Telecommunications in Senegal

[1] The Government wants Senegal to be a haven for teleprocessing services, with its advantageous geographic position, relatively good telecommunications infrastructure and relatively low wages.

A number of joint venture call centers and the telemarketing businesses have sprung up, most of them servicing the French market.

[1] Radio is the most important medium of mass information and source of news due to the high illiteracy rate.

[2] Senegal is a popular destination for amateur radio operators from Western and European points of origin who participate in "DXpeditions".

A DXpedition is essentially a holiday planned for the purpose of making contacts with other amateur radio enthusiasts around the world.

The license permits Sudatel to offer fixed line telephone and Internet service (for which Sonatel had a monopoly).

[2] However, in 2023 and 2024, the government shut down all mobile internet access by all poviders several times to prohibit communication during periods of unrest due to trials and imprisonment of Ousmane Sonko (2023) and the suspension and delay of the February 2024 national election (2024).

[18] The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded in 2004–2007 the creation of scholarly publishing platforms in Africa ("Système d’information scientifique et technique"),[19] which led to the 2006 launch of SIST Sénégal.

[20][21] According to UNESCO, the Bibliothèque SIST Sénégal is one of two open access repositories in Senegal, the other being Biens Culturels Africains at the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire.