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Argentina: SeCom allows fixed wireless Print E-mail
Thursday, 06 September 2007
SeCom, Argentina's telecommunications ministry, passed a resolution that allows fixed line operators Telecom Argentina and Telefonica de Argentina to offer fixed wireless service in rural areas.

Resolution 151 allows the operators to offer fixed wireless service in rural and suburban areas, charged at the same rate as fixed-line calls. According to SeCom, their goal is to ensure universal service.

The resolution only allows the operators to offer fixed wireless service in areas that were originally allotted to Telecom and Telefonica after the privatisation of state monopoly Entel. Entel was privatised in 1990. Telecom and Telefonica were the operators licensed to provide telephony services in the north and south of the country, respectively.

Another operator, Telmex, recently requested that SeCom grant it the spectrum required to offer CDMA450 fixed wireless service in 25 locations. CDMA450, WiMax and satellite are among the technologies Telecom and Telefonica may consider to offer fixed wireless service.

Source: Business News Americas - WDR/Intelecon Regulatory News.