Mozambique: Nyusi challenges telecommunications to strengthen fight against cyber crime

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Mozambique: Nyusi challenges telecommunications to strengthen fight against cyber crime

4:39 CAT | 20 May 2022

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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday challenged the telecommunications sector to mobilize all its stakeholders to ensure greater cyber security in order to protect infrastructures and their users.

Speaking in Maputo City, during the gala of the 10th anniversary celebration of Movitel, one of the three mobile operators in the country, Nyusi said that legal reforms, currently underway, will bring long-awaited solutions on cybercrime and illegal financial transactions “that tend to gain ground using the infrastructure and equipment of the telecommunications sector.”

Nyusi defended the need for continued expansion of mobile phone services throughout the country and the improvement of the quality of services provided, always taking into account cyber threats.

He also expressed his satisfaction at the level of coverage of the mobile phone signal at the district level, but warned “The gaps in network coverage, network outages and instability could represent a setback in our agenda of providing more and better mobile phone services.”

Nyusi quoted the results of a recent study, which says that the signal quality decreases with the transition from 3G to 4G technology.

According to Nyusi, the scheduled publication of the monitoring report should promote competitiveness among operators, so that they can improve their services and ensure the availability of information to subscribers so that they can make the best choice.

“We urge the INCM (Mozambique’s National Communications Institute) to continue playing its regulatory role, taking steps to ensure that the recommendations of the service quality monitoring report are observed”, he said.

Source: AIM