ARCOTEL Resolution N. 2020-0124
The Agency for the Regulation and Control of Telecommunications of Ecuador (ARCOTEL) has published Resolution N. 2020-0124, which suspends all administrative and legal processes dealing with application requests that were in progress as of March 17th, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Exceptions to the Resolution
The exceptions to this resolution include application requests for essential services where the terms and deadlines will still apply. The following processes are suspended:
- Presentation of documents and information affecting telecommunications and broadcasting services, operation of private networks; use or exploitation of the radio spectrum.
- Presentation and delivery of information, periodic or specific reports that cannot be delivered through electronic means.
- Coercive procedures.
- Administrative procedures of challenges, resources, and administrative claims.
- Administrative sanction procedures.
- Obligations that must be executed within the term established in the Third General Provision of the Technical Standard for Mobile Portability.
- Procedures related to interconnection and access, as well as shared use of infrastructure.
- Procedures for blocking non-approved terminals.
Important Notice
Payments required to grant access to titles, fees for the use of frequencies, and other economic obligations must still be made while the Ecuadorian national financial system is operational.
For more information, please contact info@orbiscompliance.com - mailto:info@orbiscompliance.com or (408) 465-7331.