Viettel Cameroon S.A.R.L. is using an IBM Smarter Computing solution to enable Cameroon's 3G infrastructure.

IBM continues its dynamic of expansion in Africa. With the Vietnamese Telecom Operator, the collaboration in Africa is on the good curve. First in Mozambique and now in Cameroon, IBM System x servers, Storwize storage systems and DB2 software will help provide advanced integrated mobile services to millions of new Cameroonian subscribers.

Connectikpeople may recall that, Last year, the government of Cameroon granted a new license allowing Viettel Cameroon
S.A.R.L to become the third mobile-phone operator to provide 2G and 3G services , and according to Pyramid Research, in Cameroon mobile phones currently are used mostly for voice calls and less for advanced data applications, due largely to infrastructure limitations.

Therefore, the introduction of integrated 3G data services has the potential to attract up to six million new subscribers by 2017.

Connnectikpeople has also observed that, under the agreement, Viettel Cameroon will provide the IT infrastructure for these new mobile services with capacity of handling approximately ten terabytes of data, and to managing the company's billing and CRM systems.

The solution consists of IBM System x3850, x3650 and BladeCenter HS23 servers, IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems, operating with Linux OS and using IBM DB2 software. Viettel Cameroon is working with local business partner SVTech to install the system.