The company Mozambique Telecom S.A. (Tmcel) is embroiled in debt and as the situation worsens the unsustainability leaves no other solution but its privatization by an international company, according to the company's unionists.

The union members, representing the nearly 1,800 Tmcel workers, say they fear that the company will be placed in a privatization process, which in their view "could endanger the security and sovereignty of the country."

"They can even privatize this company, but it is dangerous because it can be acquired by a foreign company that can determine that the central server must be in its country of origin, and in that way easily be able to capture all the information of the Mozambican state," the unionists said.

And because Tmcel is the one that controls the entire communication system in the country, from simple phone calls to the supply of internet and television signal (open and closed), the group understands that the State must assume its role of owner and not give up in any way to avoid what has already happened with the privatization of Banco Austral to a Malaysian group that started to have access to all the information of the Mozambican clients from that point in Asia.

It is TmCel that has control of government communications, all national banking, air and sea navigation, meteorological services, television and radio broadcasting of all authorized channels in the country (national and international), among other means.

In total, TmCel has about one billion meticais in receivables from different clients, and much of this debt comes from the largest client, the state, which is also facing difficulties in honoring its commitments to the company, and hence this decay.