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The major strides taken in microelectronics
and computer science laid the groundwork
for the revolution in telecommunications
during the last third of the twentieth
century. Today the entire
world is interlinked, thanks to
telecommunications satellites, fiber
optics, television, radio and telephony.
In this context, the telecommunications
sector in the Andean subregion has
grown heavily and undergone numerous
changes. State monopolies
have been privatized and the markets
have been opened to competition
while, at the same time, supervisory
institutions were being created.
The changes in the telecommunications
market have also demanded regulatory
changes in order to ensure good
market operation.
Within the sphere of operation of
the Andean Community, the advances
are grounded in Presidential Guidelines
and Mandates and in a broad body
of legislation that reinforces the
development of the Andean telecommunications
sector.
In order to remove the obstacles
to free trade in the sector, the
Andean countries agreed in May 1999,
through
Decision 462, to liberalize
all telecommunications services,
except for sound broadcasting and
television.
The Andean countries also approved
a series of Community legal provisions
and took action to obtain a satellite
system of their own.
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The CAN Member Countries registered
orbital positions within the orbital
arc of 60°O – 70° with
the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), giving them the right
to commercially exploit those positions.
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With the adoption of Decision 395,
they approved the Regulatory Framework
for the commercial use of the Member
Countries' orbit spectrum resource
(OSR), through the establishment,
operation and exploitation of Satellite
Systems by private enterprises.
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The Member Countries are at present
defining the policy and regulations
for safeguarding, using and permanently
exploiting the Andean Community Member
Countries' Orbit Spectrum Resource
at orbital position 67° O, through
a permanent satellite.
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In November 1991, the Andean Committee
of Telecommunications Authorities
(CAATEL) was created by Resolution
No. VI. 144, with a membership consisting
of representatives of the agencies
responsible for regulating and administering
telecommunications policy in each
of the Member Countries. Its
function is, among other things,
to give the bodies of the Andean
Integration System advisory assistance
on telecommunications matters.
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Decision 462: Liberalization of the trade
in telecommunication services
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Decision 439: Legal framework for
liberalizing the trade in services
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