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Recent News |
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 Joint
ITU-CITEL Forum on Enabling and ICT business environment in the
Americas Region |
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 The
“Joint ITU-CITEL Forum on Enabling and ICT business environment in the
Americas Region”, followed by the Working Group on Private Sector (WGPS)
was held in Washington D.C, USA, on April, 21st 2008. This event
counted on the participation of 150 representatives from
Administrations and Regulatory Bodies, industries, service providers,
financial institutions and Regional and International Organizations.
The Opening ceremony was launched by the OAS Assistant
Secretary General - Ambassador Albert Ramdin, the Chair of the
Permanent Executive Committee of CITEL (COM/CITEL) Mr. Pedro Pablo
Quirós and the ITU/BDT Director - Mr. Sami Al-Basheer.
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Preparation
for the WTSA-08 |
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 The
ITU Regional Development Forum 2008: “Bridging the ICT standardization
gap in developing countries," and the WTSA-08 Preparatory Meeting for
the Americas region, which took place,
respectively, on May 19 and 20 and May 21 and 22, 2008, at the
headquarters of Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency of Brazil),
in Brasilia, Brazil, at the kind invitation of Anatel.On
May 23, 2008, was held the meeting of the Rapporteur Group of PCC.I/CITEL
that is preparing for WTSA-08.
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Important issues |
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Structure
of the Working Group for the preparation of CITEL
for WRC-11 |
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Preparations for WRC-11 will be made in accordance with CITEL
procedure for preparing and adopting inter-American proposals for
submission to a World Radiocommunication Conference.
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New
brazilian Non Ionizing Radiation (NIR) monitoring system |
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By Anatel
 Non
Ionizing Radiation Monitoring systems are employed as a part of
management risk information system used by national regulators in
order to promote conscious awareness on the subject and attenuate
people concerns on this matter. There are several systems available
from different manufactures to perform such measurements, being the
different choices based on the local demands and also the economical
and social conditions.
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Training |
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Fraud
inter-operators |
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By
Giovani
Mancilla, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
Through these mechanisms, the operators possibly
through unscrupulous workers may try to do fraud to a third operator,
that can be national or international, using the service and trying to
identify it as being used by others, blocking the access to networks
of third parties, asking for interconnection that is not needed or
that might be used in a fraudulent way by others.
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General
Packet Radio Service (GPRS) |
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By
Jorge Villalobos, Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería
“Julio Garavito”
Of all
the wireless models to use Internet, the
General Packet Radio Service
or
GRPS is the most popular with the mobile telephony
operators. It is designed for data and
offers the user a permanent and high capacity Internet connection.
GPRS is designed to be integrated with the
GSM network, to
provide access to Internet. The diagram in
the figure shows the architecture of a GSM network with GPRS
included.
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What's
happening in the region? |
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Colombia:
Has Plan to Be In Line with the Future |
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The National Information and
Communications Technologies Plan (PNTIC), “Colombia In Line With the
Future,” was launched today by Minister of Communications María del
Rosario Guerra as state policy for linkage of programs and actions for
implementation in the short, medium, and long term. The objective of
the plan is to ensure that all Colombians made efficient and
productive use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to
improve social inclusion and increase competitiveness. (Ministry
of Communications, 29 May 2008)
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Brazil:
April Shows the Most Cell Phone Activations |
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With 1.54% growth, cell phone
activations now number over 127 million
With 1,931,693 new cellular
telephony activations, April 2008 showed 1.54% growth. The number of
activations in April was 167.25% higher than the 722,799 subscriptions
recorded in the same month in 2007. It was also the most
subscriptions of the year and the second most activations in April in
the past ten years. In April 2005, 2,155,139 activations were
recorded. With these results, Brazil now has 127,742,756 Personal
Mobile Service (PMS) subscribers. Of total accesses, 103,278,048
(80.85%) are prepaid and 24,464,708 (19.15%) are postpaid.
(Anatel, 19 May 2008)
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Venezuela:
Persons with Disabilities Will Have Greater Access to Technologies |
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“One of the areas that the
Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology (MPPTI) may
promote to ensure that people with disabilities use information and
communication technologies is to provide physical conditions in areas
such as telecommunication centers for access by persons with
disabilities, and so that they can work without any difficulty,” said
Minister Socorro Hernández. (CONATEL, 16 May 2008)
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Chile:
Personal Data Legislation and Protection is Urgently Required |
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To coordinate actions
facilitating the investigation of possible personal data filtering via
the Internet, the Under Secretary of Telecommunications, Pablo Bello,
met with the head of the Cybercrime Investigation Squad, Jaime Jara,
after which the governmental authority emphasized the need to improve
current data protection legislation. (SUBTEL, 12 May 2008)
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Venezuela:
CONATEL Begins Public Bidding Process to Award U-U’ Frequency Blocs in
Part of the National Territory |
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By Administrative Directive No.
1208, of May 5, 2008, the National Telecommunication Commission
(CONATEL) ordered the launch of public bidding procedure No. 0030, to
award the frequency bloc 903-908 MHz paired with 948-953 MHz to
provide mobile telephony in the states of Amazonas, Anzoátegui, Apure,
Barinas, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Lara, Mérida, Monagas, Nueva Esparta,
Portuguesa, Sucre, Táchira, Trujillo, and Zulia. (CONATEL, 7 May 2008)
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Brazil:
Anatel Updates Telecommunication Services Indices |
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Last Wednesday, April 30, at its
478th Meeting, the Directing Council of the National Telecommunication
Agency (Anatel) adopted the updated weighting structure for
Telecommunication Service Index (IST) prices. The IST is an
indexation for fixed telephony and industrial dedicated line usage
license contracts. The methodology of the index, composed of a basket
representing operator costs, was developed by Anatel in partnership
with the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute (IBGE)
Foundation. (Anatel, 2 May 2008)
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