Orange's activities

France Telecom holds 99.5% of the capital of Orange Cameroon, which launched its GSM900 service in January 2000 under the Mobilis name. Since June 2002, Orange Cameroun has operated under the “Orange” brand.
Orange came in second on the mobile market with 43% market Share.
The main uses for mobiles in Cameroon are voice and SMS, although data uses are increasing. At end 2009, the mobile market had 2.8 million active customers, of which 99% were prepaid.
Orange Cameroun’s network covers 85% of the population, and it is continuing its extension and securitization plan.
At end 2009, Orange’s distribution network in Cameroon was made up of eight agencies in eight of the country’s ten provinces, 89 franchises, around fifty distributors, and over one hundred thousand retailers. After being launched in 2008, Internet activity increased sharply.
in 2009, both for WiMax and mobile Internet . Orange was named “best Internet service provider in Central Africa” in 2009 by African Telecom People.