Telecommunications experts to Echourouk: The current legislation is completely obsolete

Telecommunications experts have asserted that the batteries of laws that regulate the sector of posts and telecommunication issued in 2000 grew obsolete and inappropriate for the regulation of a sector open to private domestic and foreign operators, as result of a radical brought about by the liberalization of the sector since 12 years now.

• The IT and communication expert Younes Kerrar has indicated to Echourouk that the decision made by the authorities to entrust the same people with elaborating the new law issued in 2008, was the cause behind the failure to launch the project “ Electronic Algeria ” leaving the country lagging behind some neighboring countries.

• Kerrar has indicated that the current law is completely backward to the extent that some definitions have become completely irrelevant and some practices do not have any legal basis.

• The same law denies the right for the operators to invest in the sector or create joint ventures between them, he added.

• The expert has vehemently criticized the cacophony that prevails in the sector as well as the lethargy due to the intertwined prerogatives between the various authorities that supervise the sector.

• M Kerkar has indicated that the present legislation doesn’t clearly determine the role of the posts and telecommunications, the regulation authority and that one dedicated to the authority responsible for distributing the spectre.

• He has further asserted that the cause behind this chaotic situation is the reluctance of the authorities to forge ahead for the opening of the sector for a real competition, following the example of the Middle East and North African countries.