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Latest Telecoms News from Angola
Alvarion Wins Angolan WiMAX Contract
WiMAX vendor, Alvarion says that it has won a network expansion contract in Angola from local ISP, Mundo Startel. ...
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Angolan Government Sells Majority Stake in Movicel
The Angolan government has announced the sale of 80% of the country's second largest phone company, Movicel to several companies in one of the country's biggest post-war privatisations....
Angolan Operator Plans $1.7 Billion Spending Plan Over 4 Years
Angolan mobile network operator, Unitel says that it will spend around US$1.7 billion over the next four years upgrading its infrastructure and expanding the mobile network...
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Mobile Markets in Mozambique and Angola Set for 5-Year Boom
Revenues in the Angolan mobile communications market are set to triple by 2015. While growth in Mozambique may be slightly lower, the high demand for services in both countries is creating lucrative investment opportunities....
Angolan Operator Launches Comverse Voice Services
Comverse has announced that Angola's largest mobile operator, Unitel SA, has launched its Voice HUB, a single platform for all voice applications that introduces services and new revenue opportunities....
Related Tags: visual-voicemail, voicemail, comverse, unitel
Ericsson to Manage Angolan Network
Ericsson and Angola's Unitel have signed a contract for network performance consulting and continued expansion of Unitel's GSM/WCDMA network over the coming three years. ...
Related Tags: wcdma, alcatel-lucent, cdma, ericsson, unitel
Mobile Phone Death Threat "Virus" Arrives in Angola
Phone users in Angola seem to have been hit by a variant of the fake phone warnings which affected many users in Pakistan and Afghanistan last year. The warnings, often spread by SMS, but also by word of mouth claimed that "as soon as you answer your phone blood comes out of your mouth, nose and ears and you die"...
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Intelsat Providing Backhaul Capacity for African Cellular Networks
Satellite provider, Intelsat has announced two new customer agreements with cellular telecom providers in Kenya and Angola to provide backhaul connectivity for rural base stations....
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