In October 2023, during the municipal elections, reports indicated that WhatsApp was blocked for most users across the country. Additionally, the website of the independent newspaper Ikweli was inaccessible for approximately one hour. One year later, between October 25 and November 14, authorities reportedly imposed a combination of curfew-style mobile internet shutdowns and targeted blocks of Facebook and WhatsApp.

One year after the country’s first recorded shutdown in October 2023, the government reportedly imposed at least six internet shutdowns between October and December 2024. In addition, the indicator "7.2.4 - 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 Mozambique for the year 2024. This corresponds to "The government shut down domestic access to the Internet several times this year."

According to Art. 13 of the Electronic Transactions Act, intermediary service providers must obtain a license to operate in Nigeria. The authorisation of the activities of intermediary service providers is the responsibility of the regulator. According to the glossary of the Act, an intermediary service provider is any person who, on behalf of another, sends, receives or stores data messages. They are those who provide access to or provide services from the network (access providers, content providers, application providers and hosting providers).
According to Art. 7.1 (q) of Decree No. 90/2020, entities intending to become online service providers in Mozambique have to apply for specific licenses, in addition to general licenses to conduct business (commercial license) and also seek approval from the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (INTIC) and the Mozambique National Institute for Communications (INCM).

It is reported that to pay for imports, Mozambican firms need to justify their payment to the Bank of Mozambique and obtain authorisation to make foreign payments. This is a common practice but can be lengthy and cause the importer to take more time to process payments.

According to the Decree No. 66/2018 (Art. 9-10), local certification is required for the Mozambique Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to certify the conformity of telecommunication and radio equipment. The Authority recognises the certification carried out by foreign certification authorities in accordance with the Mutual Recognition Agreements.

Mozambique lacks a comprehensive data protection law. However, there are some laws with data protection rules, such as Law No. 3/2017 of 09 January - Electronic Transactions Law and the African Union Convention on Cyber-Security and Personal Data Protection. Towards the end of 2019, Mozambique revised its Penal Code, introducing provisions related to the invasion of privacy.

Art. 65.1 of the Electronic Transactions Law requires the data processor to appoint someone responsible for compliance with the provisions related to electronic personal data protection. The data processor is defined as any public or private person, natural or legal, who electronically requests, collects, processes or stores personal information from or about a data subject.

A basic legal framework on intermediary liability for copyright infringement is absent in Mozambique's law and jurisprudence.

A basic legal framework on intermediary liability beyond copyright infringement is absent in Mozambique's law and jurisprudence.

It is reported that Mozambique does not mandate functional or accounting separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Fees Decree No. 68/2016 sets minimum capital requirements for obtaining a telecom licence, with the specific limits outlined in Annex II as follows:
- 70 million MZN for unified licences (approximately USD 1,090,000);
- 56 million to 86,000 MZN for telecommunications networks (approximately USD 877,000 to USD 1,300);
- 11.25 million to 43,000 MZN for telecommunications services (approximately USD 176,000 to USD 6,700);
- 34,000 to 113,000 MZN for the supply, installation, maintenance, import, distribution, and sale of telecommunications equipment (approximately USD 530 to USD 1,790);
- 25,000 to 55,000 MZN for numbering licences (approximately USD 390 to USD 860).

Mozambique has not appended the World Trade Organization (WTO) Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

It is reported that the Instituto Nacional das Comunicações de Moçambique (INCM), the executive authority for the supervision and administration of services in the telecommunications sector, is independent from the government in the decision-making process.

According to Art. 7 of the Telecommunications Network Security Regulation, personal data of the residents in Mozambican territory must be stored within the boundaries of national borders and governed by the jurisdiction of Mozambique. However, the network and public telecommunications service operators can store consumer data in the cloud outside of the territorial space, provided it ensures that the personal data storage is subject to the national jurisdiction and is made available to the authorities upon request.

Mozambique has not joined any free trade agreement committing to open transfers of cross-border data flows.