Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Ecuadorian regulator wants to have the regulation to define relevant markets in 2017

On that basis, it could establish the preponderant actors to take specific measures, according to what Ana Proaño, head of the Arcotel, to Convergencialatina. "The mobile market is not balanced," she said. The offer for a fourth mobile operator would be designed by mid-2017 and before that Virgin Mobile could be added, which was already qualified as an MVO. However, plans are still subject to presidential elections next February.

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.

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