Technologies for educational institutions and public services;
- to develop national and regional expertise in Telecommunications / ICT sector;
- to promote and increase the use of Telecommunications / ICT
organizations a minimum level of knowledge as well as a good training in the field;
Article 71 : It is established an independent Administrative Authority called Telecommunications / ICT
Regulatory
Authority of Ivory Coast, abbreviated ARTCI with a judicial personality and financial autonomy.
Article 72 : The ARTCI is in charge of providing the function of regulation of the State. For this reason, it
has as missions:
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- to encourage the development of Telecommunications / ICT at the national and regional level;
- to control competition in collaboration with the Authorities in charge of the regulation of
competition;
- to control the compliance with the obligations by the operators and suppliers services;
- to define and implement the rules in the field of interconnection and the sharing of
infrastructure;
- to deal with the applications for licensing, prepare and implement the procedures for the allocation
of licenses by call for tender;
- to prepare and update, in connection with the government departments concerned, the
regulations of the book of specifications relating to licenses;
- to deliver general licenses; to receive and process the declarations;
- to carry out the allocation of scarce resources, in particular the radio frequencies of which it is
and the numbering resources and the control of their conditions of use;
- to establish the indicators and the quality of services and performance for supply
of telecommunications / ICT services and control their conformity;
to deliver, control the approvals, to define the obligatory specifications and approve the terminal
equipment;
- to work out accountancy requirements and tariffs as regards interconnection tariff policy;