Camtel and Mtn launch a new campaign for the identification of subscribers

The telecommunication networks in Cameroon, Camtel and MTN, have launched a campaign by sending messages to register their sim cards.

Meassages, calling on MTN subscribers to identify themselves, were published on social networks, in the newspapers and transmitted through SMS.

However, according to the daily Le Jour in its Wednesday, August 12, 2015 edition, some people who received these messages have not yet registered.

"I got the message from MTN Cameroon on my cell phone four days ago. But since then, I have not had time to go and align myself in an agency to register. I already did when the Minister of posts and telecommunications asked all mobile subscribers to identify themselves", a commercial officer told the reporter of the newspaper.

A marketing and communications student in Douala, approached by the newspaper, also acknowledged having received the messages. She preferred to wonder on the appropriateness of this new campaign. “Why identify every day? They will only have to suspend the line of all subscribers", she argued.

The campaign which had been launched ends August 12, 2015, according to an employee of the company. And yet, some subscribers say they did not receive notification messages, noted the journal.

The company indicated on its Facebook page that "all subscribers who received an SMS from MTN and has not complied with this new legal requirement no later than August 12, 2015 will be suspended from the MTN network. According to the newspaper, this campaign was launched "to counter the use of sim cards by members of the Islamist sect.”

Yesterday the national daily newspaper, Cameroon Tribune, reverberated a campaign for identification by the Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) since August 6, "for some users of both mobile and fixed telephony service available in the urban areas.”