| Amendment to the Electronic Communications Act in light of COVID-19 - 21/03/2020 |
| Slovakian Government |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Europe | Slovak Republic |
| New legislation attaches obligations to electric communications providers in the time of the pandemic that they have to freely exchange data of communicating parties. This new data processing is an attempt to help the health sector. |
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| Connecting People in the Time of Covid-19 - 20/03/2020 |
| European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| ETNO is sharing best practices to ensure strong connectivity for all and resilient emergency services, including: providing extended data packages to customers, supporting businesses with digital services to remote work, helping public authorities track the outbreak, steering e-learning platforms and activate online fundraising campaigns. |
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| European Commission's initiative on network congestion prevention - 20/03/2020 |
| European Commission |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| To prevent network congestion and to allow everyone the enjoyment of digital entertainment, the European Commission calls upon and met with the CEOs of streaming platforms, telecom operators and users to take action. Streaming platforms are encouraged to offer standard rather than high definition content, telecom operators should take mitigating measures to allow for continued traffic, and users s (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: traffic; data consumption |
| COVID-19: Let's get involved in the awareness campaign in national languages - 20/03/2020 |
| Government |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Benin (Republic of) |
| The government of Benin is inviting opinion leaders, political actors, public or private sector actors, influencers, artists, various specialists, students, association members, companies etc. to get involved in the fight against this virus and take part in the national awareness campaign. By downloading from their computer or smartphone the audio awareness spot in French or in national languages (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: accessibility; awareness; inclusivity; diversity |
| #OrangeCaresAboutYou: Orange Cameroon measures for the COVID-19 crisis - 20/03/2020 |
| Orange Cameroon |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Africa | Cameroon (Republic of) |
| In line with other operators, Orange Cameroon announced that a series of measures, including: free money transfers, water and electricity bill payments through Orange Money; free access to educational content for students; 30% price reduction on internet bundles; 50% discount on internet devices. |
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| Anatel has taken steps to keep Brazil connected during the COVID-19 crisis - 20/03/2020 |
| Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Brazil (Federative Republic of) |
| This initiative aims to guarantee the availability of telecommunications services to support the Internet demand for everybody. Anatel is interacting with all agents in the telecommunications sector, to help Brazil overcome this great challenge. Actions will consider: 1) Operators and Service providers will adopt action plans to guarantee telecommunication services to operate considering the inc (...) |
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