Luanda: Angola has registered 74 mobile telephone subscriptions for every 100 inhabitants since April this year, announced the country’s Minister of State for Economic Coordination, Jos© de Lima Massano, on Thursday in Luanda. Speaking at the opening of the annually held International Forum on Information and Communication Technology (ANGOTIC 2025), taking place in the Angolan capital, Luanda, the minister said that in 2002, when the impact of new telecommunications operators began to be felt in the local market, only one in every 130 people was a subscriber to mobile telephone services.
According to Angola Press News Agency, the minister added that the expansion and modernization of support infrastructures in land, maritime, and space components is another good example of technological development and sharing. He noted that the fiber optic network covers much of Angola, connecting provincial capitals and major municipalities. It also allows neighboring countries, such as Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, and the Republic of the Congo, to connect to the submarine cable system docked in Angola.
“There are still many challenges, but our commitment to Angola’s technological development is firm,” he said. Massano stated that the country continues to invest in the modernization of public services, expanding digital connectivity throughout the country, and providing technical training to young people, with the goal to create an ecosystem conducive to innovation that puts technology at the service of people.
