Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Eritrea: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
Eritrea’s Penal Code of 2015 makes it an offence to intercept a private message without lawful authority and to intercept a computer function, and punishes publicly asserting false facts to disparage legislative, executive or judicial institutions with one to three years’ imprisonment.
The Penal Code of 2015 has two computer offences open to any person: unauthorised use of a computer, including interception, punishable by one to six months or a fine (art. 374), and the same against public or financial institutions, by three to five years (art. 375). Refworld’s index lists Communications Proclamation No. 102 of 1998 and 1998 regulations on networks and services. Whether a VPN operator is covered by either is not established.
The Penal Code punishes publicly asserting or disseminating fabricated or false facts, knowing them to be such, to disparage legislative, executive or judicial institutions (art. 154; one to three years). It punishes teaching or advocating force as a means of governmental change, or knowingly publishing writing that does (art. 122; three to five years), and publishing false or forbidden information on judicial proceedings (art. 173; one to six months or a fine).
Defamation, a false imputation to a third party that injures another’s honour or reputation, carries one to six months or a fine of 5,001 to 20,000 Nakfas and is prosecuted only on the victim’s charge (art. 301). A true imputation made solely to injure reputation carries up to one month or a fine. Insult touching a person’s impairment or ethnic, religious or racial background is separate (art. 302).
The Penal Code makes it an offence to intercept, open or interfere with a telephone call, letter, electronic message or other private communication without lawful authority, punishable by one to six months or a fine, on the victim’s charge (art. 298). Intercepting a computer function is also an offence (art. 374). The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Eritrea
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
Security
Usability
