The Cuban Telecommunications Company. S.A. (ETECSA) has a state monopoly on telecommunications services and goods. Art. 1 of Decree No. 321 grants the administrative concession to ETECSA, enabling it to provide public telecommunications services granted in the national territory in the modalities for the term and under the conditions established in the decree. This Decree updates Decree 275 of 2003 of the Council of Ministers, giving it a period of up to 2023 to continue controlling all telecommunications services.

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

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

Arts. 85-86 of Decree-Law No. 35 establish that telecommunication services have to be provided by state companies, therefore excluding foreign companies. Currently, the "Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A" (ETECSA) has full ownership of telecommunications services, including basic telephone services, signal conduction, data transmission, cellular land mobile telecommunications, virtual telephony, public telephone booths and stations, Internet access, trunked mobile radio communication, provision of applications in the Internet environment and subscription television.

The only internet provider company in Cuba is the state company "Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A." (ETECSA). According to Decree-Law No. 35 in its Title III - Art. 1, "The Cuban State is the owner of public telecommunications services and has the power to regulate, order, control and supervise the different telecommunications/ICT services and networks." ETECSA has been a monopoly since 2003 as the result of its merger with CUBACEL. At that time, the provision of fixed-line telephone operation services and mobile providers was unified. Since then, ETECSA has provided additional telecommunications services exclusively.

According to Art. 28.2, the nationality or residence status of directors is not limited to Cubans and does not require that at least some be Cuban. This is left up to the companies. However, Art. 28.1 requires that employees must be national or reside in the country.

According to Art. 5 of Decree No. 2014-460, foreign companies cannot be members of the Ivorian standardisation committee. Art. 4 provides that the Ivorian standardisation committee carries out activities relating to the development and approval of standards as well as the management of the national mark of conformity to standards.

Art. 88 of Ordinance 2012-293 provides that equipment intended to be connected to a telecommunications/ICT network open to the public and radio equipment must be assessed by the "Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications/TIC de Côte d'Ivoire" (ARTCI, Telecommunications/ICT Regulatory Authority of Côte d’Ivoire) for compliance with the essential requirements (defined as measures necessary to ensure the health and safety of persons, electromagnetic compatibility between telecommunications/ICT equipment and installations and, where appropriate, proper use of the radio frequency spectrum to avoid harmful interference to third parties).
Art. 89 states that ARTCI may instruct independent national or foreign standardisation bodies to draw up technical standards for the approval of equipment. The technical standards adopted by the ARTCI must be published in the Official Gazette, following their approval by an order of the Minister in charge of Telecommunications/ICT. In addition, Art. 92 establishes that the testing labouratories and bodies used by persons responsible for placing telecommunication/ICT equipment on the market in order to establish their conformity with the essential requirements must either be accredited by ARTCI, be recognised in Côte d'Ivoire under international agreements or be empowered in any other way by Ivorian law.
Art. 9 of Decree No. 2013-301 provides information about the necessary documents for the certification. Art 30 of Law No. 2013 - 866 confirms that certification documents from other accredited labs are accepted.

Decree No. 214-105 provides that the supply or importation of a cryptology means not exclusively ensuring authentication or integrity control functions, is subject to a prior declaration to the Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications/TIC de Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI, Telecommunications/ICT Regulatory Authority of Côte d’Ivoire). The service provider, who is subject to professional secrecy, or the person providing or importing a cryptology means, must make available to the ARTCI a description of the technical characteristics of this cryptology means (Art. 8). In addition, the use of cryptology means and services ensuring confidentiality functions is free only if they are based on secret codes managed by an organization approved by the ARTCI, and the Authority must ensure, by any means, that the secret codes are not contrary to public policy or do not undermine the interests of national defence or the internal or external security of the State (Art. 6). Besides, the use of the means and services of cryptology beyond 32 bits for confidentiality is subject to authorisation (Art. 7).

It is reported that the de minimis threshold, that is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, is USD 83, below the 200 USD threshold recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Ordinance No. 2012-293, relating to Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies, provides a comprehensive consumer protection framework that applies to online transactions.

Côte d'Ivoire has not signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

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