Angola currently has over 17 million mobile phone subscribers, according to the National Director of Telecommunications and Information Technologies, Matias Borges.
The Director, who was speaking in reference to the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day, which is celebrated today(17), added that Angola has more than seven million Internet users and more than two million subscription television subscribers, as well as around 22.000 kilometers of optical fibre, an important infrastructure for the provision of electronic communications services.
Matias Borges also recognized that it is important to continue working and develop initiatives to achieve the objectives of the Angolan Government, which consist in the continuous observance of the principle of digital inclusion, embodied in the need to create and promote conditions that make it possible for all citizens to access ICT and Information Society Services.
In his speech, he stressed that the goal is to allow connectivity and broadband access to the entire population, at comfortable prices, with the provision of quality services, as well as the implementation and development of new applications, public and electronic services essential to growth and prosperity of the country.
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For the official, telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in achieving healthy aging, combating discrimination based on age, helping to build smarter cities and ensuring the inclusion of all, referring that the Executive is aware of the primordial role that Telecommunications and Information Technologies play as a fundamental lever in the process of socioeconomic development, fundamentally in the fight against poverty and in the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals, which defined the sector as fundamental in the process of modernization of governance , social, economic development and social inclusion.
In this context, he added, in compliance with the objectives and targets defined in the 2018-2022 National Development Plan and in the ICT White Paper, actions were outlined whose results are reflected in the continuous improvement in the provision of basic public telephone services, Internet access and associated services, focusing on quality, according to the needs of users.
