Brazil. The National Telecommunications Agency, Anatel, approved the holding of a public consultation to re-evaluate the regulation and reduce barriers to the expansion of applications based on the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communication, known respectively by the English expressions of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M).
The public consultation, after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation, will receive contributions from the company for 45 days and will also be held in Brasilia, on a date yet to be defined, public hearing to clarify the proposal.
The approved public consultation will present the company with proposals for amendments to the Regulation on the Operation of The Personal Mobile Service (SMP) through the Virtual Network, making the accredited model more flexible, which has been adopted as a regulatory solution to support the most diverse IoT applications.
More flexibility will also be proposed for regional providers outside their area of operation through the use of numbering resources and their own roaming arrangements. In addition, the proposal seeks to guarantee consumers access to information on the conditions of use of the services in all offer documents.
Expansion
The president of the agency, Leonardo Euler de Morais, during the approval meeting of the public consultation, analyzed the importance of the future 5G tender, which will be auctioned next year, as fundamental for the expansion of IoT and M2M applications in Brazil.
According to the rapporteur of the consultation, Anatel advisor Moisés Moreira, "the role of the Agency, in the context of application development, is essential, with the mission of expanding telecommunications networks in the country to the billions of new devices that will have to be connected anytime and anywhere."
The President of the Agency also highlighted the importance of the regulation under study on IoT and M2M as an item of Anatel's Regulatory Agenda for 2019 and 2020. According to the rapporteur, the final approval of the regulation should take place by the end of 2020. Regarding quality standards, Moreira explained that the proposal under consultation creates exceptions to the application of these access rules intended only for the connection of IoT and M2M devices. The proposal is also in line with the National IoT Plan, approved by Decree No. 9,854/2019, he said.
