Camtel formalizes its partnership with Sotel Tchad

The Cameroon Telecommunications Company (Camtel) and the society of Telecommunications of Chad (Sotel Tchad), represented by their respective General Directors, David Nkotto Emane and Adam Abbas Ahmed, conducted on 19th February 2015 in Yaoundé, the signing of an agreement of technical and commercial cooperation.

Under the agreement which financial details were not disclosed, the Cameroonian side, on the basis of its experience in the field of the installation of optics fibre (with a network of more than 6,000 km of cables installed in Cameroon), will accompany Chadian teams in the process of extension of their own fiber network, which is currently only 750 kilometres long.

It will include the question of training and capacity-building, particularly in the area of contribution to home of the optical fiber and the establishment of an appropriate pricing system.

The agreement also defines the framework of the financial arrangements between the two parties, but these conditions were not disclosed.

Officially, it is explained that given that the requested volumes are not yet clearly identified, direct or indirect financial implications are not more clearly definable. However, Sotel Tchad should support the Cameroonian experts.

This partnership is a step in the project of Central Africa (Central Africa Backbone) optical fibre backbone, an ambitious programme supported by several donors, including the World Bank, and whose objective is to install the optical fiber in all of the countries of Central Africa.

"Today, Camtel is ready to position themselves at the heart of the CAB project. We are already connected at two international submarine cable (SAT-3 and Wacs), and hopefully complete with others very soon", said an official of Camtel.