(Business in Cameroon) - In the government daily publication of July 4, 2014, the Managing Director of Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel), David Nkotto Emane, announced that “negotiations are quite advanced to make Cameroon the first African country to have a submarine cable connection to South America.” The managing director revealed that the Cameroonian government is currently working “to have a 5,900 km fibre-optic cable lain between Kribi (in the South) and Fortaleza in Brazil.”

The new submarine cable announced by Camtel will be the fourth to arrive in Cameroon after the WACS lain by the consortium of which MTN was a member. Its “operation is awaiting only the government’s go-ahead,” according to the Camtel managing director; the SAT3 that Camtel already runs, Main One (currently under construction) which will connect Cameroon and Nigeria; and ACE that the group is planning to take on.