Besides SOTELMA, four private
Internet Service Providers are operating in Mali: Bintta SA/MaliNet, Cefib, Datatech and Spider.
The ISP Spider opened a cybercafe
in Bamako. The cybercafe is run by two permanent staff. It provides Internet
services (to students at half price), and the staff organizes training programme on
Internet and Intranet.
Internet fees at Bintta (where
US$ 1.00 = F CFA 632.61 as of June 1999)
- Dial-up access - 14 hours/month:
subscription F CFA 25,000 (US$ 39.52), F CFA 3,000 (US$ 4.74) per additional hour.
- Dial-up access - 40 hours/month:
subscription F CFA 50,000 (US$ 79.04), F CFA 2,000 (US$ 3.16) per additional hour.
- Dial-up unlimited access: F CFA
70,000 (US$ 110.65)
Internet host sites: 49
(2000)
Internet subscribers
(1999):
- Total: 750
- Internet subscribers per 10,000
inhabitants: 0.63
Internet Users (1999):
- Total: 10,000
- Users per 10,000 inhabitants: 9.12
Internet use by categories:
- Commercial:
- Academic:
- Research:
- NGO/UN/International:
- Government:
- Others:
Internet bandwidth (Kbps):
128
