Movitel, SA
Movitel is a mobile Telecommunication operator based in Mozambique, in Maputo. It has 12 subsidiaries distributed among 11 provinces, 127 district centers and more than 1,500 employees. The project is a partnership between the Vietnamese company Viettel and Mozambique's SPI ("Management and Investment"). Its operation began after winning a public tender in 2010 to operate as another mobile telecommunications company in the Mozambican market. The company started building its infrastructure in 2011, at first with a total of 12,500 kilometers long fiber optic and 1,800 antennas that supported services in 2G and 3G. Chronology. 2010 - Movitel  wins competition as the third operator in Mozambique; 2011 - Starts build its infrastructure across the country; 2012 - Launches officially its services; 2013 - Movitel receives the award for Competitive Strategy Leadership by the Company for Research and Consultancy Frost & Sullivan; 2014 - Movitel received the award for best operator in emerging countries; Movitel offers the INGC - National Institute of Disaster Management $200,000 to support the Chokwe district, devastated by the floods. 2015 - provides food baskets to the population of Zambézia devastated by floods, an estimated value of $200 000; It offers smart rooms to the Ministry of Education and Human  Development, composed of a set of 200 computers and 12 projectors. 2016 - Received President of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Trương Tấn Sang, using Video Conference system to make a meeting with all the Vietnamese who live in Mozambique.