Cameroon Gyfty Optical Cable
Cameroon's incumbent telecom operator, Camtel, has announced the deployment of an additional 3,500 km of fiber optic cable starting in 2024. Speaking about the project last October 17 during the Yaoundé Digital Week, MD Judith Yah Sunday said it primarily targets rural areas. It placed 93rd out of 93 countries in the 2024 Fiber Development Index, released by the World Broadband Association (WBBA) and UK-based telecom research firm Omdia. Government has officially handed over to Cameroon Telecommunications, CAMTEL, a 78-strand fibre optic cable deployed overhead in the Southern Interconnected Grid, SIG, along the Yaounde-Boumnyebel-Edea-Kribi-Douala-Limbe-Nkongsamba-Bafousssam-Bamenda segment. MTN GlobalConnect and CAMTEL have joined forces to establish a strategic partnership that will see the commercialisation of four submarine cables in the West and Central sub-region of Africa.
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