Société Tunisienne d’informatique pour l’ingénierie (ST2i), Tunisian IT Engineering Company, has just been declared winner of a FCFA 839.7 million contract, to monitor the works of the third phase of the expansion of the fibre optic backbone project in Cameroon, official sources informed.

This Tunisian engineering firm won the contract as part of a group with CERT, another engineering firm with whom ST2i must work for a 24-month period, the government communiqué on the publication of the results of the call for tenders stressed.

The backbone project include creating a full coverage of Cameroon with the fibre optic, in order to improve communications in the country.

Through this project, the country has already been equipped with over 6,000 km of the telecom infrastructure.