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Telecommunication License Exception to Rensarie College

On 15 January 2013 TRR granted a telecommunication license exception to Rensarie College pursuant to section 14(1) of the Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulation Act 2009 (Act). The exception was granted by TRR following the signing of an Agreement between TRR and Rensarie College (RC), effective from 1 December 2012 (“Agreement”) for the management and operation of the Rensarie Telecentre. The Agreement permits RC through the Rensarie Telecentre to provide a telecommunications services (internet) to the public.

However, given the circumstances of this pilot, and because Rensarie Telecentre is a Government initiated project intended to test the roll out of Broadband internet services in rural areas, the issuing of a license to it is not required, and would not be efficient or necessary for the provision of services rendered to the community and the general public of Rensarie.

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Apparatus Licence & Spectrum Fees Regulation

TRR has today, published the Official Government Gazette copy of the Radio Apparatus Licence and Spectrum Licence (Fees) Regulation. An approved, but un-gazetted copy was uploaded to the TRR website in November 2012, whilst the document underwent the normal processing period through the Government Gazette.

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Consultation Paper on Future Arrangements of the .vu

Due to a low number of responses and further to requests from stakeholders TRR has extended the deadline for responses to the consultation paper “Consultation on Future Arrangements of the .vu country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) Management.” to the 7th January 2013.

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Notice of Investigation Over Alleged Anti-competitive Behaviour

TRR issued this notice in accordance with clause 8.12(c) of the Competition Guideline, where it stated that “If TRR decides to accept the complaint, send a copy of the non-confidential filing….to the service provider whose conduct is the subject of the complaint and publish a notice on its website announcing the investigation”.

In early November 2012, Telecom Vanuatu Limited (TVL) formally lodged a complaint to TRR for investigation. In its complaint, TVL alleged some conduct of Digicel (Vanuatu) Limited to be in violation of section 23 of the Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulation Act 2009. After initially reviewing the complaint, TRR accept the complaints and forward a non-confidential copy to Digicel for response before TRR make a final determination. The investigation is now in process.

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Radio Apparatus Licence and Spectrum Licence (Fees) Regulation

On 14 November 2012, TRR has issued a Regulation on Radio Apparatus and Spectrum Licence (Fees) 2012. The purpose of this Regulation is to establish a framework for the prescribing and enforcement of fees and charges in respect of radio apparatus licences and spectrum licences.

The prescribing of licence fees and their enforcement is two-fold:

To ensure that spectrum usage is properly managed, ensuring that anyone using radio transmission equipment pays a nominal fee for the right to use the national resource; and

To ensure that the cost of the spectrum administration is recovered. This also ensures that only those who use the spectrum pay the fees and for spectrum management and the administrative costs of the Regulator is not allocated by the Government from the national budget.

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  1. TRR Publishes Quality of Service Guideline
  2. National Numbering Plan & Procedures Updated
  3. New Telecommunications & Radiocommunications Regulator announced
  4. TRR opens up 16X Short Code Range for Government and NGO public Information Services
  5. TRR Report on Public Consultation on Amending the Short Code Assignment Rule
  6. Consultation on Draft Advertising Guideline for Telecommuncations services
  7. National Numbering plan Update Applies as of 31 August 2012
  8. Spectrum Planning, Allocation and Assignment Practices
  9. TRR attended Pacific Broadband Forum in Fiji from 26 – 28 July 2012
  10. TRR AND POLICE sign MOU to clamp down on Hoax and Nuisance Calls to Emergency Short-Code Numbers

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