Regulatory Affairs Branch

• Regulatory Affairs Branch

  Assistant Director

  Mr Sidney TSAN
  • Regulatory Division 1

    Head, Regulatory 1

    Mr K L YEUNG
  • Regulatory Division 2

    Head, Regulatory 2

    Mr Desmond YOUNG

Functions:

Regulatory Division 1

• Handling technical regulatory and related issues of fixed telecommunications services
• Handling technical regulatory and spectrum related issues of public mobile telecommunications services including 5G services
• Implementing the Government’s policy initiatives to facilitate roll out of 5G networks
• Managing Emergency Response System and investigation into service outage
• Managing the Emergency Alert System and providing support for dissemination of emergency messages with use of the system
• Providing support for dissemination of public announcements with use of SMS
• Providing support and engaging in special projects, such as the broadband speed test server
• Review of the use of telephone exchange sites
• Co-ordinating the use of land and government venues for installation of telecommunications infrastructures including radio base stations, hill-top radio stations, submarine cable landing stations and satellite stations
• Mobile coverage improvement and measurement in country parks and remote villages
• Providing single-point-of-contact service for landing, operation and maintenance of submarine cables and construction of cable landing stations
• Monitoring the implementation of measures to mitigate the risk of gas explosion in telecommunications manholes and backup power supply
• Updating technical guidelines/codes of practice on public telecommunications services and monitoring the compliance
• Administering the numbering plan, managing the special number arrangements and implementing relevant measures for efficient use of the numbering plan
• Reviewing requirements and handling matters in relation to number portability

Regulatory Division 2

• Handling licensing (including registration) and regulatory matters related to fixed and mobile network operators, services-based operators, localised wireless broadband service, wireless Internet of things, class licensees for public wireless local area network (WLAN) services, class licensees for offer of telecommunications services, etc.
• Assignment / re-assignment of spectrum for public mobile services including 5G services
• Investigation of suspected contravention and enforcement of licence conditions and regulations
• Review of regulatory regimes on interconnection and tariffs
• Monitoring interconnection charges and administering interconnection agreements
• Reviewing and enforcing regulatory accounting requirements for telecommunications services
• Providing legal support to the CA and OFCA
• Handling special projects and consultancy studies on various regulatory issues
• Providing secretariat support to the Telecommunications Regulatory Affairs Advisory Committee (TRAAC)