Ana Proaño De la Torre was elected Executive Director of the Telecommunications Regulatory and Control Agency (Arcotel, for its Spanish acronym) in March this year, with the recently launched Organic Telecommunications Law (LOT, for its Spanish acronym) (it came into force on February 18) . As the official explained in an interview with Convergencialatina, this made the regulator act in two fundamental ways: on the one hand, face the entry of a fourth mobile operator, following a competitive public process (compared to the direct assignments of frequencies of previous years), As part of the measures to boost the mobile segment; and on the other, democratize the allocation of broadcasting frequencies.