New unified licensing roadmap for telecom
View(s):“Traditional licencing categories are becoming increasingly blurred and outdated. This evolution demands a shift toward a holistic and sustainable licensing framework that supports innovation, technology convergence, and market flexibility with technological neutrality and consolidation of services to align with international best practices to foster competition, encourage service affordability, and expand availability across the country,” the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRC), said in a public announcement.
The TRC said it has prepared a draft Unified Licencing Roadmap and called for public comments, proposals and representations on this document.
The TRC said it plans to implement key reforms, including service consolidation, unified licensing, enabling operators to provide multiple services under a single licence which is a cornerstone of this transformation. By consolidating the existing 39 service categories into sufficiently generic classifications, the TRC seeks to eliminate market constraints and unlock the full potential of technology convergence. This unified approach will not only streamline the licencing process but also promote innovation, improve administrative efficiency, and ensure a level playing field for operators.
The TRC’s initiative represents a critical step toward building a robust and Sri Lankan Unified Licensing Road Map forward-looking regulatory framework capable of meeting the needs of both wholesale and retail customers in Sri Lanka’s evolving digital landscape.
So far, the TRC has issued a total of 23 licences under a variety of different network categories (39 in total) under multiple service authorisation regime.
Licences have been issued to Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, Dialog Broadband Networks, Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Dialog Axiata PLC, Mobitel (Pvt.) Ltd, TATA Communications Lanka Ltd, Lanka Communication Services (Pvt) Ltd, Lanka Education and Research, Ask Cable Vision (Pvt.) Ltd, City Cables Links (Pvt.) Ltd, Trymas Media Network (Pvt.), Dialog Television (Pvt.) Ltd, Free Sat Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd, Supreme Sat (Pvt.) Ltd and Lanka Number Portability Services (Guarantee) Ltd.
The proposed new policy is aimed at establishing a robust regulatory framework that implements international best practices in a manner that is consistent with the Telecom Act, creates a level playing field and enables licencees to develop affordable and widely available services to meet the needs of corporate customers and consumers throughout Sri Lanka.
It said the first step to unified licences is to consolidate existing licences by network and by service. In the new regime there would be five network categories (Terrestrial, International Gateway, Satellite, Maritime, Aeronautical) and five service categories (Voice, Trunk, Data, Content, VAS).
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