| COVID-19 Policy Brief: Internet Access and Affordability - 27/04/2020 |
| Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the Web Foundation |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | International |
| The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the Web Foundation recommend governments, companies and civil society take urgent actions to bring as many people online as possible during this global emergency. Governments must immediately implement policies to ensure everyone can connect to the Internet by removing barriers like consumer facing taxes and internet shutdowns, and dedicate available (...) |
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| Together we can beat COVID-19 - 27/04/2020 |
| Botswana Communication Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Botswana |
| The communications sector provides essential services required to enable the fight against Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic. The sector enables dissemination of critical public health information countrywide. The sector also provides online tools and platforms that enable continued, albeit restricted functioning of businesses as well as tracking of the extent and impact of the virus on the popula (...) |
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| Product certification process is simplified during COVID-19 crisis - 27/04/2020 |
| National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Brazil |
| Anatel is simplifying the Telecommunications Products Certification process in order to provide telecommunications services with the means necessary for their maintenance in this period of fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19). |
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| Operating companies will divide service payments into up to 12 installments, without interest - 27/04/2020 |
| Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Peru |
| The telecommunications service operating companies will divide up to 12 installments, and without interest, the debts that their subscribers have, coming from receipts issued in March of this year and the consumption made during the State of National Emergency. Each operator (Movistar, Claro, Entel, Bitel) will apply this in a different way. |
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| Fighting COVID-19 - 27/04/2020 |
| China Academy of Information and Communications Technology |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Asia & Pacific | China |
| CAICT updated information on COVID-19 crisis, including the Report on Data and Smart Applications for Epidemic Prevention and Control. |
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| Beeline and Tele2 subscribers have access to free outgoing calls to the help line for Russians abroad - 27/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Russian Federation |
| Outgoing calls for roaming hotline numbers to help Russian citizens abroad have become free for Beeline and Tele2 subscribers. The hotline is organized on the basis of the call center of the State Services portal by phone +7 (495) 249-75-77. Citizens of the Russian Federation who are abroad and are not able to return to Russia due to coronavirus infection can receive round-the-clock telephone con (...) |
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