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Happy Holidays! |
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Happy
Holidays! The CITEL Secretariat wishes you the best
of everything in this holiday season. This is a
great time to look back at the year gone by and also
to look ahead to a future of opportunity.
Year 2008 was full of remarkable
achievements for CITEL, where we can highlight:
submitting Inter-American Proposals to the
International Telecommunication Union’s World
Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA),
awarding nearly 200 scholarships for courses in its
telecommunication program, approval of
recommendations for coordinating effective standards
to ensure interoperability and timely introduction
of advanced technologies, spectrum harmonization,
interconnection of network issues, and economic
aspects of telecommunications.
May the joy of
the holidays renew our commitment to working
together to promote telecommunications, including
information and communications technologies
development in the region. |
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Upcoming events |
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Calendar of CITEL for 2009 |
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2009 will also be a year with multiple challenges
for the telecommunications community. Please find in
the link the main activities of our calendar. |
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Important issues |
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Signaling Standards
By Wayne Zeuch, Rapporteur of the Group of
Standards Coordination |
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ITU-T
Study Groups 11 and 16 have been actively working on
IP telephony signaling. SG 16 developed
Recommendation H.323 (Packet-based
Multimedia Communications Systems).
More recently, Study Group 11 has developed another
approach to supporting telephony over packet
networks: namely, that of introducing a core packet
network into existing circuit-switched networks. The
protocol developed for communicating between
telephone exchanges in this case is known as the
Bearer Independent Call Control (BICC) protocol. In
addition, SG 11 has also been working on SIP related
matters and Recommendation Q.1912.5 defines the
signaling interworking between BICC or ISUP
protocols and SIP with its associated Session
Description Protocol (SDP) at an Interworking Unit (IWU).
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Aspects of Power Line
Communication (PLC) technology
By Josefina Cano, Rapporteur of group on
Network Infrastructure |
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Currently, electric distribution
networks have greater coverage than telephone and
cable TV networks, reaching 95% of households. In
other words, through the PLC system most people will
have the possibility of connecting to the Internet.
Since the services of these other types of networks
are already available in offices and industries, the
markets expected to benefit most are residential
areas and small and middle-sized businesses. |
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Training |
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How important are
e-commerce and e-business?
By Carola Jones, Universidad Blas Pascal |
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Information and
communication technologies (ICTs) run through
business, affecting (determining, promoting,
conditioning) both the internal functioning of
organizations and their offers and relationships
with customers, suppliers and competitors. In view
of the countless complexities and uncertainties
involved in the business environment on Internet,
the designing and launching of electronic businesses
is an interesting challenge that must be tackled
from many dimensions and requires a broad range of
skills throughout the value chain. |
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What does IPv6 offer?
By Carlos Peña, Comisión Nacional de
Telecomunicaciones de Venezuela (CONATEL) |
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In the early
nineties, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
started developing the successor to IPv4. Various
parallel efforts were being made to resolve the
problem that was expected with regard to space
constraints and the functionality of the new
version. That is how the IETF started up the Next
Generation Internet Protocol (IPng) in 1993, which
was aimed at examining different proposals and
recommendations on procedures to be considered in
the future. |
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What's happening in the
region? |
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Brazil: Anatel Proposes Extending the
Announcement Deadline for the Public Consultation on
FST Contracts |
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At discussion
meeting 1.725, of December 10, 2008, the
Directing Council of the National Telecommunication
Agency (Anatel) decided to submit to the public for
comment a proposal to extend the announcement
deadline for the public consultation on the
establishment of new terms and conditions and new
targets for Fixed Switched Telephony
universalization and quality. In accordance with the
proposal, the consultation would be announced by
March 31, 2009. (Anatel, 11 December 2008) |
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Colombia:
Ministry of Communications Presents Digital
Territory Television Strategy
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Minister of
Communications María del Rosario Guerra will
introduce the Digital Territories Teleconference to
report on the development of a strategy to promote
the implementation of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) under agreements with the
country’s departments and municipalities.
Twenty-five digital territories are now operating in
Colombia, co-financed with Ministry resources
through the Communications Fund, with an investment
of approximately $22 billion. The teleconference
will be broadcast live from the auditorium of Radio
Televisión Nacional de Colombia (RTVC), on Monday,
December 15, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. (ministry
of Communications, 4 December 2008) |
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Brazil: Anatel Oversees Compliance with New
Service Center Rules |
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Until January 30,
2009, the National Telecommunication Agency (Anatel)
will effect an oversight operation to determine
compliance with Decree 6.523, of July 31, 2008,
which establishes general rules for telephone
customer service centers of providers of
federally-regulated services, with the aim of
safeguarding basic consumer rights. To that end,
Anatel is now working to ensure compliance with the
new rules, as is the Department of Consumer
Protection and Defense (DPDC) of the Ministry of
Justice, Procons, and other consumer defense
entities. The decree entered into force on December
1, 2008. Its purpose is to ensure that consumers can
obtain clear and sufficient information regarding
services contracted and to safeguard them against
unlawful or unethical practices in the provision of
such services. (Anatel, 4 December 2008) |
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Venezuela: Second Invitation to Participate in
the Forty-third Open Allocation Mechanism of the
Forty-second Universal Telecommunication Service
Obligation |
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The NATIONAL
TELECOMMUNICATION COMMISSION, in accordance with the
provisions of Article 52 of the Organic
Telecommunication Act, and Articles 37 and 38 of the
Regulations to the Organic Telecommunication Act on
Universal Telecommunication Service, has issued a
first invitation to general licensee operators to
participate in the Forty-third Open Allocation
Mechanism (0043-MAAOSUT) of the Forty-second
Universal Telecommunication Service Obligation
(42-OSUT), established in Administrative Ruling No.
1.321, of November 28, 2008, to guarantee Universal
Telecommunication Service nationwide.
In that connection,
interested operators are advised of the mandatory
requirement to obtain the Single List of General
Terms and Conditions, which will be available on
December 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, and 16,
2008, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at the following
address: Taquilla de Caja de la Comisión Nacional
de Telecomunicaciones, Avenida Veracruz, Edificio
CONATEL (Nueva Sede), Planta Baja, Urbanización Las
Mercedes, Caracas, Venezuela. (CONATEL, 1 December
2008) |
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