Luanda — The Angolan telecommunication company "Telecom" will employ a high tech. anti-fraud system in telecommunications network which will start operating this year, aimed at "protecting the network from actions of defrauder, combat the phenomenon and discourage the offenders.

Speaking to Angop, the company's administrator for commercial area, Antóno Briffel Neto, said Tuesday in Luanda, that the USD 1.7 million anti-fraud system will enable the country to control the national telecommunications network and prevent theft of the large sums of money through the fraud.

According to the administrator, Telecom defends the existence of specific legislation on fraud in telecommunications, which takes into account the various types of crimes and the existence of this kind of management mechanisms that allow fraud to protect the interests of the Angolan and operators of the sector.

Angola Telecom, in collaboration with the economic police, has developed measures to detect and dismantle groups of domestic and foreign defrauder, whose activity has caused considerable damage to the national economy.

The company has been implementing, since July 2008, a proposed expansion and modernisation of the fixed telecommunications network, estimated at USD 102 million, which covers the provinces of Malanje, Zaire, Bié, Moxico Kuando Kubango, Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul, whose completion is set for the end of 2010.

The implementation of this project will enable the installation of new networks in the country for access to copper and wireless, 3,276 kilometres of optical fibre, and 6000 telephone lines and the installation of 392,000 and VSAT lines, 761 in the Internet broadband (ADSL) and 13,000 wireless fixed lines (CDMA).