(Business in Cameroon) - The public telecommunications company, Camtel, has officially acquired the land entry point for the WACS fibre-optic cable built by MTN and later given to the State of Cameroon. This took place at a September 4, 2014 ceremony in Batoke, near Limbe, in the South-West, chaired by the Minister of Postal Services and Telecommunications, Jean Pierre Biyiti bib Essam.

Through the retrocession of this infrastructure, which signals the imminent start of service, the Minister of Postal Services and Telecommunications announced that he was hoping for not only an improvement in internet and phone services, but also cost reduction as well as the development of activities such as e-commerce, telemedicine and e-learning.

The WACS is the second submarine fibre-optic cable that Camtel manages after the SAT 3. It is 14,500 km and has a capacity of 5.2 TBPS for a wave length of 40 GBPS. The cable’s land entry point has been estimated by the Axxis firm to be over 2 billion FCFA.