CTT to improve telecom service for Smart City development

The Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) is reviewing its contracts and licenses with the city’s telecommunication service providers and planning for the procedures of renewing telecom and television contracts, according to CTT director Lau Wai Meng.
In response to an interpellation by legislator Ella Lei Cheng I, Lau said the local government is currently studying the licensing mechanism of technological convergence, pledging that the government is to remain in close contact with related industries to collect opinions from operators and to roll out more efficient policies for the development of the Smart City concept in Macau.
With the attempt to develop convergent services, CTT stated that the government is intending to improve related legal regulations, including to address the interim notary contract review of the public telecom service concession contract, soon to expire, in order to have an overall review of future telecom policies and the direction of their development.
On the other hand, CTT also responded to an enquiry by legislator Kuan Tsui Hang about the mutual interconnection of networks between Companhia de Telecommunicaçōes de Macau (CTM) and Mtel Telecommunication Company Ltd, stating that the Bureau had been assisting the two telecom providers to deliberate the interconnection.
CTT claimed that the arrangement in question would not affect any future business deliberations of the two operators regarding faster interconnections, as well as operations of other internet connections.