Telecom regulator mulls regular disclosure of operators’ network quality

In a reply to a legislator’s enquiry, the city’s Bureau of Telecommunications Regulation (DSRT) said it is mulling regularly announcing the performance of the telecom networks of the operators here to help facilitate the public’s selection of telecom services.
The news is in response to legislator Chan Meng Kam’s enquiry about the high Internet service costs here, as well as his doubts about Internet connection speed.
The Bureau said it would gradually liberalise the telecom market by introducing more market competition to foster more ‘reasonable’ charges for Internet services.
Currently, the city has two fixed-line telecommunications operators: the dominant telco Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau (CTM) and MTEL Telecommunication Company Ltd.
In the response to Mr. Chan’s enquiry, the Bureau also said it plans to employ a third-party institution to assess the overall quality of the city’s telecom Internet services.
The telecom regulator additionally said it planned to increase to no less than 180 access points the free public wireless Internet service WiFi Go within this year.
The Bureau’s department head of telecommunications technologies and resources management Francisco Leong San Io mentioned in August last year that the government planned to facilitate 250 access points for the free WiFi service within the coming three years.