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Togo

The Centre d'Assistance de Formation et d'Etude (Cafe) Informatique is the largest full Internet service provider based in Lomé, offering e-mail, Web page creation and hosting, web publishing, and dial-up and leased lines access.

The national telecom, Togotel, has established a 256 Kbps satellite link to Sprint, USA and a 128kbps link via Alterent. It is currently reselling leased lines to a total of 7 ISPs, namely AGN, BIB, IDS, IMET, NETCOM, LORDAF, RDD and DEFI.

Tariffs at Togotel ( US$ 1.00 = FCFA 626.63 as of September 1999)

Access types	Connection charge	Monthly subscription
Leased line - 64 Kbps	FCFA 550,000	FCFA 1,500,000
Leased line - 28.8 Kbps	FCFA 109,000	FCFA 600,000

Source: Togotel, 1999

Internet host sites: 158 (2000)

Internet subscribers (1999)

• Total: 1,700
• Internet users per 10,000 inhabitants: 3.84

Internet Users (1999)

• Total: 10,000
• Users per 10,000 inhabitants: 22.16

Internet use by categories:

• Commercial: 75%
• Academic/Research: 5%
• NGO/non-profit organisations: 5%
• UN/International: 10%
• Government: 5%:

Internet bandwidth (Kbps): 384

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