According to Arts. 3 and 4 of the Decree 2012-527/PRN/MC/NTI, passive infrastructure sharing in the telecom sector is an obligation. When telecom operators plan to deploy their telecommunications networks or services to the public, they must prioritise any solution that involves the sharing of existing infrastructure.

Niger Telecoms is a fully state-owned telecommunications company created in 2016 by the merger of the two Nigerien state telecommunications companies, Sonitel (voice and internet via fixed telephony) and Sahelcom (voice and internet via mobile telephony).

Niger is not a signatory of the 1996 World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) nor the 2015 expansion (ITA II).

Art. 15 of Decree No. 2022-743/PR/P states that all candidates for contracts, regardless of the award procedure, must provide evidence of their legal, technical, economic, financial, social and environmental capacity in their tender documents. The social capacity is defined by Art. 19 as the proof of a commitment to recruit Nigerien or nationals from the West African Economic and Monetary Union or proof that 40% of the contract has been subcontracted to SMEs owned by Nigerien youth or women.

According to Art. 112 of Decree No. 2022-743/PR/P when awarding a contract, preference up to 15% of the amount of the tender may be given to:
- A tender submitted by a national or Community enterprise;
- Any supplier that offers products of national origin or from the West African Economic and Monetary Union;
- Any supplier that undertakes to subcontract part of the contract to national undertakings.
If there is no provision for preference in the tender documents, preference will not be applicable.
Beyond this 15% preference, an additional preference of 5% is granted to craftsmen and artisans legally established in the territory of the West African Economic and Monetary Union.
Finally, the contracting authority may include in their preliminary procurement plans a percentage of the contract to be awarded to small and medium-sized national enterprises in accordance with the procurement and award procedures set out in the Decree, provided that the contract is financed from their own resources.

Niger is not a party to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), nor does it have observer status.

Art. 39 of Law No. 2018-40 stipulates that in the case of a foreign investment in the form of a public-private partnership, 20% of the shares must be provided by nationals.

Nicaragua has adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Signatures.

According to Art. 10 of the Commercial Code, legal entities in Nicaragua (including entities with foreign national shareholders) must have a legal representative who must be either a Nicaraguan national or a foreign national residing in Nicaragua. In addition, according to Art. 9 of the Foreign Agents Law, foreign agents are required to register with the Nicaraguan Government and file reports on all funds and donations received from foreign entities and how they are used.
The law defines “foreign agents” as any person who performs or works as an agent, representative, employee, service provider or any other activity subject to the orders, requirements, instruction, direction, supervision, or control from a foreign entity or from an individual or legal entity whose activities are, directly or indirectly, supervised, directed, controlled, financed or subsidised, in whole or in part, by foreign individuals, Governments, capital, businesses or funds, directly or through a third party, be it an individual or legal entities. It is reported that legal experts have expressed concern that the law is written so broadly that the government could apply it to any entity.

The Consumer and Users' Rights Protection Law and its regulation provide a comprehensive framework for consumer protection that also applies to online transactions.

Nicaragua has not signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

Nicaragua has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

The indicator "6.2.4 - Government Internet shut down in practice" of the V-Dem Dataset, which measures whether the government has the technical capacity to actively make internet service cease, thus interrupting domestic access to the internet or whether the government has decided to do so, has a score of 2 in Nicaragua for the year 2023. This corresponds to "The government shut down domestic access to the Internet several times this year."