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To provide the market with standardized, truthful and reliable information on the coverage of public services of mobile telecommunications and fixed wireless Internet, the Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL) ordered the incorporation of new criteria for the publication of coverage maps on the websites of operating companies with more than 500,000 subscribers.
According to the Resolution of the Board of Directors No. 00151-2023-CD/OSIPTEL, published in the official newspaper El Peruano, the operating companies must publish the information of their georeferenced coverage maps on their websites, based on the infrastructure deployed throughout the national territory, as of February 1, 2024.
This seeks to reduce the information asymmetry for users regarding the real scope of coverage of mobile telephony and fixed wireless internet services, as well as promote competition for quality among operating companies.
Coverage areas
The new approach will distinguish two types of coverage areas: guaranteed coverage area, where mobile services and fixed wireless internet are provided ensuring compliance with the target values of quality indicators, and additional network capacity area, which extends from the guaranteed coverage area to a defined limit (determined by a signal strength parameter) where users can still access services. mobile and fixed wireless internet with some effectiveness.
It should be noted that the standard establishes an initial regulatory flexibility so that operating companies can report the guaranteed coverage area according to the particular characteristics of their networks and considering their own parameters that guarantee compliance with service quality indicators.
If it is noticed that the guaranteed coverage area reported by the operating companies does not correspond to the deployed infrastructure, its regulation will be established in accordance with the signal strength parameters defined by OSIPTEL.
Other modifications
The regulatory proposal also contemplates the modification of the General Regulation of Quality of Public Telecommunications Services. In this regard, it is specified that the quality indicators corresponding to public services of mobile telecommunications and fixed wireless internet are required in the areas of guaranteed coverage reported to OSIPTEL.
Likewise, migration to higher technologies is allowed to comply with the Improvement Commitments associated with the indicators of Voice Quality (CV) and Delivery Time of Text Messages (TEMT), and it is provided that operating companies with more than 500,000 subscribers must provide OSIPTEL with access to their network management system and / or coverage simulation.
In addition, the modification of the Standard of Periodic Information Requirements (NRIP) is established, incorporating the methodology for the Coverage Report and its new reporting formats in the NRIP.
Finally, the new coverage report formats will be incorporated into the NRIP from November 1, 2023, while the first report of the new coverage maps corresponding to the fourth quarter of 2023, must be sent to OSIPTEL until January 30, 2024.
