Angola Telecom is a
telecommunications
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and
Internet service provider
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of
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
. Angola Telecom is an ''empresa publica'', i.e. wholly owned by the Angolan state.
Subsidiaries
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of Angola Telecom include:
*Infrasat, offering satellite telecommunications services.
*Angola Cables, offering international access for data and voice.
*TVCabo, offering broad band cable service for television and radio broadcasting.
*Multitel, a portal offering a wide range of internet services.
*ELTA, Empresa de Listas Telefonicas de Angola, an online
telephone directory
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.
*Movicel, offering mobile telecommunications services.
Angola Telecom created the
mobile phone
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provider
Movicel as subsidiary, but holds since 2010 only a minority part of the shares of Movicel.
In 2010 Angola Telecom began a program of restructuring led by a team of international consultants. In 2014, Bloomberg reported that the company was on track to produce its first net profit in over 8 years. However, the economic collapse fueled by the devaluation of crude oil has likely erased any gains achieved thus far.
See also
*
MSTelcom telecommunications provider of
Sonangol
*
Movicel mobile phone provider
*
Unitel (Angola) mobile phone provider
External links
Angola TelecomELTAngolaMultitelTVCaboAngola CablesInfrasat
Telecommunications companies of Angola
Telecommunications companies established in 1992
Angolan brands
Government-owned companies of Angola
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