Death of Mr. Souleyman Zabré head of the Inspection and Spectrum Control department of ARCEP Burkina last Monday. This situation could slow down activities within ARCEP in the coming days.…
ARCEP-BURKINA
RURA –RWANDA: NEW REGULATION FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
Recall that the regulator had launched in 2019 a public consultation to this effect. The new regulation are not yet implemented but they are approved. The effective date will be communicated soon. Local Applicant: The local representative may be: – Registered Local or international manufacturers; – authorized importers and Distributors; – Licensed operators; – individuals or companies who wish to import ECE for their own use; and – Authorized registered representatives or agents of any of those parties may also…
MACRA-MALAWI: CALL FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION FOR A NEW REGULATION
The regulator has just launched a public consultation until July 31, 2020. After this step, the agency will proceed with the publication of the new regulation.…
MOZAMBIQUE
The regulatory body ARECOM (Autoridade Reguladora Das Comunicacoes De Mocambique ) becomes INCM (Instituto Nacional das Comunicaçoes de Moçambique). Note that is not the first change, in the past years the agency have changed INCM to ARECOM .…
GHANA – SAMPLE MANDATORY FOR TYPE APPROVAL PROCESS
NCA- National Communication Authority recently announced that the submission of samples is now mandatory in the approval process. Note that this is not a new provision. To this end, the client must complete a checklist before submitting an approval request to Ghana.…
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: IMPACT APPROVAL ACTIVITY
Covid -19 : Most of person in the agency have been positive to covid 19 test.The department in charge of type type approval is even closed for the time .…
CÔTE D’IVOIRE: CLOSING OF THE REGULATORY AGENCY
The processing of approval projects suspended from this day April 17, 2020 reported in an official note from the agency (ARTCI). Indeed, a case of coronavirus has been confirmed within the regulatory body. To this end, the ARTCI and AIGF (Ivorian Frequency Management Agency) have invited their agents to complete confinement for 14 days from Monday April 20 until May 3, 2020. Note that employees will work from home until further notice. This situation will impact type approval process because…
FLASH – NEWS – CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – NEW CEO
The new CEO of regulatory body, ARCEP is Mr. Bonaventure Benjamin PANZET SEBAS.…
FLASH – NEWS – CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – TYPE APPROVAL
Resumption of Type approval in the Central African Republic after a long moment of suspension of activities.…
COTE D’IVOIRE: ARTCI IS WORKING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW FREQUENCY BANDS FOR SRDs
Soon frequency bands will be used for SRDs In collaboration with AIGF (Agence Ivoirienne de Gestion des Fréquences), the Ivorian organ telecommunications regulatory plans vary Operations of SRDs in Côte d’Ivoire. For this, it has initiated negotiations with AIGF to expand the frequency bands. Indeed, these bands will unlock the SRDs that are not operational at present in Cote d’Ivoire. This is intended to facilitate the use of different categories of SRDs in the Ivorian market. As a reminder, our…