THE ROLE OF TELCOR AT THE
ITU'S PROCESSES FOR
ASSESSING COMPLIANCE AND
INTEROPERABILITY TESTING
Ing. José Guillermo Valdivia Rojas
Director of Control and Supervision
TELCOR-Nicaragua
January, 2012
TELCOR-NICARAGUA
TELCOR is the regulator of telecommunications services in
Nicaragua
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It is a member of ITU since 1926
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Member of the regional organization COMTELCA
Among its functions is to guarantee the quality and
safety of all Nicaraguan telecommunications and to apply all
national and international agreements.
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BACKGROUND
Nicaragua does not implement any process
assessing compliance or interoperability testing.
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Many regulators in the region of the Americas are in
the same situation.
This situation results in a number of problems with
telecommunications systems
WHAT HAPPEND?
DUE TO LACK OF CONFORMITY TO STANDARDS OR
TO LACK OF INTEROPERABILITY OF EQUIPMENT OR
SERVICES. WE FIND THE FOLLOWING SITUATION.
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Terminals enter the market illegaly
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Questionable quality of network equipment
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The market is full of poor-quality of terminals equipment
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find interconection problems among diffent operators
WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS THAT
ARISE?
Hardware
• Software
• Partial non conformity for expected
functionalities
• Out of service
• Signaling
• Safety requirements
• Overhead configuration
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shorter equipment life
THE MAIN REASONS ARE:
No conformity to standards
• Poor interoperability equipment same
vendor
• Poor interoperability equipment different
vendor
• Poor interoperability same operator
• Poor interoperability different operator
• Inefficient application of the rules of
homologation
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THIS SITUATION HAS EFFECTS ON:
Cost increase due to the need to replace some existing
equipment or to buy additional equipment to solve
problems
• Negative impacts on customers
• Negative image with respect to competitors
• Limited or no access to required services
• Delay in restoring
• Impact on effectiveness of services for civil society and
emergency (for example public phones could not handle a
three-digit numbering, wich are the emergency numbers)
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OUR POSITION
Strongly support the program objectives of the
ITU in reference to Resolution 76 of WTSA-08,
which consist of:
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assist developing countries in capacity-building
and training opportunities in conformity and
interoperability testing;
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assist developing countries in establishing regional
or sub-regional centres suitable to perform
conformity and interoperability testing as
appropriate;
WHAT DO WE NEED?
•Implement
the provisions of the resolution 76 of the ITUT to increase the probability of interoperability between
different manufacturers, suppliers and operators.
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The implementation of certification laboratories
Need of developing countries to be assisted in deploying
testing facilities and in capacity building opportunities in
the regions
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ABOUT THE COUNCIL-09
We strongly support the provisions of Council 09
Creation of a conformance database
• Assist establishment of test facilities in developing
countries
• Creation of human resources capacity building
opportunities
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IN SUMMARY
We support all procedures that ITU-T is developing to carry
out excellent conformance and interoperability of
telecommunications systems.
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We believe that in developing countries should avoid these
problems, affecting both operators and end users and the
application of Resolution 76 of the ITU is a way to avoid many
problems if we apply it immediately.
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Compliance testing, interoperability and database are
indespensible tools to achieve our objectives.
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Thanks for your attention