NICARAGUA AND ITS POSITION AT THE
ITU'S PROCESSES FOR ASSESSING
COMPLIANCE AND INTEROPERABILITY
TESTING
Ing. José Guillermo Valdivia Rojas
Director of Control and Supervision
TELCOR-Nicaragua
July, 06 2010
TELCOR-NICARAGUA
TELCOR is the regulator of telecommunications in
Nicaragua
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It is a member of ITU since 1929
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Member of the regional organization COMTELCA
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Among its functions is to guarantee the quality and
safety of all Nicaraguan telecommunications
BACKGROUND
Nicaragua does not implement any process for
assessing compliance, or interoperability testing, this
from a regulatory point of view and therefore this
results in a number of problems
PROBLEMS DUE TO LACK OF CONFORMITY TO
STANDARDS OR TO LACK OF INTEROPERABILITY OF
EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES
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Terminals enter the market illegaly
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Questionable quality of network equipment
The market is full of poor-quality of terminals
equipment
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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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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
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THIS SITUATION HAS EFFECTS ON:
Cost increase 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:
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;
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WHAT DO WE NEED?
Implement the provisions of the resolution 76 of the
ITU to increase the probability of interoperability
between different manufacturers, suppliers and
operators.
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The implementation of certification laboratories
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 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 and interoprabilidad and
database are indespensible tools to achieve our
objectives.
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Thanks for your attention