Cameroon tipped as digital hub for Central Africa

Cameroon has been tipped by the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) as a country with the potential to serve as a digital hub for Central Africa. The Abuja-based CSEA is an independent non-profit research outfit founded by the Nigerian-American economist Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former managing director of operations at the...

MTN launches Chenosis platform in Cameroon

MTN Cameroon has officially launched Chenosis, a pan-African platform with a cross-industry API (Application Programming Interface) marketplace that allows developers, entrepreneurs, and enterprises to integrate into an expanding library of open APIs. Chenosis gives access to a diverse range of API goods and services in telecoms, health, government, finance, entertainment, and other industries. MTN launched...

IHS supports Cameroon with digital kiosks

IHS Cameroon has committed to build 10 digital kiosks in the restive English-speaking North West and South West regions of Cameroon by 2025, with five in each region. The initiative dubbed “Tower Kiosk by IHS Cameroon” was launched recently with the deployment of three of the 10 kiosks in the localities of Idenau, Santa and...

Orange Cameroon is having 21 new telecoms sites built by the Canadian NuRAN Wireless

Canadian company NuRAN Wireless, specializing in providing wireless infrastructure solutions for mobile and broadband, announced on January 30, 2024 the deployment of 21 additional sites, as well as capacity upgrades at five sites. This work is carried out on behalf of the mobile telephone operator Orange Cameroun. The deployment of these new infrastructures occurs in...

Cameroon: Camtel will launch a feasibility study for its future Blue Money service

For the moment, the Cameroonian public telecoms operator Camtel is allied with its competitors MTN and Orange to make payments for its bills and packages via mobile money. Camtel (Cameroon Telecommunications), historic telecoms operator in Cameroon, is moving towards the launch of ”Blue Money”, its mobile money service. The public company has launched an international call...

Cameroon readies to launch space programme

Cameroon’s intentions to launch a space programme have advanced following the selection of a consortium of technical consulting firms to conduct an in-depth technical feasibility study. The group, made up of consulting firms Euroconsult Intergc Sarl and Digiglobe, was recently hired by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to investigate the institutional and regulatory approach,...

Cameroon: Camtel announces the deployment of 3,500 km of additional optical fiber from 2024

The public company Camtel is the exclusive manager of Cameroon’s fiber optic infrastructure. The company’s network currently extends over 15,000 km. The incumbent operator Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) plans to install 3,500 km of additional optical fiber from 2024 across Cameroon, particularly in rural areas. The project was revealed by Judith Yah Sunday (photo, left), general director of...

Canadian telecoms infrastructure provider NuRAN Wireless obtains operating license in Cameroon

NuRAN continues its expansion strategy in Africa. The company aims to have 10,000 telecoms sites under contract on the continent in the coming years. It recently launched the process of obtaining a license in Madagascar. Canadian telecoms infrastructure provider NuRAN Wireless announced on Tuesday October 17 that it had obtained a Category 1 license in Cameroon. The resource...

Experts gather to discuss Cameroon’s digital development

Tech specialists from academia, government, and the private sector have been analysing Cameroon’s digital transformation process in order to find flaws and propose tailor-made remedies. Speaking at this week’s virtual Forum on Digital Transformation, Ebot Ebot Enaw, director general of the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies, stated that the government is eager to...

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