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Recent News |
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 Updating
of Honduran Telecommunications Law |
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By Presidential
Commission for the Modernization of the State of Honduras
The current telecommunications situation in Honduras and
especially the system of open competition that is to take effect soon
in Honduras, on December 25, 2004, call for a new legal framework
adapted to those circumstances.
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Citizen
Cyber Square project in Chile |
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By
Undersecretariat of Communications of Chile
From November 10, 2004, free Internet
access will be available from any point in Constitution Square
in Santiago de Chile via a Wi-Fi connection
launched by the Government in conjunction with private providers of
this technology.
more information
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Actions
to counter Internet child pornography |
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By Felix Castro,
Ministry of Communications of Colombia
The Ministry of Communications of Colombia is the leader in a very
strong campaign against Internet child pornography where participate
the judicial and control organisms, the police and the civil society.
more information
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Upcoming events |
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December
a month of great activity for CITEL |
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In two weeks, several meetings of great relevance
for CITEL future work will take place. On November 29
the meeting to organize the texts of the Blue Book on
"Telecommunications Policies for the Americas", which will
subsequently be presented during the COM/CITEL meeting
will be held. Following from November 30 to
December 3 will be held the XIV meeting of COM/CITEL where we will
have the opportunity to analyze strategies for the future of CITEL and
to establish its priorities and program of activities. Finally,
December 6 to 9, the IV meeting of PCC.II will consider, among others,
the preparation of WRC-07, use of the 450 MHz band, use of RLAN in the
5 GHz band, low power devices, the procedures to be used for
the authorization of Earth Stations on Board Vessels (ESV) and the
implementation aspects of regulations to facilitate the deployment of
satellite services.
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Important issues |
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Preparing
for WSIS-2005 in Tunis |
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By Roberto Blois, Deputy Secretary General, ITU
 Building on the
success of the first phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS), held in Geneva 10-12 December 2003, ITU and Tunisia
are leading global preparations for the second phase Summit which will
take place in Tunis, 16-18 November 2005.
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Training |
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Change
and Retraining: A Challenge for Human Resources in Today’s
Organizations |
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By
Mario Maniewicz, Head
Human Resources Development Division,
ITU/BDT
 The XIII
Regional ITU Symposium on Training and Human Resources for the
Americas Region took place in Santiago, Chile, on October 25-29, 2004.
The principal topic discussed at the meeting, which was organized
jointly by the ITU/BDT and Chile’s Undersecretariat for
Telecommunications, was: “Change and Retraining: A Challenge for Human
Resources in Today’s Organizations.”
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Postgraduate
courses in telecommunications |
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By Ruben Kustra, ITBA,
Argentina
The Instituto Tecnológico de
Buenos Aires (Technological Institute of Buenos Aires) (ITBA)
offers
postgraduate courses
in telecommunications in 2005. The Institute has been designated
as a CITEL-OAS regional training center and
an excellence node of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
more information |
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Seminar
on rate and cost analysis in telecommunications services |
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By Julian Mulia, Comisión
Federal de Telecomunicaciones, Mexico
One of the most important challenges facing regulatory bodies is
determining or verifying the costs of telecommunications services, in
which cost analysis proves to be extremely important. Regulatory
bodies use cost analysis to establish and approve prices for both
consumers and competitors in order to promote sound competition.
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What's
happening in the region? |
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COMTELCA:
Telecommunications Forum
of the Plan Puebla Panama |
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COMTELCA: The Telecommunications forum of
the Plan Puebla Panama “Mesoamerica
in the Age of the Electronic Communications”
will take place December 9 and 10 in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras. This forum will include analysis of : Information
Mesoamerican Society, Regional Sector of the Information and
Communication Technologies, Mesoamerican Agenda for Connectivity,
Knowledge and Intelligent Development. For more information please
contact the COMTELCA Secretary, Mr. Héctor Rodríguez: :
sec@comtelca.hn.
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Purchase
of the Digicel shares |
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CANTV-Venezuela:
Corporation
CANTV (NYSE:VNT) announced on November 5,
2004 that its Board has approved the Letter of Intention signed by
Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A (TIM), for the
purchase of 100% of the shares
of Corporación Digitel, C.A. (“Digitel”)
for a total value of US$ 450
millions.
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TecnoInternet
2004 |
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Chile:
This event congregated world re-known brands for information and
communication technologies. It was held October 27 to 29, 2004 in
Santiago de Chile and there were more than 10 thousand participants.
In the opening ceremony, the UnderSecretary, Mr. Nicolai, emphasized
in the advances of Chile in ICT and he indicated the value of the
business projects that are using new technologies in their profitable
and educational activities. Mr. Nicolai indicated that "Chile is
connecting and activities such as this are real points of union to
show that is possible to continue to grow in broadband and
connectivity".
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New
Associate Members of CITEL |
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BRAZIL:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. |
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On November 5, 2004, the
company Huawei Technologies
Co., Ltd. with venue in Brazil
became a new associate member of PCC.II.
Huawei Technologies specializes in the R&D, production and marketing
of telecoms equipment, providing customized network solutions in
mobile network, fixed network, optical network, service & software,
data communications network and terminals.
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