London — At the end of last month, three new ISPs launched in Senegal. Arc Informatique's Mohsen Chirara has waited over twenty years for this point and spoke to me about his long-term vision and current plans.
Mohsen Chirara's Arc Informatique has been around as a Senegalese ISP since 1996:"We started up with a dial-up service and then moved on to ADSL. Our licence didn't allow us to build infrastructure so we worked with existing telcos like Sonatel." In fact Arc Informatique ended up in the corporate niche and was Senegal's only surviving ISP.
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