Thursday, April 5, 2007

SATRC workshop agrees to form working group

The participants of South Asian Telecom Regulators’ Council (SATRC) Workshop on “Interconnection in Convergence” have agreed to form a SATRC Working Group to share skills, information, and expertise on various issues among SATRC Regulators. The workshop also agreed to set up a common “Telecom Indicator Database” of SATRC countries, which would be shared by all the member regulators. The three-day workshop, organised by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), concluded here Wednesday

The participating delegates from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Sir Lanka, and Thailand also agreed that for future workshops and trainings the SATRC may invite a consultant of international repute having experience of the developed and developing world. A “model reference interconnect offer” for converged networks for SATRC countries would also be developed, the meeting decided. Issues pertaining to spectrum management, Quality of Service (QoS) and licensing in converged networks were also discussed during the final session of the workshop chaired by PTA Member (Technical) Dr. Muhammad Yaseen. staff report

Source: Daily Times

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