A Unitel invested more than 700 million dollars in infrastructure in the last four years, which represents “the biggest investment in the last ten years” in this airline, according to the general director of Unitel, Miguel Geraldes.
Speaking on the sidelines of the “V Conference on Digital Transformation: Telecommunications, Digitization and Financial Inclusion”, the person responsible informs that “Unitel has a very high investment in infrastructure, namely in national optical fiber, we are talking about values of several billion dollars,” he explained.
Along the same path, Gonçalo Farias, administrator of Africell, revealed that the sharing of infrastructure between the Africell and Unitel did not take place.
In turn, Miguel Geraldes, CEO of Unitel, argued that sharing was not possible because Africell is also your customer. “We provide circuits to Africell in areas outside Luanda“He said.
BUT: Unitel will provide internet connection to telecommunications operators in neighboring countries
Meanwhile, the CEO of Unitel, a company with the largest infrastructure network in the country, says that Angola is in the best positions on the continent in terms of telecommunications infrastructure.
"I know several national fibers in the region and several countries, we only compare ourselves with South Africa, and at the moment there are already comparisons with Kenya. In addition to these, there is no other country where there is a national level of national optical fiber as we have in Angola“He said.
Therefore, he considers that the country has a “competitive and quite mature” level of infrastructure, which requires long-term planning.
