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![A ministerial committee on mobile telephony at a meeting in Juba. [©Gurtong/Juma John Stephen]](https://www.oyetimes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/africa_EDTD-A_ministerial_committee_on_mobile_telephony.jpg "New Mobile Telephony Rules For South Sudan")
The South Sudanese Deputy Minister of Telecommunication and Postal Services Beatrice Khamisa Wani on Wednesday told the five South Sudan mobile operation companies Zain, MTN, Sudani, Gemtel and Vivacell that they risk being driven out of business in two weeks if they don’t effect the directive.
“We have information that 150, 000 people within South Sudan are still using the Sudan country code, +249. But for us this is a very serious issue because this separation of networks is not only about giving services for us as a country, but is a national security matter. So, we would rather lose the subscribers than loose the autonomy of this country”, Khamisa said.
The minister also expressed concern with the discrimination of mobile telephony services in the remote areas as most companies concentrated in the urban centres.
“Since the government wants its citizens to reap the peace dividends all over the country, it has come up with a policy of shared infrastructure”, said Khamisa.
The independence of South Sudan on 9 July 2011 meant that South Sudan equally separated from the Sudan country code to its own +211 and the South Sudanese Ministry of Telecommunication has been mandated to ensure the directive is implemented.
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the mobile telephony firms interviewed by Gurtong welcomed the idea, but expressed reservations over security issues.
“The infrastructure sharing is a good idea and I hope that the Ministry will come up with some regulations to guide this. Gemtel has already completed the transfer to the +211 code”, said the Gemtel CEO, Ghadafi Mohamed.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry Juma Lugga Stephen said the areas at the borders will be the first to be looked at in implementing the new order.
The Republic of South Sudan and Sudan are not yet recognised in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) database due to the border issue.
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