The VIII Meeting of the Permanent Consultative Committee II, Radiocommunications including Broadcasting will be held in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, October 17 to 20, 2006.

The draft detailed agenda and calendar are attached to this notice, together with general information and registration forms for the meeting and the hotel.

There are several relevant subjects in the draft agenda of this meeting,  particularly we draw attention to:

• Preparation of CITEL for the WRC-07.

• Radio frequency identification devices (RFID).

• Broadband Power Line Communications (BPL).

• RLAN in 5 GHz on board aircraft.

• Refarming of 700 MHz band.

• Implementation of regulations providing for the deployment of satellite services.

• General guidelines for licensing global mobile personal communications system networks (GMPCS).

• Procedures to be followed for authorization of earth stations on board vessels (ESV).

• Harmful interferences by non authorized transmissions in satellite networks.

• Implementation of Digital Terrestrial TV.
   

The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), a specialized entity of the Organization of American States (OAS), and the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) will hold a Regional Dialogue on “Capabilities of Telecommunications for Disaster Relief” on October 31, 2006. Taking into account the importance of the subject, the World Bank through the Global Development Learning Network is sponsoring the event.

The event is intended to encourage an exchange of views among participants and improve the understanding of current activities and challenges to develop emergency telecommunications capabilities and services. This event may be followed by webcast. This is a unique opportunity to identify priorities and address areas essential to mobilizing the region to respond to the challenges of disaster relief.

Amb. Albert R. Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General of the OAS and Amb. Michael Gardner, Chairman of USTTI will open the event

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By Oscar Avellaneda, Chair, Working Group on Technology
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), started standardization as a replacement of the current IP version 4 (IPv4), described in RFC 791 (Standard), due to the depletion of the limited number of IPv4 addresses foreseen already in the 1990's. Up until present time, various techniques such as Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), Network Address Translation (NAT), and Multi Protocol Label switching (MPLS) have managed to delay this depletion. The IETF Internet next Generation (IPNG) working group developed IPv6, RFC 2460 (Draft Standard).

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By CONATEL-Venezuela
This document aims at describing the initiative implemented by the National Telecommunication Commission regarding the determination, through Providencia, of the referential value and the rules to be applied by said regulating entity, according to its powers, to set up the monthly fee the operator requesting interconnection should pay to the co-locating operator in terms of co-location in closed spaces.

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By the delegation of Ecuador to the IX meeting of PCC.I
In Ecuador, in compliance with the legal and regulatory basis, there exist two mechanisms through which the interconnection of telecommunication public networks is implemented.

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By Fernando Fontán, ANTEL-Uruguay
IPTV is television conveyed using the IP protocol, not necessarily Internet. Rather, it may be done through IP networks capable of providing service quality. Triple Play consists of using a single operator for three telecommunication services–telephone, Internet, and television for subscribers–and constitutes a “services package.”

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By Rubén Kustra, Technological Institute of Buenos Aires
For years there has been speculation regarding the limitations of telephone networks and, in particular, regarding the possibility of exceeding first 14.4 kbits/s, and then 28.8 kbits/s, by using copper pairs.

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By Colombian Association of Engineers
The first step, as explained when referring to the MPEG, is common to all DTV systems. This input block compresses and multiplexes the signals that the driver must process to modulate the transmitter.

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Lorenzo Villegas Carrasquilla, attorney and political scientist, has been named by María del Rosario Guerra de la Espriella, Minister of Communications, as the new Executive Director of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (CRT). (Ministry of Communications, 21 September 2006)

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Father’s Day’s month (August) surpassed Mother’s Day’s month (May), breaking the 2006 record for the number of new accesses in the mobile telephony segment.  The 1,858,216 new Personal Mobile Service (PMS) subscribers that month raised to 94,904,998 the total number of accesses in service in Brazil, making it possible that, over the next two months, the country will yet reach the 100 million-access mark in 2006.(ANATEL, 19 September 2006)

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María del Rosario Guerra de la Espriella, Minister of Communications, today reported that the Director of the Computers for Education Program, María Isabel Mejía Jaramillo, has been named the new Director of the Agenda for Connectivity, replacing Gustavo Gómez Uribe, who resigned. (Ministry of Communications, 15 September 2006)

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Under Secretary Bello: "Extension of fiber optics to the regions heightens the challenge of making the internet a basic service". During the launch of the Infrastructure for Competitiveness 2006-2010 initiative, announced on Thursday, September 14, 2006, by the President of the Republic, Pablo Bello, Under Secretary of Telecommunications, expressed appreciation for the President’s announcements in the areas of connectivity and universal access to the new technologies. The SUBTEL chief also attended the inauguration of the Fono-Familia 149 [Family-Phone 149] service, which, through an agreement between the Government and telephony companies, is provided free of charge nationwide. (SUBTEL, 14 September 2006)

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The Ministry of Communications has launched National Competitive Bidding No. 001 of 2006, which, to determine feasibility, will select from among bids submitted by organized communities, for the award of licenses to provide indirectly managed community Frequency Modulated (FM) sound broadcasting, with local coverage and municipality-restricted power. (Ministry of Communications, 14 September 2006)

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On September 4 was the launch of Public Consultation No. 734, making public the Draft General Regulations on Portability. These provisions, to be implemented in their entirety 18 months after coming into force, will allow users to change service providers–fixed or mobile–while retaining their telephone numbers. The document will remain open for contributions until October 23, 2006.(ANATEL, 4 September 2006)

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VIII Meeting of PCC.II
Regional dialogue on “Capabilities of telecommunications for disaster relief”
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Co-Location as an essential resource of interconnection. Referential value
Ecuador experiences in the application of the cost models applicable to the interconnection of telecommunication public networks
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Introduction to the positioning of broadband access systems
Introduction to Digital Terrestrial Television