Africa-Press – Angola. From next year onwards, Unitel will expand its signal to remote locations in the municipality of Soyo, province of Zaire, announced, on Friday, the executive administrator for the technical area of this mobile phone operator, Amílcar Safeca.
According to the person responsible, in order to implement this project, a technical team from Unitel will arrive in Soyo in the next 15 days to carry out a feasibility study in places where the equipment will be assembled.
Amílcar Safeca said there are permanent contacts with the Municipal Administration of Soyo to expand this operator’s network to the municipalities of Sumba and Pedra de Feitiço, which currently receive signals from some operators in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
He also announced the expansion of the signal to the border areas of the provinces of Cabinda and Lunda Norte, which, in the same way, are fed by the neighboring country’s mobile network.
“We have information that some border regions of the country such as Zaire, Cabinda and Lunda Norte receive mobile phone signals from the DRC, a situation that we want to reverse in the near future”, he said.
The executive administrator of Unitel said that this situation (sending the signal to another country) has been constantly addressed by the National Communications Institute (INACOM) with counterparts in the DRC, in order to have coordination between telecommunications regulatory bodies.
“International telecommunications rules do not allow mobile phone operators from a neighboring country to send their signal across borders”, he clarified.
In turn, Soyo’s deputy administrator for the technical area, infrastructure and community services, Adelino Nkai, asked for greater speed in the implementation of this project to the region’s communes in order, once and for all, to put an end to the constraints that local populations face in terms of telecommunications.
The executive administrator of Unitel was speaking to the press, on the sidelines of the handover to the Municipal Administration of a pedestrian bridge built by this operator in the Cavalos area, where the optical fiber that connects Soyo to the province of Cabinda runs.
Built within the scope of this operator’s social responsibility, the aforementioned pedestrian crossing aims to facilitate the crossing of fishermen, bathers and other passers-by who frequent the Cavalos area.
Unitel in the province of Zaire is located in the six municipal headquarters, namely Mbanza Kongo, Soyo, Cuimba, Nóqui, Nzeto and Tomboco.
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