| Vodacom supports Tanzania with free education platform, health awareness, free data, and more - 07/04/2020 |
| Vodacom Tanzania |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Africa | Tanzania |
| Both Vodacom Tanzania and the DRC are prioritizing network optimization for areas that need improvement as well as network resilience. Vodacom Tanzania continues to promote its free education platform for students. Through the Vodacom Tanzania Foundation, Vodacom is providing the Ministry of Health and ICT Departments with 10 Mobile Routers and bundles to assist them in their response efforts. Vo (...) |
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| First Report of Internet Traffic during Preventive Isolation - 07/04/2020 |
| Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Colombia |
| In compliance with the provisions of Decree 464 of 2020 and with the purpose of taking the necessary measures to avoid congestion of Internet traffic in Colombia during the State of Economic, Social and Ecological Emergency, the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) asked the most representative Internet access service operators to report information on the evolution of their traffic, from Ja (...) |
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| Instalación call center para llamadas por COVID-19 - 07/04/2020 |
| Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones (INDOTEL) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Dominican Rep. |
| El Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones (Indotel) y el Centro de Operaciones de Emergencias (COE), anunciaron la puesta en marcha de un call center de 25 estaciones para recibir llamadas de la población a través de la línea *462.El call center, ubicado en las instalaciones del COE, aumentará la capacidad de respuesta y permitirá hacer frente al gran flujo de llamadas por inquietudes de l (...) |
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| CONATEL and Telecommunication Operators guarantee in consensus, the continuity of services for all Hondurans - 07/04/2020 |
| Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Honduras |
| CONATEL and Honduran operators agreed not to suspend service to customers during the crisis to guarantee that the telecommunications and connectivity services prevail. Likewise, they agreed to provide basic packages free of charge to customers facing difficulties can stay connected as well as access to web portals established by the government. It was also agreed that these measures should not gen (...) |
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| Covid-19: Policy Briefings - 07/04/2020 |
| World Wide Web Foundation |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | United States |
| The Web Foundation has produced a set of policy briefs in response to COVID-19 to ensure the web/the Internet stays open and serves as a lifeline during this public emergency. The topics are misinformation, Internet access,and data rights. Misinformation: Conspiracy theories and misleading claims get in the way of official advice, undermine our response to the virus and can cost lives. Our recomm (...) |
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| Efforts of NTRA and MCIT to curb the spread of COVID-19 - 07/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the National Telecom Regulatory Authority |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Arab States | Egypt |
| NTRA agreed with the four telecom operators in Egypt, in coordination with the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), on granting 3,000 minutes and 10 gigabytes per month, for free, for all mobile networks, to all doctors, nurses, administrative personnel and staff working in the isolation hospitals for COVID-19 patients, nationwide. Operators were also instructed to unify working hours at stor (...) |
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