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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

WTDC 2017

Enacom Argentina and Anatel Brazil negotiate new roaming agreements

The Argentine regulator met with representatives of Anatel Brazil where they discussed the possibility of signing an international roaming agreement at the next meeting of the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (Citel) to be held in February. "We have signed the agreements to move forward with the equipment for free roaming, not only in the 11 border cities, the idea is to extend it in the interior of the countries," said Miguel de Godoy, president of Enacom. The official commented that they also met with representatives of the Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico, to talk about spectrum, regulation, MVNO and users. In addition, they spoke with the FCC of the United States, where they ratified, with the new administration of the US regulator, the cooperation agreement signed last year. "Before the end of the year we will travel to Washington to continue the collaboration," De Godoy said.

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