Subregional Symposium

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Republic of the Marshall Is. Country Report
Sub-regional Symposium
ccTLD Workshop Apia, Western Samoa 19-25 June,
2006
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Outline of Presentation

• Institutional Arrangements
• NTA Internet Services
• Policy regulation
• Current status of .mh
• Future Plans
• Questions answers

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Institutional Arrangements

• Internet Service Provider
• Marshall Islands National Telecommunications
  Authority (MINTA)
• Policy Regulatory
• Ministry of Transportation Communications
• Designation responsibility with Cabinet

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Internet Service Provision

• NTA Network
• Sole provider
• Currently NTA has a total of 3Mbps downlink and
  2Mbps uplink to the Internet
• Current dialup customer base is around 1200 with
  roughly 30 broadband links to corporate and
  government offices.
• Software Hardware
• Mail servers running on Solaris 10
• Cisco routers, switches, and access servers
  running on network core.

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Policy Regulation

• Cabinet
• Policy making responsibility
• Designation
• Ministry of Transportation and Communications
• Limited to radio communications
• Designated an external entity to provide
  registration and administration of .mh
• Re-designation decision taken to .mh to local
  entity
• Status of .mh

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Future Plans

• Infrastructure development
• Backbone high capacity fiber systems and
  digitization coaxial systems
• Customer access network -Wifi hot spot deployment
  throughout the island
• Ministry to be accorded full policy
  responsibility including domain administration
  and registration
• National Telecommunications Policy
• New legislation to be promulgated later this year

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Questions Answers
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Komol Tata!