National Optical Fibre Operational in 18 Months

Posts and Telecommunications Minister, Jean Pierre Biyiti bi Essam laid the foundation stone in Kye-Ossi last Tuesday.The ten regions of Cameroon will from mid 2011 benefit from fast and probably easy telecommunication following the installation of a national optical fibre backbone, said to be a veritable facilitator of telecommunications. The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Jean Pierre Biyiti bi Essam laid the foundation stone for the 3200-Kilometres project in Kye-Ossi, Ntem Valley of the South Region on Tuesday December 22, 2009. Speaking during the ceremony, Mr Biyiti bi Essam said the project is timely, stating that government is leaving no stone unturned to surmount

challenges and effectively join the information and communication technology trend. He praised the Sino-Cameroon ties thanks to which the project will be realised. The executing firm, Huawei Technology, according to its President for West Africa, Xie Guohui, is ready to offer Cameroon the best optical fibre. The FCFA 38 billion project includes the designing and planning of the optical network aimed at bringing Cameroon into a dazzling technological breakthrough that allows it to provide complete and efficient telecommunications services nationwide as well as become an ICT hub in Central Africa. Cameroon and China on July 6, 2009 signed an agreement for the latter to loan the former with FCFA 26 billion, through Eximbank of China, for the realisation of the project. Upon completion, the country??s ten regions will be interconnected by network, universities, enterprises and companies, 72 localities and technical points will be connected to the network while there will be high internet bandwidth in 16 points. Successive speakers like the Chinese Ambassador to Cameroon, Huang Changquing, the General Manager of Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL), David Nkoto Emane and the elites of Kye-Ossi, through their spokesperson, Antoine Bikoro, General Manger of Chantier Naval, saw in the project a giant stride in easing communication as well as speeding up the socio-economic development of the country. Quoting the President of the Republic who on November 3, 2004 said, ??Our country needed generalised internet??, these officials said the project is a dream come true that will carry Cameroon completely into the information society. The ceremony also saw the inauguration of the Kye-Ossi Telecommunications centre that connects the locality to the rest of the country and world. Tuesday??s ceremony was attended among others by the Ministers of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Louis Paul Motaze and that of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo.
Godlove BAINKONG, CT

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