[Cameroon] SME Promotion Agency partners with MTN to link 20,000 SMEs to ICT

[Cameroon] SME Promotion Agency partners with MTN to link 20,000 SMEs to ICT

The Agence de promotion des PME (APME - SME Promotion Agency) in Cameroon and the local branch of mobile operator MTN International, have signed an agreement to support 20,000 Cameroonian SMEs in getting connected to ICT.

In practical terms, through this agreement, the leader in the mobile market in Cameroon will make available to the selected SMEs a package with among other products a website and its hosting, a domain name, a professional message service, monthly communication credit, etc.

In exchange for these services billed only $19 per month and per SME, APME will pay 50 per cent of the global expenditure. The objective being, as highlighted by Jean Marie Louis Badga, MD of APME, that “all the SMEs taking part in this programme become leaders in their respective sectors of activity, giving value for this productive Cameroon we all foresee”.

According to Philisiwe Sibiya, the Managing Director of MTN Cameroun, “in addition to the pack, the companies will benefit from products enabling a better financial, client or workforce management. They will also have access to a support team from MTN in the APME offices spread throughout the 10 regions of Cameroon”.

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