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 Status
of the Fixed Satellite Service |
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By Don Jansly,
Coordinator of the Seminar
 A
one-day Seminar was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina on 15 September
2008 on the occasion of the meeting of CITEL PCC.II that addressed the
status of the Fixed-Satellite Service (FSS) industry. It dealt with
many aspects of the FSS including services and applications provided
via satellite, the results of WRC-07, satellite regulations, and
interference challenges experienced by users in the FSS.
more information
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Upcoming events |
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CITEL
at the World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly of the
International Telecommunication Union |
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 The
first meeting of the CITEL Rapporteur Group will be held on October 20
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly I+II meeting room, located on
the first floor of the Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa,
the venue for WTSA-08.
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Important issues |
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Harmful
interference location methods |
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By Alonso Picazo, Sub Working Group on
Harmful
Interference to Satellite Systems
 In
the process of identifying mainly unauthorized transmissions, the
following techniques or methods can be used: geolocation and
verification of transmissions, which are the most widely accepted and
valid for satellite operators to identify the source generating these
transmissions.
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Critical
telecommunication infrastructure protection in Brazil: application of
MI²C in scope Brazil |
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By
Regina Maria De Felice Souza,
Anatel; Sérgio Luís Ribeiro,CPqD; Christiane Maria da Silva Cuculo,
CPqD
 The
critical telecommunications infrastructure protection model - previous
presented in info@CITEL - is implemented by a set of five
methodologies. Although each methodology is responsible for a specific
part of the model, they are interdependent, since the output of one is
the input of another.
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Block
or generic licensing for earth stations in Guatemala |
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By
Marco Antonio Escalante,Superintendencia
de Telecomunicaciones
The regulations in force in Guatemala on satellite system
exploitation are contained in a Government Agreement complementing the
General Telecommunication Act. They entered into force on September
20, 1998. In the spirit of the General Telecommunication Act of
Guatemala, they are targeted towards market opening, with simple and
streamlined procedures for obtaining, swiftly and without complication,
licenses to operate satellite-related systems.
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Training |
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Determination
of the efficiency of the use of the network to distribute the costs
associated to it |
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By
Aldo Castagna,
Catholic
University of Uruguay
We will see an example of the efficiency on the
use of the national transmission network of a telecommunications
operator and how to distribute the costs associated to it. Let's
suppose that the network has a capacity equivalent to 2.000.000 km of
flows of 2 Mbps. Taking into account that the occupancy is variable
through the useful life, it is necessary to have an average occupancy
to calculate the unit cost.
more information |
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Scholarship
program of OAS/CITEL for the period October-December 2008 |
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By Carol Dolinkas,
General Coordinator, Human Resources Development
Please find below the the program of
scholarships of OAS/CITEL for
the period October December 2008. For more
information, please see the CITEL webpage or send a message to [email protected].
more information |
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What's
happening in the region? |
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Colombia:
Telecommunication sector earnings amounted to $10.8 billion in
the first semester of 2008 |
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During the first semester of
2008, the telecommunication sector continued to record steady growth.
During this period its earnings amounted to US$10.8 billion, a figure
that is 10% higher than the one obtained over the same period in 2007.
See Sector Report.
(Ministry of Communications, 30 September 2008)
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Venezuela:
Update of the list of brands and models of officially approved
equipment and devices and the web portal of the homologation section |
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The National Telecommunication
Commission (Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones—CONATEL) informs
operators, equipment manufacturers, and the general public that the
List of Brands and Models of Officially Approved Equipment and Devices
has been updated on the Commission’s official Internet portal for the
purpose of complying with the provisions of Article 8 of Resolution
No. 253, which contains the List of Foreign Entities or Organizations
Recommended for the Homologation and Certification of
Telecommunication Equipment published in Official Register No. 37,698
of May 27, 2003. (CONATEL, 29 September 2008)
more information |
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Colombia:
Compartel invests close to US$200 billion to take connectivity
to schools, courts and other public institutions |
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With a total submittal of 13
companies and 2,411 projects, public bidding process No. 003 of 2008
of the Compartel Program of the Ministry of Communications to provide
broadband connectivity to 7,625 government institutions, especially
schools, town councils, hospitals, and others, as of the first
semester of next year came to a close. (Ministry of
Communications, 26 September 2008)
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Colombia:
Computers to Educate go beyond goals for 2007 |
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A total of 28,608 computers have
been donated by the Computers to Educate Program to Colombian
educational institutions, thus surpassing the number of units provided
at December 31, 2007, which amounted to 27,857. (Ministry of
Communications, 19 September 2008)
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Brazil:
Providers receive 4,575 portability requests |
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The first five days of
implementation of portability in Brazil, ABR Telecom recorded 4,575
requests for change of provider but with the same phone number.
According to ABR Telecom, the administrative entity for numerical
portability, 458 phone numbers had been transferred from one operator
to another by 15:00 of September 5. (Anatel, 2 September 2008)
more information
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New
Associate Members of CITEL |
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Colombia:
TES AMERICA Andina |
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On
September 3, 2008 TES
AMERICA Andina
became an associate member of PCC.II.
TES AMERICA
Andina is a technology based company with principal headquarters in
Bogota, Colombia. It was funded in 1999 and has branches in Mexico,
Ecuador and Bolivia. As part of its structure it has a permanent area
of Research and Development which has allowed it to be recognized by
the sector as an innovation company and with “Know How” in the subject
of wireless communications, propagation and radioelectric spectrum
management. It has the organizational experience to assess the
spectrum in several countries of the region, and its mobile units have
travelled through them for the last nine years. This has allowed to
develop and implement with great success the technology to integrate
the different tools that these kind of services require.
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United
States of America:
CISCO
SYSTEMS INC. |
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On
September 3, 2008
CISCO SYSTEMS INC.
became an associate member of PCC.II.
Cisco is a leading global manufacturer of IP-based networking
equipment and software and is a provider of advanced services to our
worldwide base of customers. Products and solutions include routers,
switches and wireless systems including WLAN and WiMAX, as well as network
security technologies and a host of advanced technologies such as Telepresence,
data center, storage networking and Unified Communications. The
company is headquartered in California with facilities and sales
offices throughout the world.
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