Osiptel publishes for comments draft regulations for the provision of National Roaming service

The Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (Osiptel) published, this Sunday, July 23, for comments the ‘Draft of complementary regulations for the issuance of Mandates for access to mobile networks for the provision of the National Roaming service’.

Interested parties have a period of 15 calendar days from this Monday to send their comments through the Osiptel virtual party table by means of an attached file in MS Word format.

Among the scopes of the standard project is the definition of the procedure for the issuance mandate of the National Roaming Service (SRN). This indicates that, to start the negotiation stage, the operator of the origin network must deliver to the operator of the visited network all the documentation corresponding to the technical project, the list of populated centers for which the SRN contract is requested and the contract proposal.

In addition, it mentions that, once the negotiation period of 60 calendar days has expired without the parties having managed to sign an SRN contract, the originating network operator can request Osiptel to issue an SRN mandate. To do this, attach to your application, at least, the following:

• All communications and documentation sent between the parties during the negotiation stage, as indicated in the article.
• In case of lack of agreement, specify the points in which there are discrepancies and send the corresponding proposal.

Likewise, it is determined that the mandate request is inadmissible when any of the following causes is configured:

• The originating network operator has an outstanding debt under a pre-existing SRN contract.
• There are causes or technical circumstances that jeopardize the quality or continuity of the service in the area of ​​the requested populated center.
• The conditions established in article 6 of the SRN standard are not met.
• It does not accredit having started the negotiation stage according to the terms of article 5.
• The trading period has not expired.

It should be noted that, in March of this year, through Supreme Decree No. 002-2023-MTC, the Ministry of Transport and Communications approved the so-called ‘Standard establishing provisions for the provision of the National Roaming service’, in whose First Complementary Final Provision it is provided that, within a period of 120 business days, Osiptel must approve the complementary regulations that will regulate the mandates of National Roaming.

The draft standard can be found HERE.