Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Cameroon: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
Cameroon’s 2010 cybersecurity law repeats one retention period, ten years, in four provisions aimed at different kinds of operator, and punishes a manager who fails to conserve the data of two of them with imprisonment.
Law No. 2010/012 of 21 December 2010 on cybersecurity and cybercriminality obliges network operators and electronic communication service providers to conserve traffic connection data for ten years (s. 25), and operators of information systems to conserve connection and traffic data for ten years (s. 29). Content providers keep content for ten years (s. 46), and access and storage providers keep identification data on content contributors for ten years (s. 35).
Section 63 punishes the manager of a corporate body providing access or storage services who fails to conserve the data of sections 25 and 29 with one to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of CFA 40,000 to 4,000,000. Providers of cryptographic services must hand over decryption agreements on request (s. 58). Whether the law reaches a VPN operator is not established.
Law No. 2024/017 of 23 December 2024 on personal data protection repeals “all previous provisions repugnant hereto” (s. 75) without naming Law No. 2010/012, and leaves the processing of data relating to security and justice to separate instruments (s. 72). Whether it alters these retention periods is not established.
Under Law No. 2010/013 on electronic communications, article 72, after a serious event affecting State security the President may prescribe to operators and service providers any measure from restricting access to certain services to temporarily suspending electronic communications in all or part of the territory. Decree 2012/1638/PM (s. 16) obliges operators to comply with requests from judicial, administrative, military and police authorities, which may include blocking websites with illegal content.
Using electronic communications to act in contempt of race or religion carries two to five years or a fine of CFA 2,000,000 to 5,000,000, doubled where the aim is to stir up hatred (s. 77). Publishing information one cannot prove true carries six months to two years or a fine of CFA 5,000,000 to 10,000,000, doubled where the aim is to disturb public peace (s. 78). Suspended sentences are excluded (s. 89).
The Constitution’s preamble provides that the privacy of correspondence is inviolable and may not be intercepted unless the judiciary authorises it. Under the Criminal Procedure Code, telecommunications may be intercepted in investigations of crimes punishable by at least two years on the written authorisation of the Examining Magistrate; an order runs up to four months and may be renewed without limit while the investigation needs it (ss. 92(3), 245).
Personnel of operators and service providers are bound to secrecy on interception requests (s. 51 of Law 2010/012). The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Cameroon
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
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Devices10at once
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Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
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