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Botswana Communication Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) is a government agency founded under the Communications Regulatory Authority Act, 2012 (CRA Act) on the 1st of April 2013. BOCRA is responsible for regulating all matters related to
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and cable), postal services of
Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...
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History

BOCRA was established in 2013 to replace
Botswana Telecommunications Authority Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) is a dissolved independent commission that was responsible for regulating all matters related to telecommunications (wire, cellular, satellite and cable), postal services of Botswana and has been succ ...
by the Government of
Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...
Parliament when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was amended and revised to create the ''Communications Regulatory Authority''.


Country code top level domain

During the formation of BOCRA, it was given to administer and manage the
.bw .bw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code ...
country TLD.


See also

* List of telecommunications regulatory bodies * List of Operators in Botswana *
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) traces to the British Empire's Pacific Cable Board in 1901, though in its current form, was created by international treaty, the ''Commonwealth Telegraphs Agreement'' between Commonwealth Nat ...


References


External links

* Government agencies of Botswana Communications authorities Telecommunications regulatory authorities {{Botswana-stub