(Ecofin Agency) - Passed during a ministerial council, the new draft bill on electronic communications which is about to be voted by the national assembly is not accepted by Senegal consumers organizations. Indeed, according to sixteen of those organizations, who expressed themselves during a press conference, article 27 of this law introduces the restriction of mobile telecommunications applications.  

This article prescribes that “the regulatory authority can authorize or enforce any data management measure it deems necessary to notably preserve competition in the electronic telecommunications sector and ensure the impartial treatment of similar services”.  

Such bill is a freedom-destroying law according to the consumers organizations which estimate, as Sinesaloum reports, that “it allows the post and telecommunications authority and operators the possibility to block, slow down, filter, tax or monitor access to WhatsApp and other online applications to preserve mobile telephony operators’ interests”.