UCC Set To Host African Telecommunications Standards Meeting

By Spy Uganda

Kampala: The Uganda Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is set to host Africa’s second regional preparatory meeting for the forthcoming World Telecommunications Standards Assembly from October 7-11, 2019 at the Imperial Golf View Hotel, Entebbe.

The meeting will bring together African stakeholders in the telecommunications industry, including government representatives, experts, private sector players, and academia.

For more than 150 years, the ITU has worked with stakeholders around the world to forge co-operation in the global communications eco-system, telecommunications infrastructure development and radio frequency allocation.

In performing this role, ITU works through three sectors; Radio communication (ITU-R); Telecommunication Development (ITU-D); and Telecommunication Standardization (ITU-T).

The last Assembly was held in Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, in 2016 with an aim of generating common positions on critical issues ahead of every WTSA, regional preparatory meetings are held across the world.

Uganda and Morocco were selected to host the regional preparatory meetings in Africa and Morocco hosted the first in March 2019 and Uganda is hosting the second in Entebbe this week.

Telecommunications standards are necessary to facilitate global communications by ensuring that whether we exchange voice, video or data messages, different countries’ ICT networks and devices are speaking the same language.

As such, Uganda’s participation enables UCC, the local standardization body, to align with the latest priority sector areas in standardization while ensuring that Uganda’s needs and interests as a developing country are taken into account in the development of global telecommunications standards.