Desintox - West Africa: free roaming cheaper but not free

You said "free roaming"? The roaming of telephone calls in effect since 31 March within ECOWAS is in fact not gratuitous. In fact, it concerns only the reception of calls, up to 300 minutes per month. In addition, it is only effective in five of the seven countries that have committed to it. Which bill do you expect? Decryption.

What the regional agreement on mobile telephony in West Africa says

Gone are the extra billings for calls from one West African country to another? Yes and no. The Memorandum of Understanding signed on 28 November 2016 in Abidjan by telecom regulators in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Conakry, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone - to which was added Togo in January - provides for "free call reception for roaming users" and "billing of subscriber calls on the road at the local rate in the network of countries visited".

"The political objective is for every citizen of the ECOWAS to feel at home from the point of view of telecommunications, pay the same tariff wherever it is and do not have to suffer from telecommunication bills, The Senegalese presidency specializing in the matter.

The delegates of the member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met at the headquarters of the Investment and Investment Bank to examine the state of implementation of this protocol. Development in Lomé on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May. At stake, a draft Community telecommunications area, three months after the entry into force on 31 March of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by seven of the 15 members of the zone

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