Tuesday, October 27, 2015

WRC-15: The effort to allocate new bands to mobile services will not help if countries do not assign them

Convergencialatina spoke in the previous day at the beginning of the discussion of Futurecom 2015 with Oscar Leon, new Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL).

In a talk with Convegencialatina, Oscar León, new Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL), said the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to be held from 2 to 27 November at Geneva, will allow one to have more spectrum allocated to mobile services, "but if we see the reality that is happening in the countries of the region, the allocation -to Land Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)- remains very low, some countries allocate less than 200 MHz to cellular, thus although we continue talking about the issue in international agencies if there are no plans for spectrum in the countries of the region, the effort we are making will not make a difference."

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