Carlos Lugo Silva, commissioner of the Comisión Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) (Telecom regulator) Communications Session, explained to Convergencialatina the progress in the establishment process and the challenges facing the new entity, which covers telecommunications, postal and audiovisual media services .

The new Law of Modernization of the ICT sector entered into force on July 25. By virtue thereofs, from the Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) the work of recomposition of the new regulatory agenda began and some structural procedures were faced to make way for the transition. It is currently being made the link with the Autoridad Nacional de Televisión (ANTV) (National Television Authority) - which is already in the process of being winded up - and with the ICT Ministry, which will transfer to the CRC all issues related to the regulatory area.

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