Doing Business In Cameroon - Part II

DOING BUSINESS IN CAMEROON ON THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY

The telecommunications system in Cameroon leaves little (if anything) to be desired. Besides its telephone and facsimile network whose reliability cannot be stressed strongly enough, Cameroon was hooked up with the INTERNET in March 1997 thanks to the International Telecommunications Corporation (INTELCAM), the main link between Cameroon and the external world. This event put Cameroon on the fast lane of the information super highway. With this the country becomes part of the approximately 60 millions network of users present in 150 countries on 5 continents. Now, services such as e-mail, World Wide Web, File Transfer Protocol, etc., are available. Most especially, INTERNET by way of COMMERCE NET enables subscribers to buy, sell and otherwise exchange commercial information with the utmost speed. This can only go to enhance international trade and foreign investment in Cameroon, knowing that in the modern context