After its competitor Orange, the telecom operator MTN is in the process of creating a payment institution dedicated to financial transactions via mobile in Cameroon. In an interview published Thursday, August 11 in the public-owned daily Cameroon Tribune , the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze, reveals: “ Orange Money Cameroon recently obtained its approval, and that of MTN Mobile Money...
The Cameroon Telecommunications Company (CAMTEL) has signed an agreement with the country’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Development to deploy broadband infrastructure and services The agreement, signed by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development Celestine Ketcha, will see newly constructed houses connected to the broadband services. Although neither the government nor the telco have...
Current CEO of MTN Rwanda, Mitwa Ng’ambi, has been appointed as the new CEO of MTN Cameroon effective 1 September 2022, as announced by the company’s Chairman Colin Mukete. Ng’ambi will take over from Stephen Blewett, who has led the telco’s operations in Cameroon since 1 August 2020. Blewett is leaving the MTN Group. The...
MTN Cameroon, in partnership with Huawei, has entered into a partnership with the country’s Rural Electrification Agency (AER) according to which it will deploy antennas and relay stations in rural regions. MTN Cameroon is already using AER-produced solar energy to power some of its pilot sites in the West and Littoral regions. The company plans...
Both countries have the ambition to improve the living conditions of their respective populations thanks to low-cost broadband which offers multiple economic and social opportunities. This is the commitment made when this project started in 2020. Congo and Cameroon are officially interconnected by fiber optics. The network that materializes this digital collaboration between the two States was...
The telecommunications networks of Cameroon and Central African Republic (CAR) will be interconnected via land-based fibre optic network infrastructure by January 2023. This follows an MoU signed this week in Yaounde between Cameroon’s Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Minette Libom Li Likeng and CAR’s Minister of Digital Economy, Posts and Telecommunications Justin Gourna Zacko. The...
Cameroon is not utilising its submarine fibre optic infrastructure to the maximum, according to research released by the World Bank. An excerpt from the World Bank Group’s country diagnostic report, Cameron Digital Economy Assessment, reads: “Cameroon’s international connectivity remains non-competitive despite the existence of multiple submarine cables, leading to unused capacity and limited international bandwidth per capita.”...
Shareholders of Viettel Cameroon SA have ended a long-drawn-out internal management tussle which has significantly stifled growth of the company. Viettel Cameroon SA operates under the brand name Nexttel. It is a joint venture between Viettel Global Investment Joint Stock Company (a subsidiary of Vietnam military telecommunications company – Viettel) and Bestcam, owned by Cameroonian...
Following research into two of Cameroon’s ten regions in 2020 and 2021, the country’s National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC) has found that the ICT penetration is below 14%. The body wants to address this through training and ICT infrastructure. ANTIC has organised a three-day capacity-building training session for officials from municipalities in the...
Cameroon’s government has made available high-speed internet connection to start-ups in the fast-growing tech ecosystem nicknamed Silicon Mountain in Buea, southwest of the country. Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Minette Libom Li Likeng made the donation on the sidelines of the third edition of the Cameroon ICT Innovation Week, hosted from 14-18 March 2022. In...
