Company: LILA
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001712184-25-000031
Chunk: 76

Company: Liberty Latin America Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 76
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 to which our United States mobile services operations are subject to regulatory oversight include: roaming, interconnection, spectrum allocation, licensing and leasing, facilities siting, pole attachments, intercarrier compensation, USF contributions and distributions (such as through the UPR Fund), network neutrality, 911 services, consumer protection, consumer privacy protections, number portability, and cybersecurity. The FCC also released a final rule on July 6, 2022 making the industry-developed Wireless Network Resiliency Cooperative Framework mandatory. The new rule requires a five-pronged approach to enhance coordination during an emergency, typically resulting from a national disaster such as a hurricane. 

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Liberty Costa Rica

Liberty Servicios, Liberty Telecomunicaciones and Columbus Networks, as telecommunications operators and providers, are subject to regulation and enforcement under Article 121, paragraph 14, of Costa Rica’s Constitution, which enumerates a list of assets that cannot permanently leave the state’s domain, which includes the radio spectrum and the possible methods of its exploitation, the Law No. 8642, General Telecommunications Law (LGT), and Law No. 8860, Law for the Strengthening and Modernization of the Public Entities of the Telecommunications Sector, among other regulations. The main governmental entities involved in this industry are the MICITT, which leads policy development and implementation, Sutel, as regulator of the telecommunication operators and providers and competition agency exclusively for the telecommunications sector, and the Consumer Protection Agency of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce. In its activities, each of Liberty Servicios and Columbus Networks holds a telecommunications services license, both of which expire in 2028, issued by Sutel that authorizes the deployment and operation of its wireline HFC network throughout the country. These licenses authorize the following services: (i) paid television; (ii) the provision of fixed telephony service; (iii) internet access; and (iv) data links.

 Liberty Telecomunicaciones has a total of 100 MHz allocated in two concessions. For the first, granted in 2011, MICITT awarded Telefonica 10 MHz in the 850 MHz band, 30 MHz in the 1800 MHz band and 20 MHz in the 1900/2100 MHz band. This concession has a 15-year renewable term, expiring on May 12, 2026, that may be extended for an additional 10 year term, and we have begun the process to renew this concession. The second