About This list
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Internet Access providers in Africa
v. 1.4 (15-Mar-95)
copyright B. LIPS 1994-1995
This list contains internet access providers i.e. companies
that sells connection (via modems or others high speed connections) to
internet network.
I'm also maintaining lists of internet providers in Africa, Asia, South/Central America,
Western Europe, Central Europe and Russian Federation.
If you have other information, please drop me a mail !
If you contact providers of this list, would you mention this source
as your reference. It will encourage providers to send me updated
information, which will improve the reliabilty of this list !
Country names conforms to IS0-3166 recomendations.
Copyright B.Lips - Pegase 1995. This compilation is copyright and protected under
national and international treaties world-wide.
All rights reserved.
Limited Licence
This list may be distributed freely for private personal reference. It
may not be used on any publication without B. Lips written permission.
I make no representations about the suitability or accuracy of this document
for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
All information contained herein is subject to change.
Benoit Carl LIPS lips@pcpm.ucl.ac.be (preferred)
or 100336.2155 (CompuServe).
AVAILABILITY
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WWW (new) : http://www.best.be/iap.html
FTP : sumex-aim.stanford.edu <171.65.4.3>
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-africa-14.hqx
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-asia-11.hqx
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-middleeast-11.hqx
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-westeur-22.hqx
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-centreur-22.hqx
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-rusfed-22.hqx
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-southamer-11.hqx
/info-mac/comm/info/internet-dialin-centramer-11.hqx
(As Sumex is not always available, use the mirrors ! )
The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world.
For the site list, request it by mail info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
or try: gopher://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/help/mirror-list.txt
Other locations :
Usenet News : alt.internet.access.wanted, alt.internet.services
Directory of internet access ...
CompuServe : Stored as WESTEUR.TXT, CENTREUR.TXT, RUSFED.TXT,CENTRAME.TXT,
SOUTHAME.TXT, AFRICA.TXT, ASIA.TXT and MIDEAST.TXT
GO ZMC:DOWNTECH in internet library[5]
GO CIS:INETFORUM in Accessing the net library[4]
This list is updated at least once a month (due to internet growth and thanks to help of kind
readers who send me a lot of new informations/updates/ comments).
If you want to warned when new releases are available, send me a mail lips@pcpm.ucl.ac.be
with the words SUBSCRIBE AVAILABILITY.
OTHER REFERENCES
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Fidonet African network is one of the most important throughout the world. Fidonet nodes can
be founded in nearly every country.
As this file is dedicated to full internet access only, Fidonet nodes or UUCP only providers are
not listed here. But for people interested, I suggest to have a look at
"Connectivity with Africa by Randy Bush" randy@psg.com
You can get the current version of the file at any time by two primary means
as follows:
URL:gopher://rain.psg.com:70/00/networks/connect/africa.txt
Or by sending email to the automatic server
To: server@gopher.psg.com
From:
Subject: send pub/gopher-data/networks/connect/africa.txt
UPDATES V1.4
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Egypt : FRCU
Senegal : MMT Projet RINAF
South Africa : CIS
ALGERIA
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** Algeria Net
06 Rue Frederic MISTRAL Telemly
Algiers
Phone : +213-2-612-715
E-Mail : Sid-Ali Bettache sbettache@algeria.gn.apc.org
** CERIST (has TCP/IP connectivity)
Rue des Trois Freres Aissiou, Ben-Aknoun
Algiers, BP-47 Hydra
Phone : +213 2 792136
Fax : +213 2 792126/ +213 2 792138
E-Mail : cerist2@cnuce.cnr.it
** EUnet Algery
Services : Dialup Internet Access (TCP/IP based services), Mail, ...
E-Mail: Algeria@EU.net
Phone : +213.2 369791
Fax : +213.2 369792
BURKINA-FASO
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** ORSTOM
ORSTOM - 01 BP 182 - Ouagadougou
Contact : Dominique REMY remy@ouaga.orstom.bf
Phone : (226) 30 67 37 / 30 67 39
Fax : (226) 31 03 85
** ORSTOM - OCCGE - Centre Muraz
Antenne ORSTOM -01 BP 171 Bobo-Dioulasso 01
Contact : Dominique REMY remy@ouaga.orstom.bf
Phone : (226) 97 12 69
Fax : (226) 97 09 42
CAMEROUN
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** ORSTOM
ORSTOM - BP 1857 - Yaounde
Contact :Jacques BONVALLOT bonvallot%yaounde.orstom.cm@rio.org
Phone : (237) 20 15 08
Fax : (237) 20 18 54
CONGO
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** ORSTOM
ORSTOM - BP 181 - Brazzaville
Contact : BOUCHEZ J. Michel bouchez%brazza.orstom.cg@rio.org
Phone : (242) 83 26 80 / 81 / 82
Fax : (242) 83 29 77
EGYPT
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** EUnet Egypt
Services : Dialup Internet Access (TCP/IP based services), Mail, ...
E-Mail: ow@estinet.uucp
Phone : +20.2 3557253
Fax : +20.2 3547807
** Egyptian National STI Network
101 Kasr El-Aini St./ Cairo 11516 /Egypt
Phone : +20 2 355 7253
Fax : +20 2 356 4421
E-mail: mb@estinet.uucp or estinet!mb@relay.EU.net
** FRCU (Foreign Relations Coordination Unit) (New)
Modem Dial Up numbers: (Cairo)
627284, 5726131, 5716345
5716346, 5716344
Hotline: 5735405
For more info try: XXXXXXXXX@FRCU.EUN.EG
Where XXXXXXXXX stands for one of the following:
AAKADER, AMNAGEIB, DINA, ELATTAR, MAHS, MHUSSIN, MKHALIFA, OLA
SEHAM, TEDRI, SYSOP, NETOP, POSTMASTER, ELKOTB, ADEEB, NASHWA
** IDSC/RITSEC
Regional Information Technology & Software Engineering Center (RITSEC)
11 A Hassan Sabry Street
Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
E-Mail : tkamel@ritsec.com.eg
Phone : +202-3403538
Fax : +202-3412139
ETHIOPIA
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** PADIS
Pan African Development Information System
Box 3001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Services: Terminal, UUCP
Phone: +251(1)511 167
Fax: +251(1)514 416
Email: sysop@padis.gn.apc.org
IVORY COAST
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** ORSTOM
ORSTOM - 15 B.P. 917 - ABIDJAN 15
Contact : BROU Mian brou%abidjan.orstom.ci@rio.org
Phone : (225) 24 37 79
Fax : (225) 24 65 04
KENYA
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** ELCI
Phone : 254 2 562 015
E-Mail: sysop@elci.gn.apc.org
MADAGASCAR
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** ORSTOM
Contact : Jeannette RAZANAMIADANA razanami@orstom-tana.rio.org
Phone : (261) 23 30 98
Fax : (261) 23 30 98
ORSTOM - BP 434 - 101 Antananarivo
MALI
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** ORSTOM
ORSTOM - BP 2528 - Bamako
Contact : DIAMOUTANI Mamadou diamouta@bamako.orstom.ml
Phone : (223) 22 43 05 / 22 27 74
Fax : (223) 22 75 88
NIGER
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** ORSTOM
ORSTOM - BP 11 416 - Niamey
Contact : Boubacar MOUSSA-ABDOU boubacar%niamey.orstom.ne@rio.org
Phone : (227) 73 20 54 / 72 31 15
Fax : (227) 72 28 04
SENEGAL
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** ORSTOM
ORSTOM - BP 1386 - Dakar
Contact : Herve CHEVILLOTTE chevillo@dakar.orstom.sn
Phone : (221) 32 34 76 / 32 34 80
Fax : (221) 32 43 07
** Dakar /Ministere de la Modernisation et de
la Technologie (MMT Projet RINAF)
Contact : DIAGNE Fadhel
Phone : (221) 21.51.63 / 22.96.19
** Agence Panafricaine d'Information
Contact : FALL Babacar fallb@pana.pana.sn
Fann-Mermoz, B.P 4056 - Dakar
SEYCHELLES
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** ORSTOM
Contact : Olivier DUFOUR duf@seychel.orstom.fr
Phone : (248) 247 42
Fax : (248) 245 08
Seychelles Fishing Authority Headquarters -
Rue des Frangipaniers - BP 570 Victoria-Mahe
TOGO
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** ORSTOM
Contact : Richard GOZO gozo@lome.orstom.fr
Phone : (228) 21 43 44 / 21 43 46
Fax : (228) 21 03 43
ORSTOM - BP 375 - Lome
SOUTH AFRICA
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** Aztec Information Management
P O Box 6844
Roggebaai 8012
Cape Town, South Africa
Phone : +27 (21) 419-2690
Fax: +27 (21) 25-1254
E-Mail : info@aztec.co.za
Services : Unix shell accounts (including menu interface)
(all the usual tools)
SLIP and PPP dialup connections
UUCP connections
Fixed links (leased line, Diginet X.25 etc)
World-Wide-Web server and setup consulting
PoPs in Cape Town and Johannesburg, Access via Easy Access from
all other centres
** Commercial Internet Services (CIS)
Online Services, CSIR
P.O. Box 395
Pretoria, 0001
Republic of South Africa
Services : SLIP and PPP dialup connections
Fixed links (leased line, Diginet, Frame Relay, X.25 etc)
World-Wide-Web server and setup consulting
Access to Worldnet Gateway Database queries
Access to Compuserve Africa via Internet
Secure routers and firewall solutions
We supply dial-up acces in Johannesburg, Pretoria, CapeTown, Durban amd
Nelspruit, And we will have a node in Port Elizabeth soon.
Phone : +27 (12) 841-2892
Fax : +27 (12) 841-3604
E-Mail : info@cis.co.za
** Internet Access
Compustat Pty Ltd
6 Thicket Road
Newlands / 7700 SOUTH AFRICA
Services : Unix shell accounts (including menu interface)
(all the usual tools)
SLIP and PPP dialup connections
UUCP connections
MHS and WordPerfectOffice email links
Fixed links (leased line, Diginet, Frame Relay, X.25 etc)
World-Wide-Web server and setup consulting
Contact : Daniel Todes, Steve Davies, Wolf Laudien
Phone : +27 21-6834370
Fax : +27 21-6834695
E-Mail :info@iaccess.za
Note : We have dialup access in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port
Elizabeth. Users in other centres can use Telkom Easy Access to reach us.
** SANGONET
13th floor Longsbank Building
187 Bree Street
Johannesberg 2000
South Africa
Services: Dial up PPP/SLIP, UUCP,TCP/IP
Phone : +27 (11) 838-6944
Fax: +27 (11) 492 1058
E-mail: sn-info@wn.apc.org
SANGONeT is a non-profit network offering electronic communications
and information to development workers in Southern Africa.
** TICSA
The Internetworking Company of Southern Africa
PO Box 15525
Vlaeberg 8018
Area Served: Southern Africa
Phone : +27 21 4192768
Fax : +27 21 251254
E-mail: info@ticsa.com
TUNISIA
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** EUnet Tunisia
Services : Dialup Internet Access (TCP/IP based services), Mail, ...
E-Mail: mondher@Tunisia.EU.net
Phone: +216.1 787757
Fax: +261.1 787827
TUNISIA
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** Tunisia (TN)
IRSIT
BP 212, Rue Ibn Nadime Cite Mahrajane
Tunis 1082
E-Mail : Makni, Mondher mondher@tunisia.eu.net
Phone : +216 1-787-757
Fax : +216 1 787 827
UGANDA
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MUKLA
Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda
Services: Terminal, UUCP
Phone: +256-41-532-479
E-Mail: sysop@mukla.gn.apc.org
ZAMBIA
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** ZAMNET
ZAMNET Communication Systems Limited,
Box 32379,
Lusaka, Zambia
SERVICES :
i) Full dedicated Internet access using TCP/IP over local leased line..
ii) Dial-Up Internet access using PPP.
iii) E-Mail only access using fidonet.
Phone : +260-1-293317
E-Mail : sales@zamnet.zm
Note : ZAMNET is a new company offering Internet services to commercial
andnon-commercial subscribers in Zambia. Services will begin in October 1994.
In the meantime ZAMNET is providing an e-mail only fidonet service to 250+
non-commercial users from all parts of the country.
ZIMBABWE
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** MANGO
c/o Dept of Computer Science, University of Zimbabwe,
PO Box MP-167, Harare
E-Mail :Rob_Borland@mango.apc.orgorjohnux@zimbix.uz.zw
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