 SONITEL

SONITEL (an acronym of Société Nigérienne des Télécommunications or Nigerien Telecommunications Society) is the Nigerien national telephone and telecommunications carrier.It was created in 1997 as a fusion of the telecommunications arm of Nigerien Posts and Telecommunications (Office des Postes et Télécommunications – OPT, the Postal Office) and the STIN (Société des Télécommunications Internationales du Niger / International Telecommunications Society of Niger) which controlled land line telephone connections abroad.