OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE
Union labor discipline
Ordinance n ° 2012-293 of March 21 2012
relating to Telecommunications and
Information and Communication Technologies
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TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1: The hereby ordinance governs all the Telecommunications / ICT activities
to the territory of the Republic of Ivory Coast with the exception of:
- The establishment and operation of Telecommunications / ICT networks and services by the State
for the purpose of the national defense, the public safety and the aviation and off-shore safety;
- The facilities of the State using, for the purpose of the administration
agreement with the viewpoints and prescriptions of the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU);
- The regulation as regards audiovisual policy and content.
Article 2 : For the purpose of the hereby ordinance, the hereafter terms are defined as follows:
2.1 Access: provision provided by a Public Telecommunications / ICT operator or permitting to a
service provider to access to its resources and infrastructures.
2.2 Unpacked Access to the local loop:
the cable-controlled local loop. It does not involve any change in the ownership of the
local loop is concerned.
2.3 Shared Access to the local loop: providing local access to the cable-controlled
loop of a notification operator, in order to permit the beneficiary of this access to use
voice-frequencies of the frequency spectra available on the metallic twisted pair. The local
continue to be used by the operator
public.
2.4 Fully unpacked Access to the local loop: