Arising from the
Regional Radiocommunication Seminar 2017 for Africa (RRS-17 Africa), which came
to a close in Dakar, Senegal recently, the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) Member States with focus on spectrum management on the continent,
reports ITRealms.
This seminar, ITRealms gathered was organized to address the regional
radiocommunications issues and notification, coordination and recording of
frequency assignments.
Jointly organized by the Ministère des Postes et des
Télécommunications (MPT) and
the Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications et des Postes (ARTP)
of Senegal, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the African
Telecommunications Union (ATU) the seminar was
opened by Mr Abdou Karim Sall, Director-General of the ARTP.
Some of the topics discussed during the forum, ITRealms reports, addressed challenges
and opportunities for Africa, under the framework of WRC-19, in particular
regarding “Emerging innovative technologies; 5G and IMT spectrum
identification; and Digital terrestrial television.”
ITU Secretary-General, Houlin Zhao said that in view of the
importance these matters hold for Africa, the forum programme has been devised
such as to allow experts from the region to exchange views both among
themselves but also with other specialists from other regions of the globe.
Also speaking, François Rancy, Director of ITU's Radiocommunication
Bureau, pointed out that the forum further addressed difficulties encountered
and solutions related to the migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT)
in a round table for the participating countries.
ITRealms recalls that
over 160 participants attended the seminar and forum, from more than 35 Administrations including Benin,
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroun, Central African
Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar,
Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal,
Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda
and Zimbabwe.
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