Cameroon: Government requests statistics on information and communications

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Minpostel), Minette Libom Li Likeng, announced on 3 February in Yaoundé that her ministry recently requested a study to produce statistics in the telecoms and information and communications technologies sector (ICT).

“Reliable statistics would help decision-makers to knowingly choose the necessary and favourable investment for the development of this sector. This would allow monitoring over time and space the progress achieved, to identify possible costs in the sectorial policy”, explained the Minpostel. The statistical annual report thus produced, still according to the Minister, will provide information on over 168 factors. Being, landline and mobile telephone networks, large bandwidth subscriptions, landline and mobile traffic, internet, local mobile and landline tariffs, service quality, ICT infrastructure and access, security levels in information systems, etc.

“In practical terms, Mrs Libom Li Likeng specified, you use a radio, or a television, you have a laptop, you have an internet connection, you use a mobile telephone or a landline, this is the information to give to the investigators from the National Institute of Statistics”. The investigators were allotted a budget of FCfa 200 million to carry out this study and present their results for approval, before the end of June 2017.