Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Chad: 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.
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.
Chad’s Law 009/PR/2015 on cybersecurity and cybercrime requires operators of electronic communications services to keep connection and traffic data for ten years and to install traffic-monitoring mechanisms on their networks. The same law and Chad’s other statutes penalise online defamation, disclosure of defence secrets and praise of terrorism, with penalties running to ten years.
Article 57 of Law 009/PR/2015 (adopted 10 February 2015) obliges operators of electronic communications services to keep connection and traffic data for ten years and to install traffic-monitoring mechanisms on their networks, and the data may be accessed in judicial investigations. A 2019 review by CIPESA lists Law 014/PR/2014 on electronic communications, Law 007/PR/2015 on personal data and Law 008/PR/2015 on electronic transactions.
An ordinance of 2022 is reported to supplement the 2015 law, and a digital code has been in preparation since December 2025. Whether a VPN operator counts as an operator of electronic communications services under article 57 is not established.
Under article 105 of Law 009/PR/2015, spreading information, documents or data that must be kept secret in the interest of national defence carries five to ten years. Article 32 of the 2015 anti-terrorism law punishes public praise of terrorism or direct provocation with eight to ten years and a fine of 25 to 50 million CFA francs, doubled when committed through an online public communication service.
Article 114 of Law 014/PR/2014 punishes fraudulent use of a public electronic communications network for personal ends, or a fraudulent connection by any means to a private line, with one to five years and a fine of 10 to 200 million CFA francs.
Article 106 of Law 009/PR/2015 applies to public insult and defamation through a public electronic communication the same penalties as for press offences; articles 87 and 88 punish threats and insults made through a computer system. The 2010 press law sets fines of 10,000 to 500,000 CFA francs for defamation and no longer imposes prison for it.
Articles 142 to 144 of the Penal Code (Law 001/PR/2017) punish insulting members of the government, the National Assembly or the judiciary by words, writings, drawings or gestures with up to three years and a fine of up to 250,000 CFA francs.
In a 2017 report Amnesty International recorded that Chadian human-rights defenders and journalists said their phones had been tapped, and that private telecommunications companies acknowledged tapping and monitoring calls, saying the authorities justified it on national-security grounds. CIPESA observes that the law provides neither solid judicial supervision nor a way to challenge the lawfulness of such measures. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Chad
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.
More countries
Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage149countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$139.08yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
Security
Usability
What moved
Every row is the record’s own history[], filtered to U02_server_countries and P04_mandate_response; the whole log holds every field.
29 Aug 20261 changes
NordVPNResponse to a national logging mandateP04_mandate_response
not on the record changed to withdrew_physical