Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

Angola: Expert Points Out High Costs of Fixed Internet

19 June 2009


Luanda — The programme that aims to spread fixed Internet all over the country would bring higher costs for the State and for those enterprises working with information technologies, affirmed this Friday, in Luanda, computer science expert, Rui Manuel dos Santos.

Speaking to Angop, the chairperson of Sistec board of directors, referred that the national reconstruction is the priority of the moment, once that installing this kind of service would need high amount of money.

According to the source, there is another simply internet way and costing less money, known

as wireless used by mobile-phone enterprises firm, Unitel and Mercury.

So that it happens, that expert said, it is fundamental that communication's operators, who nowadays possess licence to do this type of work take Internet signal up to the last mile, which has not been happening so far.

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