In an interview given to newsducamer.com, Orange Cameroon's CEO, Elisabeth Medou Badang had expressed her view on the exclusive control given to the country's first telecom operator, Camtel over the management of the fiber optic cable. She asked for more transparency and more regulations on it gestion, and had made some propositions to create an environment which favors competition and innovations. In the interview, she said What I think is that fiber optic is essential. We're talking about data, debit so we need the fiber optics. We need this market to develop into a competitive environment that is clear, equitable and fair. What is the model? I want to say in response to this question that there are no fixed models. There are principles such as transparency, equitable access to this infrastructure that is essential. How can we ensure quality, equitable access to all actors, financial accessibility so that it does not become a breaker factor? These three principles are indispensable. Now we can reach them with a third party private company to handle that, which would not compete with the others. But there are also regulatory mechanisms that make it possible to get this, to put a watertightness between the retail activity and then this activity of making available infrastructure. It will be up to the state to choose the model that seems to be the most relevant. She's therefore the third to officially point out this case after the WorldBank and MTN Cameroon who had wished Camtel to withdraw from the management of the fiber optical cable in Cameroon. I'm totally for this, and I hope the government is going to listen to these complaints and take according measures. A telecom operator can not have exclusive control over the management of such a ressource. This rather create a state of conflict and tension between the existing telecom operators, as there may be no equitable distribution of the ressource or conflict over it distribution. Therefore, a managing authority must be created that'll ensure equitable and loyal access to this ressource thereby creating an environment which favors competition and innovation between all the existing telecom operators in the country which is greatly needed if the Cameroonian government really intends to pursue it revolution in the digital sector.
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