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Link:Sudan and the Telecommunication Industry

Development in Sudan’s Telecommunication industry is one of the most visible achievements, together with Oil, of the present government in Sudan. These two achievements had given the economy a very great boost in spite of the fact that the benefits from oil at least has not reflected itself yet in a visible in the level of living of the majority of the Sudanese people. The development in the area of telecommunication was very impressive and was able to attract considerable investments from outside the country and had given a good number of the population to be in a daily contact with each other through the ingenious invention of the mobile phone. It brought distant people together in an unprecedented way and at a time when the usually well knit Sudanese social fabric is showing signs of decay, at least in Sudans’s urban areas. About 6 % of the Sudan’s population had mobile phones by end of 2005 according to the Arab Advisory Group, Amman.