Meeting With a People's Republic of China Delegation

Today I had the pleasure to receive, together with Mr. Garcia Pereira (Director of Market Regulation), Mr. Mário de Freitas (Director of Special Projects) and Mr. Mário Florentino (Head of Mobile regulation) a Delegation from the People’s Republic of China, integrated by Mr. Shu Jianjun (Director of the Department of Planning – China Mobile), Mr. Wang Xicheng (Deputy General Manager of China Mobile),Mr. Du Guangda (Department of Planning of the Ministry of Information Industry), Ms Liu Shuping (Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Information Industry), Mr. Liu Yi (Department of Fixed Assets Investment of the National Development and Reform Commission), Ms Liu Li (Department of Development Planning of the National Development and Reform Commission), Ms. Chen Suang (Director of the Hi-tech Industries Development Division of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development & Reform), Mr. Li Bo (Deputy General Manager of Ericsson China) and Mr. Xing Laijun (Senior Sales Manager of Ericsson China) and Mr. Miguel Filipe (Ericsson Marketing & Business Development).

The Chinese Delegation was particularly interested in the regulatory framework of Universal Service (US) provision in Portugal (including US scope, net cost assessment and financing of net costs), in the development of the mobile wholesale and retail markets in Portugal and in Europe, in the competitive panorama in Portugal, in the authorisation and licensing regimes and in the conditions governing access to submarine cable landing stations. The deployment of NGN in China, which is occurring at a fast pace, was also briefly discussed.

IRG/ERG Team Photo

My application to the IRG/ERG Chair’s Secretariat was also a time for us, at ICP-ANACOM, to rethink the whole participation in the IRG/ERG in terms of confirming priorities, reinforcing commitment, widening availability and reanalyzing inputs and results.

I am really grateful for all the suggestions and contributions received from my ICP-ANACOM’s colleagues concerning the rationalization and efficacy of the Secretariat and also in relation to the words of incentive from fellow regulators in Europe and beyond.

From left to right our “IRG/ERG” Team: Carlos Costa (Co-chair of the End Users WG), José Barros (Director of European Affairs – CN), Prof. José Amado da Silva (Chairman of ICP-ANACOM), Ana Tojal (attaché of the candidate and former TF 99 Review participant), Luis Garcia Pereira (Director of Market Regulation), Manuel Costa Cabral (EU WG), Carla Amoroso (Mobile Market WG), Paulo Goulart (NGN TF), Teresa Lima (EU WG), Hugo Brito (Convergence PT), Paulo Fontes (Mobile Access WG; Legal Issues WG), Luis Manica (FN WG), Teresa Melo (Regulatory Accounting WG), Patricia Teodoro (SMP WG) and José Godinho (Fixed Termination Rate PT).

Reported as “Missing in Action”: Augusto Fragoso (Chair of the IRGIS WG, Co-chair of IRG Visibility PT, Head of IRGnet Support Team, IT Security WG), Mário Florentino (Mobile Termination Project Team, Competition in Oligopolies PT), Eduarda Gonçalves (VoIP High-Level TF) and Fátima Tobias (CN).

Behind this team there is, off course, an immense “invisible” work developed by many other people that contribute to IRG/ERG output production but usually do not attend meetings.

To all, many thanks !!!