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XXI Meeting of COM/CITEL will be held in Washington, DC, USA from December 7 to 9, 2009
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Licensing procedures and authorizations for VSAT stations
In recent years the Member States
of CITEL have expanded the utilization of systems using VSAT-type
terminals, and the development of systems using VSAT-type terminals is an
integral part of various development programs in the countries of the
region. The VSAT systems increasingly support important services in the
Americas such as: distance learning, telemedicine, private networks, and
internet connection.
Taking into account this increased importance, in 1999 the
PCC.III Working Group decided to establish a web site so that the Member States,
according to their laws and regulations, include their criteria, licensing
procedures and authorizations for VSAT stations.
Ms. Olga Madruga-Forti, coordinator of this database initiative,
successfully implemented it. The site provides licensing and operational requirements, any
license application form that may be required, filing procedures, and
contact information for licensing personnel within each Member State.
Based
on these contributions the coordinator conducted a comparison of the VSAT
licensing regimes in the Americas and presented a report to the XX meeting of
PCC.III. From recommendations included in the report, a resolution was
approved to do a study on the feasibility for implementing One Stop Shopping (OSS)
in the Americas. The study will include among others: the identification of
the procedure difficulties that the Member States may face when implementing
the OSS and propose appropriate solutions for overcoming these difficulties.
