(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian Minister of Posts and Telecoms has come to the fore to denounce the continued existence of non-identified subscribers in the identification databases of all the mobile operators operating in Cameroon. This is, according to her, “of a serious nature”, she indicated in an official communiqué made public on 14^th June 2016.

Therefore, Minister Libom Li Likeng announces that all unidentified and activated mobile chips in Cameroon past 30^th June 2016 will be simply deactivated. This date corresponds to the deadline given by some mobile operators to their subscribers, to enable them rectify the situation.

We can recall that in April this year, the Telecoms regulatory body had already ordered the mobile operators in the country to systematically deactivate unidentified chips or those where the information on the identity of the owners are incorrect. Officially, over the 2014-2015 period, mobile operators in Cameroon had to suspend about 6 million mobile chips deemed “suspicious”.

The consecutive mobile user identification campaigns noted these past months in Cameroon come in a context marked by the terrorist attacks committed in Cameroon by the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram, attacks in which mobile telephones are sometimes used to activate the explosives carried by the kamikazes.

BRM