Digital outage in Algeria disconnected because of the ferry

2023-06-16 11:00:00

Reserved for subscribers

LETTER FROM ALGIERS. For the seventh consecutive year, Algeria has cut off certain Web networks to prevent leaks of baccalaureate subjects.

By our correspondent in Algiers, Adlene Meddi

As in previous years, the authorities have since Sunday carried out a general cut in the Internet connection during exam days and during test times.
© AFP

Published on 06/16/2023 at 11:00 a.m.

« QWho is going to reimburse me for the losses of the week? “, is alarmed this young VTC driver from Algiers in the face of 3G cuts and the impossibility for users to use transport applications during this week. bac exams.

As every year since 2016, the authorities have resorted to more or less targeted shutdowns of the Internet, 3G or social networks, to thwart, according to their discourse, attempts to cheat in the tests or the “fake news” which disturbs the 790,000 candidates.

Even if, in the official discourse, it is out of the question to cut off the Internet connection altogether, the fact remains that the blockages of 3G, social networks and certain messaging services widely used such as WhatsApp during exams (from 8 to 11 a.m. then…

I subscribe