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Electronic Bulletin Number 54 - December, 2008

 
 
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Happy Holidays!
Calendar of CITEL for 2009
Signaling Standards
Aspects of Power Line Communication (PLC) technology
How important are e-commerce and e-business?
What does IPv6 offer?
 
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Happy Holidays!

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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Calendar of CITEL for 2009
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
Signaling Standards
By Wayne Zeuch, Rapporteur of the Group of Standards Coordination
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
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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How important are e-commerce and e-business?
By Carola Jones, Universidad Blas Pascal

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)
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?
Brazil: Anatel Proposes Extending the Announcement Deadline for the Public Consultation on FST Contracts
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
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
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
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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