Jean Pierre Biyiti-bi Essam unveiled his 2011 plan of action Friday while receiving New Year Wishes. Government during the ongoing fiscal year plans to set up 120 community telecommunication centres nationwide and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MINPOSTEL) is determined to take additional measures to step up telecommunications, at reduced cost.
MINPOSTEL boss, Jean Pierre Biyiti-bi Essam, reiterated the commitment to strive for excellence last Friday January 28, 2011 as he received best wishes for 2011 from his staff during a colourful and crowd-pulling ceremony on the campus of the Yaounde School of Posts and Telecommunications.
The traditional ceremony offered officials of the ministry the opportunity to jointly evaluate the path covered, especially during the year just gone by, and how they can improve to make the country a telecommunications hub within and without the Central African Sub-region.
Drawing the ministry’s balance sheet for 2011, MINPOSTEL’s Secretary General, Edouard Abbah, said strides were recorded especially with the national optical fibre and the Central African Backbone projects which, he said, greatly improved the quality of telecommunications. Control, he added, was also made in the use of mobile telephones with a call on users to register their numbers as well as order set in the use of air frequencies. The country’s postal services were also revived with the appointment of a new management team at CAMPOST and the bringing in of a French international postal company, SOFREPOST, to give technical boost to CAMPOST activities.
Mr Biyiti-bi Essam in his 2011 plan of action said nothing will be left to chance in consolidating the achievements and executing new projects. He stressed that while efforts will be pursued to continually improve CAMPOST services, setting up of the Postal Regulatory Board and finalising evaluation studies on the cost of public postal services, the ministry is also bracing up to receive additional mobile telephone companies that will not only engender constructive competition in the sector but could equally result in the cut of communication cost. Deserving workers were during the ceremony decorated with labour medals.
