TurkmenistanLaw on Communications, network and subscriber-information protection duties
Law of Turkmenistan No. 93-IV "On Communications" (Vedomosti Mejlisa Turkmenistana 2010, No. 1, art. 17; as last amended by Law No. 184-VII of 22 November 2025), arts. 18, 43
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In force since 12 March 2010.
A sector security regimes rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 19 September 2026.
What it requires
- This binds a communications operator, a role the LexLint activity vocabulary expresses as provides_telecom_services; it does not reach an app with no communications-operator licence.
- Implement technical and organizational methods to protect communication networks, telecommunications facilities, restricted-access information about the organization of communication networks, and information transmitted over those networks, and cooperate with law-enforcement bodies to protect communication facilities and structures from unauthorized access.
- Ensure the safekeeping of subscriber information obtained on contracting and about services rendered, including their duration, content, and routing, and protect that information during automated processing.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan, which under Art. 8 exercises state regulation and control over activity in the field of communications and licenses that activity, including cybersecurity licensing by its own terms; the Act names no penalty amount for a breach of arts. 18 or 43 specifically and points instead to liability under other Turkmenistan legislation.
Settledness
- As of
- 19 September 2026
- Open questions
- Does a Cabinet of Ministers resolution or other act implementing Article 8(1)(11)'s reference to licensing activity in the field of communications and cybersecurity set out technical requirements that give further content to Article 18(4)'s technical and organizational methods of protection?
What it reaches
Obligation class
Security
What this law does
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A communications operator (a category that under this Act may be a state entity or a legal or natural person) must implement technical and organizational methods to protect communication networks, telecommunications facilities, restricted-access information about the organization of communication networks, and information transmitted by those networks.
The operator must, together with law-enforcement bodies, protect communication facilities and structures from unauthorized access, and a developer building or reconstructing communication facilities must likewise provide for protection against unauthorized access. Separately, a communications operator must ensure and bear responsibility for the safekeeping of subscriber information obtained on contracting and about services rendered, including duration, content, and routing.
The operator must also protect that information during automated processing. The Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan exercises general regulatory and licensing authority over the sector, including, by its own Art. 8(1)(11), licensing of activity in the field of communications and cybersecurity, though no separate implementing act setting cybersecurity licensing requirements was located.
Neither Art. 18 nor Art. 43 states a fixed penalty; a violation carries liability under other Turkmenistan legislation the Act does not itself quantify.
When LexLint raises it
provides_telecom_services
Read the law
Official text, Mejlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan
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