Residents of the province of moxico complain about the lack of public and free internet access points in the nine municipalities in the region, with emphasis on those of the “Angola Online” project, which have been without communications for over two years.
According to what was revealed in a report by the ANGOP, the provincial capital of Luena had only three internet access points for over 468 inhabitants, which facilitated users to carry out searches and share information via social networks, free of charge.
The internet points worked in the Complexo Monumento à Paz, Avenida 1º de Maio, as well as in the Garden in front of the Provincial Government, areas that were very frequented by civil society in the province, but which have been inoperative for about two years, as well as in other regions of the province, making it difficult for the population, fundamentally the youngest, to enter the digital world.
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For university psychology student Artur Santos, who regularly went to the garden on Avenida 1º de Maio to carry out research on academic content and maintain communication with the world, a situation that he stopped doing due to the inoperability of the equipment.
In response, the director general of the National Institute for the Promotion of the Information Society – INFOSI, André Mpumba Pedro, informed that the inoperability of the internet points in the province of Moxico is due to the vandalism of the materials that ensure their operation.
Although he did not give a certain date, he revealed that the implementation of a new internet distribution method is underway, with the use of the services of the ANGOSAT-2, which will facilitate the assembly and maintenance of the equipment.
