Eto’o not network operator, regulator says

Cameroon’s telecoms regulator, Agence de Regulation des Telecommunications (ART), has clarified that the mobile company owned by footballer Samuel Eto’o is only authorised to resell wireless services and is not permitted to operate its own mobile network, ending speculation that the firm was set to become Cameroon’s third full mobile licensee. Africa Review cites ART’s general manager, Jean-Louis Beh Mengue, as saying that Eto’o Telecom has joined around 60 other licensees in the country that are authorised to resell telephone traffic for Cameroon’s existing mobile network operators under their own brands. ‘To the extent the activities of Eto’o Telecom are couched on the networks of mobile telephone concessionaires, it must be clarified that this would involve the reselling of telephone traffic and not the establishment or the exploitation of a new mobile telephone network,’ Beh Mengue said

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