Telecommunications in Angola

route. Point 11 is Luanda, Angola. • 29 satellite earth stations (2009). • SAT-3/WASC fiber optic submarine cable provides connectivity to Europe and Asia. Angola Telecom is one of twelve companies participating in the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium, a submarine communications cable running along the west coast of Africa and on to Portugal and the United Kingdom. On 23 March 2012 Angola Cables signed an agreement to participate in the construction of the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) of about 6000 km length linking Fortaleza in Brazil with the Angolan capital Luanda. This cable is planned to be operational from the 2014 world football championship in Brazil. ADONES (Angola Domestic Network System) consists of 1,800 kilometers of fiber-optic submarine cable linking eight Angolan coastal cities. About 70 percent of Angolans live close to the sea. Other planned fibre optic cables to Angola include SAex and ACE. ==Telephone==

• 303,200 fixed lines, 116th in the world, two lines per 100 persons (2011). • 13 million mobile cellular lines, 65 lines per 100 persons (2011). • International country code: 244. Angola Telecom, the state-owned telecom, held a monopoly for fixed-line telephone service until 2005. Demand outstripped capacity, prices were high, and services poor. Telecom Namibia, through an Angolan company, became the first private licensed operator in Angola's fixed-line telephone network. By 2010, the number of fixed-line providers had expanded to five; Angola Telecom established mobile-cellular service in Luanda in 1993 and the network has been extended to larger towns. A privately owned, mobile-cellular service provider began operations in 2001. HF radiotelephone is used extensively for military links. ==Radio==

• 21 AM, 6 FM, and 7 shortwave radio broadcast stations (2001) • 630,000 radios (1997) The state-owned Radio Nacional de Angola (RNA) broadcasts on 5 stations. Roughly a half dozen private radio stations broadcast locally. ==Television==

• 6 television broadcast stations (2000) • 150,000 televisions (1997) The state-owned Televisão Pública de Angola (TPA) provides terrestrial TV service on two channels and a third TPA channel is available via cable and satellite. TV subscription services are also available. ==Internet==

• Internet hosts: 20,703 hosts, 116th in the world (2012). • Fixed broadband: 27,987 subscriptions, 124th in the world; 0.2% of the population, 162nd in the world (2012). • Mobile broadband: 5.000.000 subscriptions. 2015. In its Freedom on the Net 2013 and Freedom on the Net 2014 reports, Freedom House rates Angola's "Internet freedom status" as "partly free". There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet. In March 2014, corroborating information from military sources was found, affirming that a German company had assisted the Angolan military intelligence in installing a monitoring system at the BATOPE base around September 2013. There was also evidence of a major ISP hosting a spyware system. ==See also==