communications

Telecommunications in Angola

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Angola has 2 Intelsat satellite earth stations for communications across the Atlantic Ocean. 98,200 main lines were reported to be Telecommunications in Angola in use in 2006, and 3.307 mobile cellular lines were reported in 2007.

Fiber optic submarine cable (SAT-3/WASC) communications provides connectivity to Europe and Asia. Internet access in Angola is Telecommunications in Angola provided by MSTelcom, a subsidiary of Sonangol, the national oil company. Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Democratic Alaska Communications Systems Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d Ivoire (Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt1 · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · The Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Telecommunications in Angola Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic · Somaliland Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) · Madeira (Portugal) · Mayotte / Réunion Telecommunications in Angola (France) · Puntland (Somalia) · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) · Southern Sudan (Sudan) · Zanzibar (Tanzania) . It also uses microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter. The international country code for Angola is 244.

HF radiotelephone is used extensively for military links. The domestic system consists of a limited system Telecommunications in Angola of wire. This article is about communications in Angola: Telephone service is limited mostly to government and business use.