Malawi: Ready, Steady, Spy Machine! Malawi to Roll Out Cirms in Jan 2016 - Macra

7 October 2015

The Consolidated (ICT) Regulatory Management System (CIRMS) -widely known as Spy Machine - that has for the past four years received some resistance from certain quarters including the country's phone operators will finally come into effect in January next year, Malawi's communications regulatory body has said after the High Court in Zomba vacated TNM's order that stopped the regulator from using it.

Malawi introduced CIRMS in 2011 but the system has received serious resistance that included court battles from operators who branded it "the spy machine".

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