(Business in Cameroon) - Investiraucameroun.com already announced on 30 January that, after 14 February, telecom operators holding “temporary permits” could be banned from operating in Cameroon, based on a communiqué from the Minister in charge of the sector, Minette Libom Li Likeng.

This 9 February, Investiraucameroun.com was able to get a copy of the list of operators formally notified by their supervising ministry. They are 22 in total. These are, among others, Créolink, Ringo Sarl, Northwave Sarl (Vodafone), Global Solutions Technologies, CFAO Technologies, Digitel Sarl, Decsite Africa Sarl, GTS Infotel, Green Tech, Avilyos, TNT Africa, Afrikanet Online, Matrix Telecom, Easynet SA, Seme Telecom, Sphere 3i, HTT Telecom, etc. Based on the request of Minette Libom Li Likeng all these operators and electronic communications service providers, holding temporary permits, must send to her department, latest by Tuesday 14 February 2017, the given deadline, copies of their permit applications submitted to the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency, to be formally issued operating licences.

This formal notification from the Minpostel is the logical follow-up to the one of her communiqués published in September 2016. “My department’s attention was brought to the fact that many operators in the telecommunications sector are operating in violation of the current regulation”, she pointed out. Before repeating: “I would like to remind all that, in compliance with the provisions in Articles 35 and 42 of the 14 July 2012 decree, setting the conditions to establish or operate networks and provide electronic communications services under the approval regime, the issuance of licences or any equivalent other permit, is the sole responsibility of the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications”.

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