 "LIBERALIZATION AT THE END OF THE LINE"
Of a situation of monopoly which still existed in 1994, the sector of Telecommunications is certainly the one where privatization generated the most spectacular results. The Télécel consortium, designated provisional beneficiary of the Cameroon Telecommunications company (Camtel) award, in charge of the national telephone network, aims at increasing the number of telephone subscribers from 97 000 to 200 000 in one year. The objectives of the consortium for the mobile phone subscribers amount to million people. Since 2000, two operators compete for the mobile phone market, MTN and Mobilis which realized in one year more than 200 billion CFA Francs of investments.
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With the granting of Mobile CAMTEL for the benefice of Southern African group MTN, the market of the mobile became really competing. Supported by its 65 000 subscribers, MTN intends to exceed the 45% of the share. " Our priority is to allow the communications in geographical areas which are deprived of it today", explains Dirk Smet, General manager of MTN Cameroon whose network covers today more than 30% of the territory. Vis-a-vis the modernization of this sector, " our mission is to provide the access to total, objective, fast and complete information ", explains Jacques Fame Ndongo, Minister for the Communication who considers the development of new communication and information technologies a new challenge. |
