A fiber optic cable will be extended from the Angolan coastline to the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, the first of its kind between Africa and Latin America, according to business sources.
According to a statement from the Angola Cables company, the infrastructure, to be completed by February 2014, will be 6,165 kilometers in length and is expected to be operative by 2015.
The implementation of the so-called South Atlantic Cable System project will offer Angolan and African countries a new opportunity for their high bandwidth capacity telecommunications networks to link directly to South America, stated the note.
It also indicated that Angola Cables will implement another project in the same area to link Angola with North America.
Angola is developing a number of projects to expand mobile and fixed telephony in order to improve communications, especially in rural areas.
It is also facilitating the advancement of new information technologies through providing increased access for citizens to modern fiber optic networks.
The applied sciences transfers to Angola are welcome, and must be encouraged, as they provide not only technology, but knowledge, Telecommunications Minister José Carvalho da Rocha said recently.
Bank Employee Strike Totals 10 Thousand 882 Closed Offices in Brazil
The indefinite strike by bank employees marked its 14th day today with 10,882 offices and bank management centers closed throughout the 26 states of Brazil.
A 76.1 increase was reported in the strike adherence since its beginning on September 19th, when 6,145 bank offices did not open, said Alex do Livramento, leader of the Sao Paulo Union of Bank Employees.
“The intransigence of bankers is making employees more and more outraged,” said do Livramento, who said that bankers refuse to increase wages by 6.1 percent, equivalent to the losses caused by this year’s increase in inflation.
Besides ignoring other economic and social demands, the Bank Federation remains silent and has not responded to the letter sent to it last Friday by the General Strike Command, in which the willingness to negotiate a proposal that answers employees’ demands was repeated.
Do Livramento denounced the threats and pressure from bankers against strikers to force them to return to their work and stop the protest, with union members demanding an 11.93-percent wage increase, minimum salary increases, an end to layoffs, better working conditions and better profit sharing.
Via PL