Introduction
How is the communication system in Angola? Here, Broadcast media include state controls all broadcast media with nationwide reach; state-owned Televisao Popular de Angola (TPA) provides terrestrial TV service on 2 channels; a third TPA channel is available via cable and satellite; TV subscription services are available; state-owned Radio Nacional de Angola (RNA) broadcasts on 26 stations; approximately20 private radio stations broadcast locally. What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Angola
| Internet country code | .ao |
|---|---|
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
| Total | 230,610 (2020 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 0.7 (2020 est.) |
| Internet users | |
| Total | 11.55 million (2021 est.) |
| Percent of population | 33% (2021 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | |
| General assessment | Angola’s telecom sector in recent years has benefited from political stability, which has encouraged foreign investment in the sector; the government and regulator have also set in train mechanisms to open up the telecom sector to new competitors, mobile services were launched in April 2022; the MNOs were slow to develop LTE services, instead relying on their GSM and 3G network capabilities; there has been slow progress in LTE network development, with only a small proportion of the country covered by network infrastructure; the Ministry of Telecommunications in early 2021 set up a 5G hub to assess 5G user cases; the regulator in November 2021 granted licenses to various companies offering 5G services, with spectrum in the 3.3-3.7GHz range having been set aside for such services (2022) |
| Domestic | Less than one fixed-line per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity about 44 telephones per 100 persons (2021) |
| International | Country code - 244; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, WACS, ACE and SACS fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to other countries in west Africa, Brazil, Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 29, Angosat-2 satellite expected by 2021 (2019) |
| Telephones - fixed lines | |
| Total subscriptions | 94,000 (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | (2022 est.) less than 1 |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | |
| Total subscriptions | 23.978 million (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 67 (2022 est.) |
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