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’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,...
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...
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...
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...
Abbas Mahamat Tolli, Governor of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC), has expressed concern over the poor application of rules governing Cameroon’s banking and financial system. This comes after the bank accounts of MTN Cameroon and its subsidiary MTN Mobile Money Corporation were frozen. The BEAC is a central bank that serves six central...
The freezing of its bank accounts, due to the legal dispute initiated by the Cameroonian billionaire Baba Danpullo, has impacted MTN Cameroon’s cash flow. The latter borrowed 91.5 billion FCFA in the first half of 2023, representing 98% of its operating expenses. According to data collected by “Investing in Cameroon”, MTN Cameroon borrowed 91.5 billion FCFA...
Last April, telecom consumers launched a campaign to boycott telecom operators MTN and Orange. They blamed the latter for the poor quality and high cost of their services. Cameroonian mobile operators have two months to adjust their respective tariffs for postpaid, prepaid subscriptions and promotional offers under penalty of sanctions. The order comes from Minette Libom Li...
Cameroon Telecoms (Camtel) will soon connect with Sudachad Telecom to break into the Chadian enterprise market. The two announced the plans yesterday at the culmination of a three-day working visit to Yaounde by a Sudachad group. Camtel’s head of international sales coordination and planning department, Justin Tala, stated that Camtel is targeting the enterprise segment...
Mobile operators have been instructed to modify off-net and on-net prices within two months as a result of protests earlier this year about the quality of telecom services in Cameroon. Yesterday, the minister of posts and telecommunications Minette Libom ordered price adjustments for postpaid, prepaid, and promotional offer subscriptions. Following complaints from customers about the...
