2023-04-18 18:09:59
The “airplane mode” is very useful to Burkinabè, even to those who do not take off from any airport. Evoking the strategies of unfaithful men, the artist Smarty sang, a few years ago: “I am in airplane mode, as soon as I set foot at home. “For other of his compatriots, this option rhymes with the expression of discontent…
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Internet in Africa: who owns the submarine cables connected to the continent
This weekend, the activist Alain Traoré, better known under the pseudonym “Alino Faso”, invited “all consumers to put their mobile phones mode avion” this Tuesday, April 18, between 11 a.m. and noon. This operation, dubbed “Almost Black Tuesday”, is a boycott campaign by the three telephone operators inspired by an equivalent social movement in neighboring Côte d’Ivoire.
2 000 F CFA per giga
Dissatisfied with the quality of telephone services, the management of top-up bonuses and the prices charged by operators, representatives of connected citizens were received on April 14 by the Electronic Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority ( Arcep). But the institution does not seem to have convinced, either by some of its explanations – the difficulties of a country without a seafront and attacked by terrorists – or from the point of view of the promises of regulation. Regulation largely compromised, in terms of tariffs, by the freedom to set prices, in accordance with the law on competition. Even if it mentions consultations with mobile telephone operators, Arcep can essentially control the technical quality of the telephone service et demand transparency in the presentation of commercial offers…
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In Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré decrees general mobilization
Consumer rights organizations support the movement, brandishing eloquent figures: for an internet connection, a giga would cost more than 2,000 CFA francs, compared to less than 400 francs in neighboring Ghana – admittedly coastal – and a little more than 1,000 francs in a Niger that is also landlocked and under attack.
Not only is life globally more and more expensive in Faso, but more and more Internet users are using the Internet as a medium for expression and a working tool. Many observers consider that the deposed regime of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré began to falter in November 2021, when it interrupted mobile internet for 96 hours following social unrest in the city of Kaya. The confused reactions of Internet users had demonstrated the importance of connection in the life of Burkinabè 2.0. And therefore the difficulty for them to deprive themselves of it, this Tuesday, during a hour…
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