The Angolan Government will continue to invest in infrastructure to ensure the country's technological future, according to the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Mário Oliveira.
Speaking of the arrival in Angola of largest submarine cable system in the world, 2Africa, Mário Oliveira stressed that with the aforementioned connection, Angola will see improvements in various segments, such as knowledge, development, science, digital economy, improved employment and “a better future for all”.
"A country can only be built with knowledge, awareness, development and also with great leadership. Our country has great leadership and the proof of that is the support we gave to Unitel, in order to embrace this great project that is 2África”, said the Minister.
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The leader stressed that, with the infrastructure, the sector is putting into practice what is enshrined in the white paper on telecommunications and information technology, “namely in the transformation of Angola into a “hub” important for telecommunications in African.
Mário Oliveira highlighted that, with the aforementioned cable, the country will make its contribution to improving communications in neighboring countries.
The minister recalled that even in this month of July, another a fiber optic connection with Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
With this additional infrastructure, he said, the country will be in a position to improve connections with these countries and give substance to an African network that is being built with the collaboration of all African countries.
As it turned out, the 2Àfrica consortium cable is over 45.000 km long, designed to provide continuous international connectivity to approximately 3 billion people, representing 36% of the global population and connecting three continents, Africa, Europe and Asia.
The system, which is expected to come on stream in 2024, is expected to deliver more than the total combined capacity of all submarine cables currently serving Africa, with a capacity of up to 180 Tbps (Terabits per second) in the main segments of the system. .
The project is a consortium with Vodafone, WIOCC, China Mobile International, MTN, Orange, Telecom Egypt, STC and Meta (Facebook).
