SECTOR 2 For their part, consumer organisations feel that the telecommunications policy should go still further, particularly with regard to the portability of telephone numbers, i.e. the possibility for a client to migrate from one operator to another keeping the same identifier and number. In short, the state and its subdivisions are challenged to ensure that competition between players is to the benefit of consumers in terms of lower prices and improved service quality. Moreover, some panellists think that the dynamism of the sector is largely due to the rapid evolution of technology and the responsiveness of professionals in the field. These points of view are contested by a large part of the panel which concedes that one may expatiate at length about the relevance and coherence of actions taken by the state, but that the existence, for years, of a sectoral policy cannot be denied, in fact since a famous seminar held from 3 to 5 June 1982, where reflection on the restructuration of the telecommunications sector was spearheaded. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 3.0 (2010:3.2; 2008:n/a; 2006:n/a) 2.12 Government does not use its power over the placement of advertisements as a means to interfere with editorial content. During these last three years, the government has indeed used its power of influence on its own structures – as well as on certain private sector enterprises – to try, in different ways, to impact on the editorial content of the media. One panellist recalls, in this regard, the explicit slogan adopted by the leaders of the presidential majority at a political meeting of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS, then in power), on 23 July 2011, for a boycott of the media accused of being overtly hostile to the regime. With regard to advertising from private sector or non-governmental enterprises, there do not seem to be any direct political instructions, according to a panellist, 98 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER SENEGAL 2013