TATT hosts regional spectrum management talks

The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) will host five days of re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al dis­cus­sions on spec­trum man­age­ment, satel­lite con­nec­tiv­i­ty and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions reg­u­la­tion from No­vem­ber 2 to 6.

T&T Week of Spec­trum 2026 will bring to­geth­er reg­u­la­tors, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, in­dus­try rep­re­sen­ta­tives and in­ter­na­tion­al ex­perts for train­ing and dis­cus­sions ahead of the 2027 World Ra­dio­com­mu­ni­ca­tion Con­fer­ence (WRC-27), where gov­ern­ments re­view in­ter­na­tion­al rules gov­ern­ing ra­dio-fre­quen­cy spec­trum and satel­lite or­bits.

The pro­gramme will in­clude three main en­gage­ments fo­cused on strength­en­ing reg­u­la­to­ry ca­pac­i­ty, re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion and ex­pand­ing con­nec­tiv­i­ty.

On No­vem­ber 2 and 3, glob­al pub­lic pol­i­cy and reg­u­la­to­ry ad­vi­so­ry firm Ac­cess Part­ner­ship will host a work­shop on satel­lite pol­i­cy and reg­u­la­to­ry readi­ness. The ses­sions will ex­am­ine satel­lite li­cens­ing, re­silient com­mu­ni­ca­tions, emerg­ing satel­lite tech­nolo­gies and prepa­ra­tions for WRC-27.

The pro­gramme will al­so fea­ture a dis­cus­sion with Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Min­is­ter Do­minic Smith on the coun­try's dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion agen­da, the use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in pub­lic ser­vices and the reg­u­la­to­ry mea­sures need­ed to sup­port in­no­va­tion and con­nec­tiv­i­ty.

On No­vem­ber 4, the Caribbean Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Union (CTU) will con­vene its Spec­trum Man­age­ment Task Force meet­ing at TATT's head­quar­ters in Barataria. The hy­brid meet­ing will in­clude in­dus­try con­sul­ta­tions and work­ing group ses­sions to ad­vance an up­dat­ed Caribbean Spec­trum Man­age­ment Strate­gic Plan and re­view its 2026 Ac­tion Plan.

Work­shops led by Welch­man Keen on No­vem­ber 5 and 6 will ex­am­ine reg­u­la­to­ry ap­proach­es to satel­lite con­nec­tiv­i­ty and the op­por­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges as­so­ci­at­ed with the 6 GHz band.

TATT chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Kurleigh Prescod said tech­ni­cal ca­pac­i­ty, re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion and sound reg­u­la­tion must ad­vance to­geth­er.

He said the week re­flect­ed TATT's com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing Caribbean col­lab­o­ra­tion on spec­trum man­age­ment and en­sur­ing the re­gion was pre­pared to con­tribute to dis­cus­sions at WRC-27.

The ses­sions will al­so ex­am­ine how satel­lite tech­nol­o­gy could im­prove con­nec­tiv­i­ty in re­mote and un­der­served com­mu­ni­ties, sup­port mar­itime and avi­a­tion com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and strength­en com­mu­ni­ca­tions dur­ing dis­as­ters.

Ra­dio-fre­quen­cy spec­trum en­ables wire­less ser­vices, in­clud­ing mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tions, broad­cast­ing and satel­lite con­nec­tiv­i­ty. Ef­fec­tive man­age­ment helps pre­vent in­ter­fer­ence and en­sures re­li­able ac­cess to these ser­vices.