The four day workshop that started last Wednesday 2nd November 2016 is a platform for telecommunication institutions to discuss the planning of frequencies for the 5th generation mobile telephoning and seek best ways to optimize spectrum capacity and foster broadband.

This meeting on Critical Information Infrastructures Protection organised by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in partnership with the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies,ANTIC and experts from the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organistaion-CTO is aimed at exchanging notes on best strategies to protect Cameroon's cyber space.

Opening the forum, Cameroon’s Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Minette Libom Li Likeng spoke of the need for the rational management of spectrum which is an essential tool in telecommunications.

MINPOSTEL boss also proposed that national regulatory bodies must continue to ensure transparency and equity in frequency broadband allocation.

The Secretary General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisations-CTO, Shola Taylor on his part pledged the organisation’s readiness to support Cameroon's administration in elaborating its national cyber security policy.

At the end of the meeting, it is expected that the participants must have come up with concrete measures to manage spectrum and that will render cyber spheres of participating countries safer.