Section 58: Any person who consciously transmits or sends out false or deceptive radio frequency
signals or distress calls shall be punished with imprisonment of from 6 (six) months to 1 (one) year
and a fine of from 5,000,000 to 50,000,000 francs.
Section 59: Any person who, without the authorization provided for by this law, uses a frequency or
a radio frequency installation to disturb the radio waves of an authorized service shall be punished
with imprisonment of from 1 (one) month to 1 (one) year and a fine of from 5,000,000 to
50,000,000 francs.
Section 60: Any person who consciously produces radio frequency transmissions using one of the call
signals of the international series that has been given to an authorized State or private station shall
be punished with imprisonment of from 3 (three) months to 1 (one) year and a fine of from
5,000,000 to 50,000,000 francs.
Section 61: Any person uses any means to willfully disrupt telecommunications shall be punished
with 2 (two) to 5 (five) years of imprisonment and a fine of from 5,000,000 to 50,000,000 CFA
francs.
Section 62: Any person who fraudulently removes one or more conductors while directly or indirectly
performing a telecommunications service shall be punished with imprisonment of from 1 (one) to 5
(five) years and a fine of from 5,000,000 to 250,000,000 francs.
Section 63: Any person who imports, manufactures or keeps for marketing purposes, distributes free
of charge or against payment, hooks up to a public network or advertises telecommunications
terminals and installations that have not been approved as provided in this law shall pay a fine of
from 5,000,000 to 50,000,000 francs.
Section 64: Any infringement of the provisions governing the rights of way referred to in Part IV of
this law shall be punishable with a fine of from 5,000,000 to 50,000,000 francs.
Section 65: Any person who, in the territorial waters or on the continental shelf adjoining
Cameroonian territory, voluntarily breaks or attempts to or actually causes damage to an underwater
cable such as would totally or partially disrupt telecommunications shall be punished with
imprisonment of 5 (five) years and a fine of from 25,000,000 to 50,000,000 francs without prejudice
to the compensation for damages which could be claimed by the plaintiff.
Section 66: Any person who, in the maritime zones referred to in Section 65 above through
clumsiness, carelessness, negligence or failure to abide by the regulations, ruptures or causes such
damage to an underwater cable as would totally or partially disrupt telecommunications and fails to
report it within twelve hours to the local authorities of the nearest Cameroonian port shall be
punished with imprisonment of from 1 (one) month to 1 (one) year, or a fine of from 25,000,000 to
50,000,000 or both, without prejudice to the compensation for damages which could be claimed by
the plaintiff.
Section 67: A member of the crew of a Cameroonian or foreign ship who causes damage to an
underwater cable in the territorial waters or on the continental shelf adjoining Cameroon shall be
tried by the Yaounde Court or by:
- the court in the next port of call of the ship carrying the offender;
- the court in the first Cameroonian port at which the vessel calls;
- the court whose territorial jurisdiction covers the maritime extension of the place where the offence
was committed.
Section 68: Without prejudice to the implementation of the provisions of the Customs Code, any
person who exports or imports a cryptologic appliance without authorization shall be punished with
imprisonment of from 1 (one) to 3 (three) months and a fine of from 5,000,000 to 250,000,000
francs, or with either of the two penalties.