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Articles tagged with: Movicel
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. The Reuters news agency noted though that the price paid and nationality of the buyers was not disclosed. more
Contract To Expand Angolan GSM Network
Omnitele says that it has been contracted by operator Unitel to provide support services for the network expansion projects in Angola. Unitel is one of the leading sub-Saharan operators and has operated a GSM network in Angola since early 2001. Since the introduction of GSM services Unitel's subscriber base has been in rapid growth and today Unitel has more than one million subscribers. Due to strong demand for basic services and in order to enable mobile data services, Unitel is starting an important upgrade of the network functionality and capacity to serve up to 3 million subscribers. more
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Angola's movicel has selected Nortel to upgrade its wireless network in Angola to CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology to boost capacity of its MoviNet Service. movicel is Africa's largest CDMA operator, providing high speed wireless broadband services to 350,000 subscribers in Angola's capital Luanda and eight major provinces -- Bengo, Kuanza Norte, Cabinda, Benguela, Huambo, Namibe, Zaire and Huila. more
Nortel wins Angolan CDMA contract
movicel, a cellular operator and subsidiary of Angola Telecom, has contracted Nortel Networks to deploy CDMA2000 1X wireless network equipment in Angola for a complete voice and packet data network. Under a new supply agreement, Nortel Networks has begun to supply a CDMA2000 1X Wireless Data Network for movicel across the capital city of Luanda, which includes approximately 35% of the population of Angola. more
Related Tags: cdma2000-1x, nortel-networks, telecom-egypt, base-station-controller