TATT, United States FCC sign telecommunications agreement

The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) and the Unit­ed States Fed­er­al Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (FCC) have signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU) aimed at strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion on telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions pol­i­cy and reg­u­la­tion.

The agree­ment was signed on June 18, 2026, and is in­tend­ed to strength­en the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two reg­u­la­tors and in­crease en­gage­ment on reg­u­la­to­ry pol­i­cy.

Ac­cord­ing to TATT, the MoU es­tab­lish­es a non-bind­ing frame­work for the ex­change of ideas and in­for­ma­tion on telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions reg­u­la­to­ry pol­i­cy. The ini­tia­tive recog­nis­es the role both or­gan­i­sa­tions play in pro­mot­ing telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions de­vel­op­ment, com­pet­i­tive mar­kets, tech­no­log­i­cal in­no­va­tion and ef­forts to bridge the dig­i­tal di­vide in their re­spec­tive coun­tries.

Un­der the agree­ment, TATT and the FCC in­tend to share in­for­ma­tion on telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, broad­cast­ing and re­lat­ed fa­cil­i­ties and ser­vices, in keep­ing with their na­tion­al laws, reg­u­la­tions, in­ter­na­tion­al oblig­a­tions and re­spec­tive man­dates.

Ar­eas iden­ti­fied for co­op­er­a­tion in­clude spec­trum man­age­ment, li­cens­ing, reg­u­la­to­ry is­sues, broad­band con­nec­tiv­i­ty, in­fra­struc­ture de­ploy­ment and emerg­ing trends in telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, in­clud­ing 5G.

Both or­gan­i­sa­tions wel­comed the agree­ment as a means of fos­ter­ing in­sti­tu­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion and mu­tu­al ben­e­fit. The MoU will re­main in ef­fect for three years.