The company has achieved a net profit of over 13 billion FCFA, marking a progression compared to the profit of 12.7 billion FCFA recorded in 2024, validating the managerial consolidation policy implemented by the general management led by Judith Yah Sunday Achidi. The company's global turnover shows a similar dynamic, rising to 235 billion CFA francs (compared to 217 billion CFA francs in the previous period), illustrating the expansion of the entity's revenue, which was only 108 billion CFA francs in 2018.

The recovery of operational profitability stems from the digitization of payment circuits and a revamp of fixed commercial offers to curb the erosion of traditional landline telephony. The public operator is now relying on high-speed internet and enterprise connectivity via a 12,000-kilometer fiber optic network, supported by several coastal cable landing stations under public monopoly. The mobile telephony segment, however, remains modest in the face of competition from multinational firms Orange Cameroon and MTN Cameroon, which capture the majority of a mobile market valued at 631 billion CFA francs in revenue in 2024. The company's own brand, "Blue", remains lagging, limiting the state-owned company's ability to transform its national data transport infrastructure into highly lucrative retail market shares.

The major challenge now lies in translating accounting profitability into improved user experience, frequently altered by service interruptions. To address this, the company is executing a multi-year investment plan exceeding 145 billion CFA francs, initiated in 2021, to modernize its technical infrastructure. The effort is being deployed through the raising, during the 2026 fiscal year, of a syndicated financing of 44,884 billion CFA francs from the Commercial Bank Cameroon (CBC). The budget envelope finances the first phase of the "Mobile Network Expansion" program, aimed at densifying the coverage of 2G, 3G, and 4G networks in major urban centers, university towns, and rural industrial hubs.


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