Cameroon has identified ICT as a strategic priority as it executes its Vision 2035 long-term development plan. Speaking ahead of the country’s National Youth Day on 11 February, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Minette Libom Li Likeng said the number of internet and mobile users represents “non-negligible potential.” The Minister said Cameroon is on...
Pan-African technology firm ST Digital has established a Tier III datacentre in Douala, Cameroon, operational since end January 2021. The company, a Microsoft Cloud Solution provider with operations in Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon and Togo, says the new datacentre is the first Tier III resource in Central Africa to be owned by an independent player...
Cameroon authorities are on high alert following threats by separatists to sabotage telecommunications infrastructure and disrupt the Total African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2020 football tournament in Limbe, located in the restive English-speaking part of the country. In a memo sent to military chiefs in the region, a copy of which has been seen by ITWeb...
The launch of Blue, Camtel’s mobile network, seems to crystallize the tensions between the boss of the Cameroonian incumbent telecoms operator and her minister. In a memo signed on January 13, 2021 and addressed to the staff of Camtel, the incumbent telecoms operator in Cameroon, Judith Yah Sunday, the CEO of this public company, denounces...
Promised to be liquidated for more than two decades, Camtel, with its new mobile phone operating license, aims to relaunch itself on the Cameroonian market. The public operator is looking for authorized distributors in order to implement its new growth strategy. Thanks to its regularization obtained on March 12, 2020, Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel), the public telecommunications...
Gabon announces the completion of the extension of its national fiber optic network that will link it to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. This interconnection was carried out as part of the Central Africa Backbone project. The Gabonese Agency for Digital Infrastructures and Frequencies (Aninf) announced on Wednesday, November 18, the end of the extension works of...
Asked by the mobile telephone operators to settle the dispute between them and the Cameroonian State which would like to use the telephone credit for the payment of taxes on the phones, the Beac takes the opportunity to ban the use of these units as a payment instrument. This is the story of the watered sprinkler. While it had seized the Bank of Central...
Cameroon has retained the services of tech firm Cameroon Internet Exchange Point (CAMIX) to roll out internet exchange points across the country, beginning with its two largest cities – Yaounde and Douala. On 27 October 2020, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Minette Libom Li Likeng handed over an exploitation license to CAMIX executives, led...
Cameroon will add 5,000 km to its fiber optic network, increasing it to 25,000 km. The objective is to increase the internet penetration rate and, in so doing, increase the access of citizens, households and businesses to broadband. “ Over the next few years, the government aims to generalize broadband access for citizens, businesses and households, in particular...
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,...
