According to a statement released to the media, the status signals to customers that ITA/Paratus offers a service running on top of the complete VMware Cloud infrastructure. Through Cloud Verified partner services, customers attain access to the full set of VMware Cloud Infrastructure capabilities including integration and interoperability, cost optimisation and flexibility, the companies stated....
Africell is confident of increasing competition within Angola’s mobile telecommunications market after securing the licence to serve as the country’s fourth operator. Company executives are now pushing to recruit up to 6500 employees to help roll out its network in the next few years. Africell has made significant investments in telecommunications in Gambia, Sierra Leone...
In the latest update on Angola’s telecoms privatisation programme, news agency ANGOP reported that the sale of state-held shares in TV Cabo, Multitel and Net One will be completed ‘between May and June’ this year, according to Joao Tavares, head of the Privatisation and Company Restructuring Department of the State Assets and Participations Management Institute (IGAPE). Portfolios...
Angola’s state-backed oil firm Sonangol – owner of 50% of Angolan mobile market leader Unitel – has claimed a final legal victory over embattled businesswoman Isabel dos Santos at the Paris Court of Appeal, which upheld a 2019 arbitration decision of the International Chamber of Commerce ordering dos Santos’ Vidatel company to pay indemnities of...
Angola’s President Joao Lourenco has authorised the privatisation of state-held stakes in three telecoms network operators, TV Cabo Angola, Multitel and Net One, Novo Jornal reported. Presidential Orders No. 184/20 and No. 185/20 authorise the privatisation via initial public offering (IPO) of the state’s holdings in TV Cabo Angola and Multitel, respectively, and delegate powers...
Jornal de Angola reports that high speed fixed broadband operator Zap Fibra is expanding its fibre-optic access network footprint in the first quarter of 2021 to reach more consumers in Talatona, a municipality in Luanda province, bordering Angola’s capital city Luanda. According to a statement from Zap Fibra, three districts of Talatona – Dangereux, Fubu...
Angola is expected to be connected to a new submarine fiber optic system in 2023. Construction work on the Nzadi Cable System Project, owned by the Nzadi consortium, has been launched. It should strengthen the offer of broadband connectivity in the country and at the regional level. The Nzadi consortium has launched work to deploy its...
Announced in 2019, mobile payment should soon be available in Angola. Cellular operator Unitel is expected to be the first to provide the service in the country. He obtained his license from the National Bank of Angola which aims for a financial inclusion of 50% of adults by the end of 2022. The mobile telephone operator Unitel...
A new manufacturer of mobile phones has entered the Angolan telecoms market. Afrione officially commissioned its assembly plant on October 14. The infrastructure will produce 100,000 units per year and diversify its types of devices over time. It should create 150 new jobs. Afrione’s mobile phone assembly plant, located in the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone, has officially started...
Leonel Augusto, chairman of the Angolan Institute of Communications (Instituto Angolano das Comunicacoes, INACOM), has indicated that new mobile market entrant Africell should launch commercial services in the second half of 2021, Mobile World Live wrote, citing a report from Jornal de Angola. Augusto stated that Africell is following the procedures required to exercise its right...
