Africa-Press – Angola. The country’s communications market will have, since Tuesday, a National Monitoring Center (CNMC), opened in Luanda, by the minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, to regulate and monitor the sector.
Manuel Homem explained that the center will also focus on monitoring communications not authorized by the Angolan Institute of Communications (INACOM), in order to avoid interference capable of harming and affecting the functioning of commercial activities.
“It is a milestone for the country”, he said, adding that it is necessary to install Provincial Monitoring Centers. “Currently there are similar centers in Cabinda, Cunene, Huambo, Benguela and Huíla. The following phases of the project will include the modernization and monitoring of radio communications”, said the minister.
“The center will not monitor personal data, but the use of services and infrastructures that guarantee greater security for the country, in all areas related to the Communications sector, such as aeronautics that use frequencies”, he said.
The CNMC, he explained, cost the state more than ten million dollars. “The Executive has made investments in the country’s communications sector in different segments, from operators to private companies, which include civil aviation, maritime services, radio and television broadcasting”, he informed.
INACOM, he added, as the regulatory body for communications in the country, must improve the working relationship with operators in the sector. “The center will make it possible to identify some interference or misuse of communications by service providers”, he underlined, adding that “interference will continue to exist, even with the creation of the center”.
In the past, he revealed, the country had Communications Monitoring Services that worked under more difficult conditions. “Therefore, there is a need to make investments capable of ensuring the monitoring of communications in the capital and in the other 12 missing provinces”.
INACOM’s National Communications Monitoring Center is located in a three-storey building, whose works began in late 2021 and employs 30 professionals, with specific responsibilities in the area of management, monitoring and control of communications services throughout the country.
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