Society of Mali's Telecommunications (sotelma)

SOCIETY OF MALI'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SOTELMA) is a Mali-based telecom operator whose mobile arm is known as Malitel and has been marketed under the Moov Africa Malitel brand since 2021. Public profiles describe it as part of Maroc Telecom’s group structure, with local state participation referenced in ownership discussions.

Network intelligence sources associate SOTELMA with AS21271, originating a limited set of IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes and showing a small number of observed external BGP adjacencies. Public BGP views also indicate upstream/peer relationships involving SONATEL and Maroc Telecom/IAM-linked networks, consistent with a national-operator footprint in Mali.

User-review signals are fragmented and not consistently aggregated in major global review platforms, so a high-confidence sentiment score is hard to derive. Where commentary exists in public forums and local press, it mixes service complaints with general operator criticism, without a stable consensus.