Unitel (Angola)
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Genre | Telecommunications |
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Founded | 30 December 1998 8 March 2001 (launch) | (constitution)
Headquarters | Sonangol Vidatel |
Website | http://www.unitel.co.ao/ |
Unitel S.A. is a private Angolan mobile phone company which was established on 8 March 2001[1] as a joint-stock company. The company is owned by the Angolan state, having been nationalised in 2022.
Operations and location
The seat of the company is Luanda. It has about 2.000 employees and a network coverage nearly in all the provincial municipalities since 2002.[2]
Unitel sells its services via a network of shops; recharging cards for pre-paid contracts are also sold by individual street sellers all over Angola. Prepaid cards can also be recharged via the Multicaixa network of ATM's. Unitel claims to have 9 million customers[3] out of a population of estimated 18 to 20 million people.
Network
Unitel operates a network based on
Tariff
The tariff is calculated in
Ownership and nationalisation
The company was previously owned by
In October 2022, Angolan President João Lourenço issued a decision finalising the nationalising of Unitel, ending the links of Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angolan longtime ex-president, with the operator.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Unitel, Angolas biggest cellphone operator, ipad.africa.com, retrieved 9 August 2012
- ^ Angola's Unitel To Carry Out US$1.7billion In Network Upgrade telecomafrica.blogspot.com, 20 July 2009
- ^ "Unitel". Unitel S.A. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ "Unitel assegura cobertura em todos os municípios" [Unitel establishes coverage in all municipalities] (Press release) (in Portuguese). Unitel S.A. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
- ^ O'Grady, Vaughan (31 October 2022). "Unitel now owned by the Angolan state". Developing Telecoms.
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