Government has officially handed over to Cameroon Telecommunications, CAMTEL, a 78-strand fibre optic cable deployed overhead in the Southern Interconnected Grid, SIG, along the Yaounde-Boumnyebel-Edea-Kribi-Douala-Limbe-Nkongsamba-Bafousssam-Bamenda segment. Cameroon's incumbent telecom operator, Camtel, has announced the deployment of an additional 3,500 km of fiber optic cable starting in 2024. Speaking about the project last October 17 during the Yaoundé Digital Week, MD Judith Yah Sunday said it primarily targets rural areas. Implementing this. The main items included in the program are track renewal and rehabilitation, and purchase of locomotives and rolling stock. While submarine communications cables are used to connect countries and continents to the Internet, terrestrial fibre optic cables are used to extend this connectivity to landlocked countries or to urban centers within a country. CAMRAIL, within the framework of a Public Private Partnership, has been the operator of the national railway network of Cameroon since January 19, 1999. The subsidiary of Africa Global Logistics which started its activities on April 1, 1999, was selected following a 3-year auction process. The infrastructure was symbolically.
