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...
Cameroonian telecoms operator CamTel has received three licences from the Telecommunications Regulatory Board (ART), following a restructuring of the state-owned firm last year. ITWeb Africa reports that one of the concession agreements allows CamTel to operate a nationwide public GSM network. The firm’s fixed telecommunications network licence has been renewed, while a new licence for the establishment...
State-owned telco Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) is ready to fully deploy its first GSM network in a bid to secure more share of the market. Camtel has a grip on just under 3% of the local telecommunications market, and has been overtaken by competitors MTN Cameroon, Orange Cameroun and Viettel (Nexttel). The telco offers Mobile CT-Phone...
In 2020 and 2021 state-owned telecommunications operator Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) will focus on two key pillars of a broader strategy: consolidation and expanding market share. General Manager of Camtel Judith Yah Sunday Achidi said the strategy will centre on finances, customers, processes and human resources. The company, one of four mobile network service providers operating...
Minette Libom Li Likeng, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Postel) announced during the cabinet council, January 23 in Yaoundé, that Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel), the public telecoms operator in Cameroon, could transfer the activity of transport by optical fiber to a “ Production Unit in charge of the transport network ”. According to the Minister, this...
Gabon and Cameroon have signed, on 28 November 2019 in Libreville, a memorandum of understanding for the interconnection of their fiber-optic broadband telecommunications networks (CAB 4 and CAB 1 respectively) The document was targeted for Gabon by the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Rigobert Ikambouayat Ndeka, and for Cameroon, by Minister of Posts and...
