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Angola Telecommunications
Telecommunications in Angola have also improved since
independence. The number of telephone subscribers has
grown from
24,500 in 1974 to 52,000 in 1986. Luanda was estimated to
have twothirds of all telephones. Two state bodies were
responsible for
telecommunications: the National Telecommunications
Company
(Emprêsa Nacional de Telecomunicações--Enatel) for
domestic
service, and the Public Telecommunications Company
(Emprêsa Pública
de Telecomunicações--Eptel) for international service.
Enatel
included twenty automatic and thirty-six manual telephone
exchanges
and three telex centers. Eight of the eighteen provincial
capitals
had automatic local and interurban services; interurban
links were
provided by microwave and troposcatter systems.
International
Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat) links
were
provided via an earth station at Cacuaco. In December
1986, Angola
resumed contacts with Intersputnik, the Soviet-sponsored
international space telecommunications organization, and
planned to
incorporate the station at Cacuaco into the Intersputnik
system. To
ensure continuous international communications, in 1986
the
government announced plans to install a second earth
station at
Benguela.
Data as of February 1989
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