dec 9, 2018 - Cameroon: Nexttel operator claims "4.5 million customers"

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APA-Yaoundé (Cameroon) From our correspondent: Félix Cyriaque Ebolé Bola The mobile operator Nexttel claims a portfolio of "4.5 million customers" who "will have trusted" Cameroon in the second quarter of 2018.

This subsidiary of the Vietnamese group Viettel affirms, in a statement received Tuesday to APA, that since its entry on the national telecom market in September 2014, to be "today the first telephone operator in Cameroon, compared to other telecom operators who have invested and started on the market over long periods of time "and built a solid infrastructure" covering up to 90% of the population, of which 99.2% in urban areas ".

In 4 years of existence, Nexttel claims to have created jobs for nearly 100,000 Cameroon and employ 1000 people, 94% of whom are nationals.

This shiny picture, synonymous with marketing operation to the public, intervenes, note that, while a leadership war is currently raging between the Cameroonian and Vietnamese shareholders for the control of the company.

This battle is between the local billionaire Baba Danpullo, promoter of Bestinver Cameroon SA and shareholder up to 30% of Nexttel, and the majority shareholder Viettel Global Investment SA, the first city accusing, among others, opponents of unilateral management, refusal of the double signature principle as well as massive importation of Vietnam's labor force.

This belligerence, increasingly maintained by the local media, ended up out of hinges the representative of Viettel Global Investment in Cameroon, Do Manh Hung, who in a statement denounced "false information", conveyed by Baba Danpullo .

For the Vietnamese, the group has consistently committed to the interests of the host country, "by bringing to the country advanced technologies and expertise in telecommunications management, by creating jobs, while respecting Cameroonian laws and regulations ".

The proof, according to Do Manh Hung is that "among the 1000 employees working at Viettel Cameroun SA, Cameroonians represent 94% of the workforce and the management team is made up of 85% of Cameroonians", as well as "employees Vietnamese work side by side with their local colleagues and try to train and transfer technology to local employees. "

Until the end of December 2017, he argues, Viettel Global Investment SA has successfully invested FCFA 201 billion in its Cameroonian subsidiary in the form of investment capital and other types of commercial media, now becoming the third largest operator. local with nearly 5 million subscribers at the end of June 2018, behind the South African Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) and the French Orange.

Late last week the court of first instance of Yaounde, the capital of the country, issued an order introducing the concept of double signature in the managers of Nexttel.

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