Guinea: the ARPT imposes a fine of one million dollars on Orange




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It is an unprecedented decision that the Regulatory Authority for Posts and Telecommunications (ARPT) of Guinea took this Thursday, July 21, 2022. The regulator imposed a symbolic fine of just over one million (1,000,000 USD ) US dollars, or 9.5 billion Guinean francs, to Orange Guinea for disruption of the telephone network between June 30 and July 1, 2022. The ARPT estimates that SMS services, Orange money, e-recharge, USSD notifications in particular remained unavailable for more than 30 hours. A situation that has caused significant inconvenience to many telephone network subscribers to whom