Angolan cellco Unitel has announced the launch of the country’s first commercial 5G service – a fixed wireless home broadband internet offering named ‘NetCasa’, initially covering customers in three zones of capital city Luanda, according to its online coverage map. Five NetCasa package options provide unlimited data volume at ‘guaranteed’ download speeds between 10Mbps and...
Angolan government proposals to privatise mobile market leader Unitel will not take shape until at least end-2023, reports newspaper Valor Economico quoting Patricio Bicudo Vilar, the chairman of the board of directors of Angola’s State Assets & Participations Management Institute (Instituto de Gestao de Activos e Participacoes do Estado, IGAPE). The executive added that it has...
Angola’s Minister of Natural Resources, Oil & Gas, Diamantino Azevedo, has announced that the government is preparing to open an international public tender to find new shareholders for the country’s mobile market leader Unitel, reports Jornal de Negocios. The minister told journalists that the move is aimed at protecting strategic telecoms sector assets and ensuring...
Angola’s President Joao Lourenco has issued a decision finalising the transfer of ownership stakes in mobile market leader Unitel from private companies Vidatel and Geni to the State. The nationalisation of the two shareholdings – representing 25% equity each – effectively raises the Angolan State’s Unitel ownership to 100%, as TeleGeography notes that Brazilian telco Oi completed...
Angola’s mobile market leader Unitel reported on its website that it has deployed ‘5G voice and data services’ to the localities of Talatona, Ingombota and Maianga, all in Luanda province, alongside 4G LTE network expansion to the localities of Lubalo (Lunda Norte province) and Porto Amboim in the province of Kwanza Sul. TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database notes that...
The demand for telecom services and connectivity is accelerating in Angola. To meet this demand, Unitel is increasing its investments in extending its network across the country. Angolan mobile phone operator Unitel has extended its northern submarine cable to Cabinda province. The objective of this initiative is to improve the quality of telecom services and Internet access...
The American Africell entered the Angolan telecom market in April 2022, promising to usher in a new era of competition. Unitel, the market leader, is making strategic investments to stay ahead. Angolan telecommunications operator Unitel has chosen Chinese technology giant Huawei as a strategic partner for its future projects. The two companies recently signed a three-year agreement...
In May 2020, Africell obtained its global license to become the fourth telecom operator in Angola. The company is finalizing the final settings for the official launch of its operations in a few weeks. The mobile phone operator Africell, the latest arrival on the Angolan telecom market, signed a network interconnection agreement with the operator Unitel...
The energy transition in several economic sectors is currently at the heart of major political debates around the world. As the climate crisis deepens, more and more telecom operators are rethinking their network to help protect the planet. Angolan mobile phone company Unitel is working with Chinese tech giant Huawei to deploy and integrate green energy...
Angolan mobile market leader Unitel reports on its website that its 4G LTE network now covers all 18 of the country’s provincial capitals, compared to 17 previously, while its combined 4G and 3G coverage now reaches ‘516 locations, communes and municipalities’. LTE voice and data services have recently been extended to another nine locations in seven provinces, namely: Sumbe...
