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Reporters Without Borders
Somalia
Source: http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=7212
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18.06.2003
The country has been online only since 1999 and is very behind in new information technology. Just a few hundred people surf the Internet in the 40 or so call-shops and Web-bars in the capital, Mogadishu. One reason is that Somalia only has a total of 2,000 phone lines. The cost of calls fell in 2002 but is still very high for one of Africa's poorest countries. A rare event in the history of the Internet happened in November 2001, when the country was completely disconnected for two months, after the sole ISP, Somalia Internet Company, and the main telecommunications firm, al-Barakaat, were forced to close. They had been accused by the US government of funding Al-Qaeda and were put on the US list of those supporting terrorism. In January 2002, a new ISP and telecommunications company, NetXchange, began operations, filling the gap left by the closed firms.
Links :
* "Internet Returns to Mogadishu", in AllAfrica.com, January 23, 2002: http://allafrica.com/stories/200201230295.html
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