephone service, as well as Internet service. SotelTchad was created in 2000, when domestic phone services were detached from the postal service. The government initially stated its intention to privatize the parastatal through international bidding, but this was put on hold. [http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/imr-ri.nsf/en/gr126314e.html "Chad Country Commercial Guide - FY 2005"] by Vincent Spera , U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service and U.S. Department of State (hosted by Industry Canada)] ] Company advertisements in late 2000 stated that there were 10,260 telephones and 1,020 Internet subscribers in the country. [ [http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Africa/Chad-INFRASTRUCTURE-POWER-AND-COMMUNICATIONS.html "Chad: Infrastructure, power, and communications"] , nationsencyclopedia.com] In 2001, SotelTchad agreed to a partnership with ITXC to provide international phone service via Internet telephony [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_August_13/ai_77130083 "National Telephone Company of Chad Now Connected to ITXC; SotelTchad Adds Global Network Expansion With Little Capital Expense"] , "Business Wire", August 13, 2001] However, by 2005 cellphone users on private networks vastly outnumbered the users of landlines.

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