| Movitel | |
| Type: | S.A |
| Hq Location: | Av. Guerra Popular 1086, Maputo, Mozambique |
| Industry: | Telecommunications |
| Products: | GSM-related products Internet services |
| Owner: | Viettel Group |
| Num Employees: | 2,521 (October 2015) |
| Homepage: | movitel.co.mz |
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).
Movitel 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 optical fiber cable and 1,800 antennas that supported services in 2G and 3G.
2010 - Movitel wins competition as the third operator[1] in Mozambique;
2011 - Starts build its infrastructure across the country;
2012 - Launches officially its services;[2] [3] [4]
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[5] - 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.