The Plenary names the IFT public servants that will chair and coordinate the Technical Committee on Portability meetings and works (Press Release 57/2014)
The Plenary names the IFT public servants that will chair and coordinate the Technical Committee on Portability meetings and works
• It appoints the Commissioner Fernando Borjón as chairman of the Technical Committee on Portability
• In the next five days the first session will be held, where the issue concerning the definition of the technical parameters for the implementation of the new rules portability is going to be addressed
In extraordinary session, the Plenary of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) approved yesterday the appointment of public servants who are responsible for chairing the Technical Committee on Portability. Compliance with this resolution is given to the provisions of the Second Transitional Rules of Number Portability, published on November 12 this year, in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación, DOF).
As Chairman of the Committee was designated the Commissioner Luis Fernando Figueroa Borjón, and Rafael Eslava Herrada was appointed as his alternate. While Felipe Alfonso Hernández Maya will be the Technical Secretary, and Nimbe Leonor Ewald Arostegui, will be his alternate.
In accordance with the 7th Rule of the Rules on Number Portability, the Committee will be chaired and coordinated by the IFT, and corresponds to the Plenary to appoint civil servants who will hold the positions of President and Technical Secretary of the Committee.
This Committee is a consultative forum of technical nature, which also will include representatives of telecommunications service providers and by which the efficiency of portability and necessary actions for the proper management of promoting the numbering and marking of telecommunications services that use them.
In this group there will be projects within which the respective adjustments and to define the technical parameters to apply to the processes of communication and information exchange between companies systems involved in a porting process.
The Chairman of the Committee shall convene within five calendar days after their appointment, a Telecommunications Service Providers with numbers assigned to celebrate the first working session.
Thus, the Committee is established as the first to execute the tasks aimed at the proper implementation of Number Portability Rules issued by the regulatory body.
