In 2013, mobile providers in Cameroon brought in 500 billion FCfa

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In 2013, mobile providers in Cameroon brought in 500 billion FCfa

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- Sunday, 12 October 2014 03:18

(Business in Cameroon) - Orange and MTN, the duopoly which controlled Cameroon’s mobile telephone market in 2013, made 500 billion FCFA in earnings. This was revealed in the Ministry of Postal Services and Telecommunication’s (Minipostel) statistics.

According to the same source, the mobile telephone sector employs 6,000 direct jobs and 300,000 indirect jobs as well as 617 billion FCFA in paid taxes to the Treasury Department of Cameroon in the last five years.

These figures should increase significantly in 2015, with the arrival on the market since September 18, of a 3^rd mobile provider, Viettel Cameroon which operates under the Nexttel brand, as well as the issuance on September 26, 2014, of the 4^th mobile permit to the telecommunications public operator, Camtel.

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