(Business in Cameroon) - According to statistics from the Telecoms Regulatory Agency (ART in French), the telephone sector in Cameroon had 16.8 million subscribers (out of a population of 22 million inhabitants) as at end September 2015, against 16.6 million in 2014. This development is mainly due to the increase in the mobile telephone penetration rate, which now reaches 80% against 71% in 2014, according to the telecoms regulatory authority.

The couple made of the South African operator MTN and the French group Orange continues to lay down the law on the mobile market and telephone market at large, with 93.8% of market shares for both. In detail, MTN grabs 57.04% of the market, against 36.8% for Orange.

The newest arrival on the market, Vietnamese operator Viettel which operates under the Nexttel brand, takes 4.66% of market share, a little over one year after launching its operations. At the tail end of this ranking established by ART is the historical operator, Camtel, sole landline telephone operator of the country, who commands 1.4% of the telephone market in Cameroon.

However, we learned from the telecoms authority's statistics, the number of subscribers to the public operator, who should soon make use of its mobile licence, now reaches 412,000 clients, after stagnating for a long time at 22,000.

BRM

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