April 08th 2008

The Authority hosted an International Seminar entitled "Balance on the airwaves: free speech and responsibility" on April 2nd and 3rd 2008.
Presentations from the Seminar

March 14th 2008

The Authority has been advised that on Friday 14th March 2008, the Honourable Kennedy Swaratsingh, Minister of Public Administration, exercised his powers pursuant to sections 30 and 39 of the Telecommunications Act 2001, to terminate concessions and licences granted to Laqtel Limited.
Read the News Release

March 08th 2008
News Release

The Dispute Resolution Panel appointed to resolve the dispute in relation to final interconnection rates between Digicel Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Digicel) and Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (TSTT) delivered its final decision yesterday, 7th March 2008.

Read the Decision

February 21st 2008
Notice

The Authority wishes to announce that the deadline for comments on the "Proposed Central office Codes Exhaust Analysis Methodology" has been extended to March 7th 2008 at 4.00 p.m.

January 11th 2008
Recommendations have been made to the Minister of Public Administration for two additional Concessions for the provision of Free to Air Television Broadcasting services
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October 29th 2007
The Authority has published Radio Frequency Radiation measurements taken from cell towers throughout the country.
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October 22nd 2007
The Authority has issued a Press Statement on the Auction of Radio Spectrum to provide Public Broadband Wireless Services (BWA). more

October 16th 2007
The Authority wishes to advise that modifications have been made to the following documents:

• Eligibity and Evaluation Criteria for Concessions
  

• Concession Application Form

October 1st 2007
The Authority has laid charges against Laqtel Ltd. for failure to post a Peformance Bond. more

The Authority has issued a Request For Proposals to Provide Free To Air Television Broadcasting Services. more

August 9th 2007

NOTICE

We wish to advise that a modification has been made to the Consultative Document: " Proposed Costing Methodology". more

COMMENTS INVITED ON PROPOSED COSTING METHODOLOGY FOR THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR .
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July 16th 2007
A new version of the paper "Position and Procedures in respect of Non-Objections for Applications to Town and Country Planning Division for Site Approval of Telecommunications Structures" has been published.
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20th June 2007
Migration Plan: 1800 MHz Band to 1900 MHz Band Allocated to Cellular Mobile Services for the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT)

The Authority invites comments to the captioned consultative document. This document seeks to establish the process by which TSTT shall migrate its public domestic mobile telecommunications network from the 1800 MHz band to the 1900 MHz band allocated for cellular mobile services.

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June 15th 2007
Applications for the provision of public Internet services using wired facilities are invited.
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May 24th 2007
A revised version of the document 'Eligibility and availability criteria for Concessions' has been published. There have been changes to the Status of the Application Process for the various types of concessions.
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World Telecommunication and Information Society Day,
May 17th 2007.

Greetings from the Chairman
Greetings from the Executive Director (ag.)

Expressions of Interest are hereby invited from parties interested in providing ‘FREE TO AIR’ TELEVISION BROADCASTING SERVICES.
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Notice of Central Office Codes assigned to the various providers of mobile and fixed line telephone services in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Approved Budget for 2006/2007
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OPENING ADDRESS BY MR KHALID HASSANALI, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO AT A RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION SEMINAR, THURSDAY March 13, 2006, PREMIER QUALITY SERVICES LIMITED, MACOYA

Members of the Board of the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago

Dr John Prince Executive Director, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago

Participants

Members of Staff of the Authority

Members of the Media

Ladies and Gentlemen

I want to first of all welcome all participants to this seminar titled “RFID technology…opportunities and challenges” hosted by the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago.

The Authority was established by the Telecommunications Act (2001) as an independent regulator for the local telecommunications and broadcasting sectors. One of the significant mandates of the Authority is to effect the orderly liberalisation of Trinidad and Tobago’s telecommunications and broadcasting sectors.

The liberalisation process is well underway as the Authority is committed to achieving its mandate.

The liberalization of the telecommunications sector ladies and gentlemen is a platform for facilitating the development and introduction of new emerging technologies in Trinidad and Tobago. Radio Frequency Identification technology, commonly known by its initials RFID, can be categorized as one such technology.

To date, the Authority has had several requests for further information on this technology.  Since RFID technology has the potential to significantly impact networks, society and the economy, and is rapidly being developed and deployed in several countries around the globe, it was considered important to address the requests for further information and to provide a forum for all potential stakeholders. This therefore was the main inspiration for hosting this seminar at this time.

Analysts predict that RFID will revolutionize areas of the industry such as supply chain management, security and mobile telecommunications services.  In fact it is said that RFID is expected to have a deeper user penetration rate than cellular mobile.  One may wonder how there can be more users of RFID than there are of mobile phones given the current usage of mobile technology in Trinidad and Tobago is currently over 800,000 subscribers.

RFID systems can facilitate object-to-object communications which can impact the creation of a ubiquitous networked society. This will lead to new demands on telecommunications networks.

Several countries are charging ahead in the RFID arena and some of the leaders include Korea, China and Japan, which is hardly a big surprise. The Republic of Korea expects the RFID sector to be as important as the mobile phone business and the government is expected to invest over $800 million US dollars on RFID systems in 2006.
Ladies and gentlemen it must be noted that in Japan due to the high kidnapping rate of children, a networked-RFID system to allow parents to monitor and track their children’s location has been successfully deployed. This way parents can ensure that their children are in fact en route to school and in school when they are supposed to be. This application may appeal to some of us given the crime current crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago. Once the challenges faced by the development of RFID technology are adequately addressed, RFID has the potential to offer a wide variety of personal safety and security solutions.

It is said that RFID is the next big little thing. The rapidity with which the RFID sector is expanding has resulted in the need to constantly upgrade knowledge bases. It is hoped that your organisations continue to evolve alongside the process of technology development and liberalization.

May I take this opportunity to thank you for taking time off to participate in this event, which I am confident would add value to your current individual and corporate knowledge bases.

 Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you.