By David Hartshorn, Global VSAT Forum
The global satellite communications sector, together with a growing number of international user groups, has launched a campaign to heighten awareness of a trend that may disrupt current and future access to satellite telecommunications, broadcasting and other critical services in the C-band frequency range.

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By José Costa, mib
The Permanent Consultative Committee II (Radiocommunications including Broadcasting, PCC.II  will hold a Seminar on Terrestrial Spectrum for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) on Monday, 16 April 2007, in San Salvador, El Salvador,  the day before the IX meeting of PCC.II.  This seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Mobile Industry Backing Terrestrial Spectrum for IMT, or mib for short (see http://standards.nortel.com/spectrum4IMT). 

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By Erasmo Rojas, 3G Americas
It was 1996 when Orange Caraibe in the French West Indies became the first operator to launch GSM commercial services in Latin America and the Caribbean and utilized the 900 MHz band.

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By Don Jansky, Rapporteur on GMPCS
After several years of debate and discussion, the Permanent Consultative Committee II on Radiocommunications including Broadcasting took the important step of adopting a Recommendation for use by member states which provides guidance on how Global Mobile Personal Communication systems can be made available quickly and efficiently in time of national emergency.

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By Carol Dolinkas, Coordinator Human Resources Development CITEL
The Member States at the XVIII meeting of the Permanent Executive Committee of CITEL, COM/CITEL, taking into account the priorities the priorities in Member State training needs, approved the following preliminar program of courses that will receive fellowships of CITEL for 2007.

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By Jorge Villalobos A., Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería
The traditional radio broadcasting technique uses a very narrow frequency band in transmission to obtain the best reception.  Reducing the bandwidth of the transmitted signal, using a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), enables the receiver to receive the signal easily.

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By Laura Saldanha, ANTEL-Uruguay
The new Triple Play networks have four identifiable levels:

• access
• aggregation
• edge, sometimes called distribution
• core

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Medellín City Hall. UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones, Orbitel, the Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Education, today launched Medellín, Digital City: a digital development project geared to education, enterprise, and government, which is expected to cost some 20 billion pesos.  (Ministry of Communications, 24 January 2007)

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As of January 15, 2007, Mr. Fernando Arguello Téllez, shall, by appointment of the Constitutional President of the Republic, replace Mr. Jorge Isidoro Nieto Menéndez as the new Chief Superintendent of Electricity and Telecommunications of El Salvador. (SITGET, 15 January 2007)
 

According to Edwin San Román, President of the Oversight Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (Osiptel), over the past five years the number of broadband Internet subscribers in Peru grew by over 2,000 percent, from 20,375 in 2001 to 460,000 at end-2006. (OSIPTEL, 10 January 2007)

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2006 was an important year for the Peruvian telecommunications market and its coverage, above all in the provinces. Fixed telephony penetration surpassed 9%, mobile telephony reached 30%, and broadband services expanded to nearly 2%, said the General Manager of DN Consultores, Carlos Huamán. (OSIPTEL, 8 January 2007)

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2000% growth in Anatel’s first nine years: With 2.67 million new subscribers, Brazil will have -- between end-2006 and early 2007, when the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) completes its first ten years – more than 100 million cell phones in active service. (ANATEL, 22 December 2006)

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On January 17, 2007 Alcatel-Lucent of Argentina became an associate member of PCC.I.

Formed from the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent combines two entities that share a common lineage that can be traced back to 1986, when Alcatel’s parent company, CGE (la Compagnie Générale d’Electricité), acquired ITT’s European telecom business.

Alcatel-Lucent is organized around five business groups and four geographic regions.  The Wireless, Wireline, Convergence groups, which make up the Carrier Business Group, are dedicated to serving the needs of the world's service providers.  The Enterprise Business Group focuses on meeting the needs of business customers.  The Services Business Group designs, deploys, manages and maintains networks worldwide.  The company's geographic regions are Europe and North, Europe and South, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

On January 1, 2007, the GSM Latin America of United States, became an associate member of PCC.I. GSMLA is already an associate member of PCC.II since 2004.

GSM Latin America was created in 1998, since then it has had the important job to promote and increase the GSM technology use in the region among operators and end-users, as well as to represent its members in front of other organizations related to the industry.

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Addressing the possible disruptions to C-band Satellite Services
Spectrum for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)
GSM in Latin America and the Caribbean: The First Decade
CITEL adopts recommendation on use of GMPCS in emergencies and relief operations
Preliminar program of CITEL fellowships for telecommunication courses in 2007
Spread spectrum
General architecture of multiservice networks