Angola Travel Guide - Communications

Country code: 244.

Coverage limited to Luanda and the surrounding area.

There are a few Internet cafes in Luanda.

Airmail between Europe and Angola takes five to 10 days. Surface mail between Europe and Angola takes at least two months. There is a fairly reliable internal service. Most correspondence is by telex.

Government-controlled media are predominant. Angola's only daily newspaper, Jornal de Angola, and the terrestrial TV service, TPA, are state-owned and carry little criticism of the government. The constitution provides for freedom of expression but the government does not always respect this and the few private media outlets are liable to harassment.

• Newspapers include national daily, government-controlled Jornal de Angola, weekly Angolense, Luanda-based private weekly Folha 8, and private weeklies A Capital, Actual and Agora.
• There are no English-language newspapers.

• State-run Televisao Popular de Angola (TPA) operates two channels.
• Pay-TV services are operated by Multichoice Angola, and include Brazilian and Portuguese channels.

• Private radio stations operate in the main cities but the state maintains a monopoly in radio broadcasting across much of the country.
• State-run Radio Nacional de Angola (RNA) operates Canal A, Radio 5, Radio Ngola Yetu, Radio FM Stereo and Radio Luanda; Radio Ecclesia is a Roman Catholic FM station; Luanda-Antena Comercial and Radio Morena (Benguela-based) are private stations.