State-owned Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) has entered into an agreement with the country’s Ministry of Higher Education to increase internet speed at public universities, establish digital development centres and cement a communications network to link up the Ministry with academic institutions as part of a XAF1.05-billion project. According to the agreement, signed between Judith Yah Sunday,...
Cameroon lost about XAF 6-billion (circa US$10.8-million) to cybercrime in 2019, according to a new report released by the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC). The government agency, which is charged with securing the country’s cyberspace, said since 2018 it has received no fewer than 2,050 complaints related to phishing, identity theft, scamming,...
After a positive evaluation of the pilot phase from June 27 to July 1, 2020, the construction of the entire Congo – Cameroon optical fiber link was officially started on August 8. The work is carried out by China Communications Services International and Huawei. The fiber optic interconnection works from the Republic of Congo to Cameroon...
MTN Cameroon subsidiary Mobile Money Corporation has increased MTN MoMo capital from 50 million Francs CFA to 850 million Francs CFA, according to a legal notice made public on 14 July 2020. The increase in operating capital is in response to the need to meet up with banking regulations. According to Regulation R-2019/02 of the...
State-owned telecommunications company Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) has unveiled the Zamengoe Datacentre, a tier III datacentre located on the outskirts of the capital Yaounde and touted as the biggest in the Central African sub-region. Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) has unveiled the Zamengoe Datacentre. The datacentre is part of Cameroon’s National Broadband Network II Project and is located...
MTN Group has announced the appointment of new chief executive officers for two of its West African operations, MTN Cameroon and MTN Benin. According to a statement released to the media Stephen Blewett, the current CEO of MTN Benin, will take the helm at MTN Cameroon on 1 August 2020 when Uche Ofodile, the current...
MTN Group said on Thursday that it has named Stephen Blewett, the current CEO of its operation in Benin, to lead its larger business in Cameroon. Blewett, who is a former CEO of Altech Autopage Cellular, will take the helm in Cameroon on 1 August when Uche Ofodile, the current CEO of MTN Liberia, will become...
Hendrik Kasteel will remain Chief Executive Officer of MTN Cameroon – for now. Kasteel was scheduled to leave the company at the end of March 2020, but the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has delayed the process, according to a source within the company who spoke to ITWeb Africa on condition of anonymity. Cameroon has registered 1,832...
In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the mobile network service provider Orange has reduced prices of its products and services in Cameroon. At the time of going to print, Cameroon had registered 56 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, as of the 23rd of March 2020, according to Dr Manaouda Malachie, the country’s Minister of...
State-owned telco Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) has had its network infrastructure vandalised on several occasions, according to the company’s General Manager, Judith Yah Sunday. In an interview with Cameroon Tribune, Sunday said the criminal acts have significantly undermined huge investments made by the government of Cameroon. “We have effectively registered numerous cases of acts of vandalism...
