In Burkina Faso, a protest mobilization against mobile phone prices was organized on Tuesday. For an hour, users were invited to put their phones in airplane mode to boycott mobile operators. Burkinabè consumer associations consider the mobile phone tariffs excessive for poor quality service.
For one hour, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., no connection, no unit refills or money transfers. The associations thus denounce tariffs, in particular for mobile Internet, deemed prohibitive. “The minute of a call costs around 90 CFA francs, a gigabyte is a little over 2,000 CFA francs, explains Adama Bayala, the president of the National Consumer Network of Faso. If you take Ghana, it’s 400 francs per gigabyte, and Mali with 500 francs, you are entitled to one hour’s call! »
Consumers are asking the Burkinabè regulatory authority to better control operators. They hope in particular, as was the case in Côte d’Ivoire, for intervention on tariffs.