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Mozambique grants third mobile license to Movitel

The Mozambican government has chosen Movitel as the recipient of the country’s third mobile license. Movitel, a unit of Vietnam’s Viettel, beat TMM of Portugal Telecom and the joint venture between Angola’s Unitel SA and Mozambique’s Energy Capital SA, with its $29m bid.

Opportunities and challenges

Opportunities and challenges

Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is still emerging from the after-effects of almost two decades of civil war that devastated its infrastructure and economy.