Company: LILA
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001712184-25-000031
Chunk: 63

Company: Liberty Latin America Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 63
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 landing stations and mobile network towers) with third parties, including competitors. However, it is anticipated that these rules will not become operational for some time as there are specific actions (including a prescribed costing methodology) that will take considerable time to complete. Our operations in Jamaica have already submitted their objections to the OUR on the premise that due process was not followed leading up to the promulgation of these new infrastructure sharing rules. Our operations in Jamaica are resolved to challenge the process ultimately to the courts for changes to be made to any adverse provisions of the new rules or to revoke them entirely. The process of such a challenge is likely to be long, and we cannot at this time determine the possibility of a successful outcome. 

In addition, ECTEL, the regulatory body for telecommunications in five Eastern Caribbean States (Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines), has adopted an Electronic Communications Bill that may have a material adverse impact on C&W Caribbean’s operations in the ECTEL member states. The proposed Electronic Communications Bill includes provisions relating to: 

•net neutrality principles mandating equal access to all content and applications regardless of the source and without favoring, degrading, interrupting, intercepting, blocking access or throttling speeds;

•subscription television rate regulation;

•regulations implementing market dominance rules;

•network unbundling at regulated rates; and

•mandated unbundled access to all landing station network elements at cost-based rates.

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We currently cannot determine the impact these provisions will have on our operations because national regulators are required to conduct extensive market reviews before adopting specific measures and these measures might be reconsidered in accordance with the market reviews. St. Kitts and Nevis enacted the bill in 2021 and was later followed by St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 2022. Other ECTEL states will follow to enact the legislation in the next few years, although a specific timeline is unclear, as it is the purview of each legislature to determine the precise date on which the legislation will be introduced for deliberation. The Electronic Communications Bill will not become effective until it has been adopted by all of the ECTEL states to ensure that the rules across these states are harmonized. Although the legislation does contain provisions which potentially increase the level and variety of regulation to which C&W Caribbean’s operations in ECTEL states may be subject, implementation of such rules will be time consuming and complex.