YooMee Cameroon Shuts Down its YooMee Live service

0
1012
Share this

yoomeeInternet service provider, YooMee Cameroon, has shut down its YooMee Live service which was providing IM, Facebook, YouTube, e-mail and photo sharing at the authorisation of Microsoft Windows Live, the parent owner of the service.

In a statement, YooMee, said Microsoft will discontinue YooMee Live which the two firms launched after they reached an agreement in November 2011. YooMe is asking is asking users to download their data before it’s deactivated on June 27, 2014.

A subsidiary of YooMee Africa AG, YooMee Cameroon provides high speed wireless broadband internet in Cameroon and was launched in Cameroon in 2011.

YooMee also provides over 80,000 students at the University of Douala  to provide affordable WIFI dubbed YooMee WIFI CAMPUS.

In April, YooMee Africa Group  launched its operations in Côte d’Ivoire in Abidjan providing its latest global technology TD-LTE to individuals and businesses to give them faster Internet experience with more stability and better reliability.During the launch, Mr. Dov Bar-Gera, CEO of YooMee Africa Ltd. said, “I am very proud that the authorities of Côte d’Ivoire have issued to YooMee the necessary permissions and spectrum to build the first LTE network in the country. With this network, West Africa is leapfrogging into a new era of the Internet.”The firm provides a USB Key and Mobile WiFi, both dedicated for the mobile usage, and the desktop YooMee Box for the office or for home usage from US$ 100 up to US$ 160.

Share this
Previous articleCEO Weekends: Kenya Airways unveils Live Television broadcast service for its Aircraft
Next articleCEO Weekends: Ten More Huduma Centres to be Opened in July
Sam Wakoba
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba