(Business in Cameroon) - Managing Director of the mobile service company, Orange Cameroon, Elisabeth Medou Badang has just announced in an interview with the government daily publication that the France Telecom subsidiary plans to invest close to 1.5 trillion FCFA over the next ten years on the development and operation of its telecom network in Cameroon.

“Our wish is to invest in ACE (Africa Coast to Europe) submarine cable which remains a means of optimising internet access. We will implement it as soon as the regulatory framework allows us to do so. The same goes for high speed mobile service,” stated the Orange Cameroon Managing Director, who also went on to reveal the major investment that the company plans to make in Cameroon.

However, Orange’s plans for fibre-optic ACE cables are being impeded by Cameroon’s legislation which, for the time being, grants exclusive fibre-optic rights to Camtel, the public telecom company. This is why, in addition to SAT3, the WACS (West Africa Cable System) brought to Cameroon by MTN, had to be sold to the State which then transferred it to Camtel.