Mobile telephony in Cameroon: the key figures that changed everything
Arriving timidly in 1999 in Cameroon, mobile telephony has made many advances, to the point of becoming an essential tool for everyday life. Key figures for mobile telephony in Cameroon:
• 1999, birth of the company Cameroon telecommunications Mobile (CAMTEL Mobile);
• 2000, Cameroon has 40,000 subscribers for 02 operators CAMTEL and MTN;
• 500.38 billion CFA francs the turnover of mobile telephony in Cameroon in 2020 according to the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ART);
• 46% contribution of the mobile telephony sector to Cameroon's tax revenue in 2020;
• Many manufacturers share the mobile terminal market: Nokia, Motorola, Huawei, Apple, Tecno, Sonyericsson, Samsung, Alcatel, Blackberry, etc. ;
• 95% of the territory is covered by mobile telephone networks;
• 90% of the Cameroonian population now uses a mobile phone, either to communicate, or to buy, or as a means of payment, which allows them to improve their quality of life (against 37% in 2000) ;
• 6% of GDP is the contribution of mobile telephony to the national economy;
• Mobile telephony has contributed to the creation of 10,000 direct jobs and nearly 20,000 indirect jobs (against 1.8% in 2015);
• 35 to 36%, Internet penetration rate in 2021;
• Today, the Cameroonian market is shared between 04 operators: CAMTEL, NEXTTEL, ORANGE and MTN who together claim more than 15 million subscribers or about 88% of Cameroonians subscribe to mobile telephony (0.67% in l 'year 2000);
• The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MINPOSTEL), opened on Monday May 17, 2021, the works marking the 20th anniversary of the advent of the mobile telephony sector in Cameroon, meeting called Cammob 20-20;
• Mobile telephony is a development lever for Cameroon by 2035;
