After 5 years, the "Aden Net" service was launched in Mukalla, with 15,000 subscribers
English - Tuesday 07 March 2023 الساعة 08:07 am
Aden, NewsYemen, Ammar Ali Ahmed:
With an official ceremony and wide media coverage, the legitimate government launched the fourth generation service "Aden Net" in the city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout, in the first step to launch the service outside the capital, Aden, 5 years ago since the establishment of the company.
The former president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, inaugurated the "Aden Net" company as a government provider of fourth-generation services in the liberated governorates, at a cost of more than $100 million in August 2018. However, the company has faltered since that date, and its activities have been confined to the city of Aden with a limited number of subscribers.
In May of last year, the Minister of Communications, Najib Al-Awaj, promised to expand the service and cover the entire capital, Aden, and launch it within one month in 5 liberated governorates, provided that it will be launched in the rest of the liberated governorates in the second phase.
After 10 months, the minister re-launched these promises in his meeting in the city of Mocha with a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, Brigadier General Tariq Muhammad Abdullah Saleh, in mid-February, where he promised to launch the service in the city of Mukalla at the end of February, provided that the service will be launched in Seiyun and Lahj. It will appear after one month, provided that it will reach the cities of Al-Khawkhah in Al-Hodeidah and Al-Turbah in Taiz in a next stage.
On Sunday morning, the minister, accompanied by the governor of Hadramout Mabkhout bin Madi, launched the Aden Net 4G service in the city of Mukalla, in the presence of a number of heads of the ministry’s bodies and sectors in the governorate, agents and leaders of the local authority.
According to what was published by the official "Saba" agency, Al-Awaj reviewed the distinguished services that the service will provide to subscribers with an initial capacity of 15 to 20 thousand subscribers that can be expanded according to economic feasibility, and it is a good and fast service that matches the requirements of the labor market, health and media, as he claimed.
The figure mentioned by the minister in his speech confirms the modest technical capabilities of the Aden Net service and its inability to absorb large numbers of subscribers, and that its reality in the city of Mukalla will not differ from its situation in the city of Aden since the company was inaugurated 5 years ago.
This confirms the announcement of a limited number of subscribers, which is 20,000 for a governorate whose population exceeds one million, according to the last population census in 2004. A small number compared to the population density in Hadramout will make it difficult to obtain service, as is the case in the capital Aden 5 years ago.
This step reinforces the state of the government's continuing inability to confront the Houthi militia's control of the communications file by finding an alternative service for it in the liberated areas, competing with what is provided by the communication companies under the control of the militias in Sana'a, which are currently racing against time to cover the Yemeni map with the fourth generation service to win the largest number of subscribers.
