GSMA working with Chile on updating telecoms regulation
The GSMA has begun a working group in Chile that will develop a framework to help watchdog Subtel modernize telecommunications regulation, the GSMA's Latin America president Sebastian Cabello (pictured) told BNamericas.
Last year, the GSMA conducted similar work with Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, in each case looking at ways to level the competitive playing field to accommodate regulation in the context of the new over-the-top and internet players that have disrupted the industry.
These suggestions were then taken onboard when new legislation was introduced.
"The paradigm has changed, it's important to develop regulation adapted to deal with the future [of communications]," Cabello said.
"We're going to discuss spectrum, taxation, interoperability and how to meet judicial requirements," he said referring to recent cases in the US and the UK where the judiciary has requested that operators or equipment manufacturers supply and decrypt private data of users following terrorist attacks.
"Telecoms operators have legal departments in charge of meeting these requirements but in the world of internet many companies still don't. The existing regulation is very out of date and it's necessary to rethink and redo it."
Last month, Subtel set up an innovation and development unit designed to study and anticipate future telecom trends, discuss them publicly and adopt regulation accordingly.
Subtel's head Rodrigo Ramírez has said regulators must shake off the stigma of always arriving late to discussions about the future of telecommunications and start to anticipate them.
The official told BNamericas late last year that watchdogs need to understand the new business models of the digital economy and encourage them rather than try to build fences around them.
Cabello added: "Regulation has to be modular, based on objectives, and not restrictive, otherwise you can end up killing off innovative services that might emerge."
In the case of each country with which the GSMA works, the local industry identifies five key policy issues that are considered priorities. The Chile advocacy brief will be ready in three months.
In the case of Argentina, one of these policies was convergence, which Argentina has been late to adopt. Starting in 2018 regulator Enacom will allow telecoms operators to offer TV services for the first time and also introduce a single converged communications concession license for all services.
Other ongoing working groups at the moment include: one for wholesale agreements and roaming, chaired by Vivo Brasil and Antel Uruguay; and one focused on developing best practices for tackling security and fraud issues.
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