Sotelma is a private

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

company in

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

. The company is based in

Bamako Bamako ( bm, ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ ''Bàmakɔ̌'', ff, 𞤄𞤢𞤥𞤢𞤳𞤮 ''Bamako'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2009 population of 1,810,366 and an estimated 2022 population of 2.81 million. It is located on t ...

. Sotelma provides

local telephony Local telephone service is the provision of telecommunications networks and services within a limited geographic region. Traditionally, local telephone service was provided by small companies based in given cities and towns as opposed to larger, ...

, international telephony,

internet service An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise private ...

and

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service, etc. Its mobile service subsidiary is

Malitel Malitel is a mobile telephone service provider in Mali. It is a subsidiary of Sotelma, the national telecommunications company. Malitel's service is supported by Siemens AG Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation ...

. It is also the official registry of the

.ml .ml is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mali. History The domain was initially managed by Sotelma, a Malian telecommunications company. After Sotelma was privatised in 2009, the .ml zone was redelegated by IANA The ...

country code domain. The full name of the company in the

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is "Société des télécommunications au Mali". In 2008, it was announced the government of Mali would privatise Sotelma to an unnamed private party. The company would be divided with 51% going to a single private investor, 20% retained by the government, 10% going to employees, and 19% sold by public offer. Privatization was finalized in 2010. On 13 July 2009, 51% shares of Sotelma were acquired by

Maroc Telecom Maroc Telecom (Acronym: IAM, ar, اتصالات المغرب) is the main telecommunications company in Morocco. Currently employing around 11,178 employees, it is the largest telecommunications network in the country with 8 regional delegations ...

. As of 2002, Sotelma had a total worth of 43,817 billion CFA francs, over 1300 staff, operated 1100 km of fibre optic transmission line, 9 DOMSAT relay stations, 19 VSAT stations, 110000 telephone subscriber lines and 5241 public phones.Official Sotelma site: Chiffres clés
2002-03-23

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* Telecommunications companies of Mali Companies based in Bamako Maroc Telecom {{Mali-stub