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Visabeira is a Portugal-based international conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, construction, industry, tourism, real estate, and service industries. Headquartered in Viseu, Visabeira began its activity in 1980 within the telecommunications engineering sector.
Visabeira Group (Grupo Visabeira) has five sub-holdings (Telecommunications and Construction, Industry, Tourism, Real Estate and Services), and is present in several countries and various disciplines.
Visabeira Telecommunications and Construction (Visabeira Telecomunicações e Construção) operates in the telecommunications network engineering sector. Visabeira Telecomunicações e Construção, SGPS, SA offers aservices in areas within the civil construction and public works sector, including architectural and engineering design, technical assistance, construction, recovery, and building maintenance.
Visabeira Industry (Visabeira Indústria) offers products in kitchen furniture and stoneware, decorative stone extraction and processing, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, PVC and polyethylene pipes, and electrical and telephonic cables. Visabeira Industry owns plants in Portugal, Mozambique, Angola and the United Arab Emirates. Since 2009, Visabeira is the owner of the Vista Alegre porcelain company.
Visabeira Tourism (Visabeira Turismo) offers four and five-star hotel units; tourist resorts; congress, golf, horse-riding, leisure, well-being and entertainment centres; as well as restaurants, multifunction rooms, ice-skating rinks, swimming pools, gyms, tennis and squash courts, Spa and Health Club, recreation sites, and a travel agency.
Visabeira Real Estate (Visabeira Imobiliária) carries out projects for the high and medium-high real estate markets.
Visabeira Services (Visabeira Serviços) combines a wide range of specialised units in distinct sectors. In utilities, it operates in the areas of electricity, gas, roads, construction and infrastructure, as well as providing active maintenance, corporate multi-assistance, and household and asset management services. It operates in areas such as multisectorial and multinational trading, sales of material and equipment, management and consulting, as well as in the agricultural, forestry and environment sectors.
Visabeira is 50% partner with the respective national telecom company in TVCabo (Angola) and TVCabo (Moçambique) providing broadcasting and internet access over broadband cable networks in Angola and Mozambique, two former Portuguese colonies. Thru its minority participation in the capital of Portugal Telecom, Visabeira is also active in other telecommunications activities. [1]
Telecommunications in the Philippines are well-developed due to the presence of modern infrastructure facilities. The industry was deregulated in 1995 when President Fidel Ramos signed Republic Act 7925. This law opened the sector to more private players and improved the provision of telecom services are better and fairer rates, leading to the creation of many telecommunication service providers for mobile, fixed-line, Internet and other services.
Communications in Somalia encompasses the communications services and capacity of Somalia. Telecommunications, internet, radio, print, television and postal services in the nation are largely concentrated in the private sector. Several of the telecom firms have begun expanding their activities abroad. The federal government operates two official radio and television networks, which exist alongside a number of private and foreign stations. Print media in the country is also progressively giving way to news radio stations and online portals, as internet connectivity and access increases. In 2012, a National Communications Act was also approved by Cabinet members, and 2 October 2017, the president of Somalia Finally signed the National Communications Law, and became the official Law that regulated the ICT industry. Under that Law, National Communications Authority (NCA) of the federal Republic of Somalia has been established, with board of directors and a general manager. Somalia currently is ranked first in Africa for most affordable mobile data per gigabyte and 7th in the world.
The economy of Mozambique is $14.396 billion by gross domestic product as of 2018, and has developed since the end of the Mozambican Civil War (1977–1992). In 1987, the government embarked on a series of macroeconomic reforms, which were designed to stabilize the economy. These steps, combined with donor assistance and with political stability since the multi-party elections in 1994, have led to dramatic improvements in the country's growth rate. Inflation was brought to single digits during the late 1990s, although it returned to double digits in 2000–02. Fiscal reforms, including the introduction of a value-added tax and reform of the customs service, have improved the government's revenue collection abilities.
PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, also simply known as Telkom, is an Indonesian multinational telecommunications conglomerate. Telkom is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The government of Indonesia owns over half of Telkom's shares outstanding.
Altice Portugal is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Since June 2, 2015, the company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Altice Europe, a multinational cable and telecommunications company with a presence in France, Israel, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, French West Indies/Indian Ocean Area, the Dominican Republic, and Switzerland. The assets in Portugal were sold to Altice in 2015 per request of Oi SA to reduce debt. The African assets were mostly sold for the same reason. Portugal Telecom, SGPS SA was split in separate companies: PT Portugal and Pharol, which owns a 27,5% stake in Oi.
NOS, SGPS S.A. is a Portuguese telecommunications and media company who provides mobile and fixed telephony, cable television, satellite television and internet. The company resulted from the merger in 2013 of two of the country's major telecommunications companies: Zon Multimédia and Sonae's Optimus Telecommunications.
Dallah Al-Baraka Holding Company (DBHC), is a private multinational corporation based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The company has holdings throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Far East and Europe. The company is best classed as a conglomerate with investments including the financial, banking, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, transportation, and operations and maintenance sectors.
Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TDM) is a telecommunications and Internet service provider in Mozambique. Telecomunicações de Moçambique was created in 1981 following the termination of the Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones (PTT) government agency. In late 2002 TDM was transformed into a Limited Liability Company and was renamed Telecomunicações de Moçambique SARL.
Telecommunications Engineering is an engineering discipline centered on electrical and computer engineering which seeks to support and enhance telecommunication systems. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments. A telecommunication engineer is responsible for designing and overseeing the installation of telecommunications equipment and facilities, such as complex electronic switching systems, and other plain old telephone service facilities, optical fiber cabling, IP networks, and microwave transmission systems. Telecommunications engineering also overlaps with broadcast engineering.
Isabel dos Santos is an Angolan businesswoman, the eldest child of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the country as a dictator from 1979 to 2017. Once considered Africa's richest woman according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth exceeding US$2 billion, she was dropped from the magazine's list in January 2021 after the freezing of her assets in Angola, Portugal and the Netherlands. She owes $340 million to the Portuguese company PT Ventures.
Teixeira Duarte, S.A. is the company that leads a large conglomerate with more than 11,000 workers, present in 22 countries, in 6 activity sectors, achieving in 2019 a turnover of 877 million Euros.
Mota-Engil is a Portuguese group in the sectors of civil construction, public works, port operations, waste, water, and logistics. The chairman of the board of directors is António Mota and Gonçalo Moura Martins is the company's CEO. Jorge Coelho has led the group's Executive Committee from 2008 to 2013 and currently is a consultant in Mota-Engil's Strategic Advisory Council.
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Established in 1993, The Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, or LIAA in short, acts under the Ministry of Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia.
The Vasseti Group consists of multiple businesses in various fields, ranging from telecommunications to lifestyle concepts. As of 3 January 2011, the Vasseti Group began operations in its new corporate headquarters at Plaza Sentral, in close proximity with KL Sentral Station. This is also the same location as the Vasseti Concierge office on the ground floor which serves as Vasseti's front lines, providing information on anything and everything Vasseti-related.
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Grupo Opaia SA is a holding company operating under Angolan law based in Luanda, Angola, running projects in civil construction services, solar energy technology, drinking water systems, hotel service and tourism, agriculture, finance and more. It was founded by the Angolan Agostinho Kapaia, from Huambo, in 2002. From the year 2012 it began to be present on a national scale while it is planned to cover every province with its services. Most of the projects are yet in an early stage, but the companies Greenpower and NBASIT and the projects Meña of Opaia Water and Casa Feliz of Opaia Construction already got a lot of attention. For reasons of purchase, investment and international knowledge among others, there are offices abroad in Lisbon in Portugal, São Paulo in Brazil, Guangzhou in China, Miami in the US and the main office is in the own capital Luanda.
Zeinal Abedin Mohamed Bava, was chief executive officer of Oi until October 7, 2014, when he resigned.
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