The Postal & Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) will from the 4th to the 7th of June host world radio communication conference at Kingdom Hotel in Victoria Falls.
The event is an African telecommunications preparatory meeting for the World Radio Communication Conference to be held in 2019.
The major conference will see all African nations converging to deliberate on issues around radio communication such as liberalization of radio airwaves, promotion of radio communication technologies and crafting favorable policies.
The Victoria Falls preparatory conference is a working group meeting to be used by the regulator to brace up for the World Radio Communication Conference in 2019. For the first time the global event is set to be hosted on African soil by Egypt.
POTRAZ Director General – Dr. Gift Machengete speaking at one of the regulator’s multi-stakeholder conferences.
The conference will see Potraz bringing stakeholders in radio communication to discuss the addition of mobile broadband frequencies as the regulator starts building up regulatory frameworks to intercept latest communication technologies such as 5th Generation (5G) and other embedded technologies in the Long Term Evolution (LTE).
- revise the Radio Regulations and any associated Frequency assignment and allotment Plans;
- address any radiocommunication matter of worldwide character;
- instruct the Radio Regulations Board and the Radiocommunication Bureau, and review their activities;
- determine Questions for study by the Radiocommunication Assembly and its Study Groups in preparation for future Radiocommunication Conferences.
