Cameroon Telecom: Government Announces Additional Digit In Telephone Numbers

Rita Akana

Cameroon Minister for Post and Telecommunications has said that telephone numbers in the country will move from 8 to 9 digits on the 21st of November 2014 at mid night. Jean Pierre Biyiti Bi Essam, one of the numerous Francophone Beti-Ewondo cabinet ministers in the Biya regime revealed during a press conference in Yaoundé last night that the change involves all four mobile telephone operators in the country namely: Camtel, Orange, MTN and Nexttel. It vital for this reporter to observe that the change is the third in Cameroon within the last 13 years. The first digital modification was in 2001 when it moved from 6 to 7 digits. The year 2007 recorded the second as the digits again were raised from 7 to 8.