Maputo, 14 Nov (AIM) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi expressed on Monday his concern at the growing number of cases of scamming and fraud using telecommunications networks, and called for improved mechanisms to combat this type of crime.
Nyusi, who was speaking in Maputo during the 20th anniversary gala of the mobile phone company Vodacom, called for “the strengthening of security and protection of telecommunications users in order to prevent cyber-attacks and the misuse of their data for purposes such as scams, kidnappings and other illicit financial actions.”
The President also stressed that the mobile phone operators must “Collaborate with the regulator in order to curb the abusive use of social networks that share false news against the privacy of users with obscure intentions and sometimes against the interests of the country where Vodacom operates”.
He also said that the government expects the three mobile phone companies existing in the country (Vodacom, TMCEL and Movitel) to avoid price collusion, given the oligopolistic nature of the telecommunications sector.
According to Nyusi, the country is counting on the expansion of mobile phone networks on the road to development.
“With the expansion of telecommunications services, we are witnessing a genuine technological revolution in the country, the positive impacts of which can be seen in banking, commerce, education, tourism, in other words, in the socio-economic development of the whole of Mozambique”, he claimed.
Nyusi also reiterated the government’s willingness to continue creating all the necessary conditions to facilitate and promote a favourable environment for investment and the development of the telecommunications market in Mozambique.
(AIM)
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