On Friday, August 19, Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé was on a “work and friendship” visit to Gabon. He announced that his country is in cooperation with Gabon to lower the local cost of Internet services that are considered exorbitant.

Togo has packages that are 25 times higher than the best rate in the Uemoa zone, i.e. 100% mobile data. This is what a comparative analysis of Arcep Togolais reveals. According to the Togolese president, “There is also strong collaboration, strong cooperation between the two regulatory authorities [Gabonese and Togolaise, ed.] to have much more effective telephone and internet services, but at a lower cost. It's because our prices are high in Lomé. But I think that by working with Arcep [the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts, Editor's Note] of Gabon, we will be inspired by how to put pressure on operators to ensure that consumers and users of telephony mobiles pay the right price.”

Published last February by the Togolese Electronic Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority, a comparative analysis of telephone operators' tariffs eacute; communications notifies that mobile data and voice phone plans in Togo are among the most expensive in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) zone.