May 26, 2023 Results of Solicitation for Opinions on the Partial Amendment to the Regulations for Enforcement of the Telecommunications Business Act, and Report from the Information and Communications and Posts Administrative Council
Review of the technical standards’ scope for cloud-native networking

On Friday, March 24, 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) submitted an inquiry (Inquiry No. 3163) on a draft ministerial ordinance to the Information and Communications and Posts Administrative Council to partially amend the Regulations for Enforcement of the Telecommunications Business Act and solicited opinions on the revision.
Today, MIC received a report from the Council that it is appropriate to make amendments as inquired. Accordingly, MIC’s views on the submitted opinions through the solicitation for opinions were shown.

1. Overview

This ministerial ordinance partially amends the Regulations for Enforcement of the Telecommunications Business Act (Ministerial Ordinance of MPT No. 25 of 1985) and pertinent conditions in light of a partial report issued by the Information and Communications Council on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, which suggested re-definition of technical standards’ scope in light of advances in virtualization and other technologies.
A summary of the amendments is provided in Attachment 1 (PDF).

2. Results of solicitation for opinions and report

Regarding the partial amendment of the Regulations for Enforcement of the Telecommunications Business Act, MIC solicited opinions from Saturday, March 25 through Monday, April 24, 2023, and received two submissions. The submitted opinions and MIC’s views on them are shown in Attachment 2.
Today, the Information and Communications and Posts Administrative Council deliberated based on the submitted opinions and reveal their report to MIC that it is appropriate to partially amend the Regulations for Enforcement of the Telecommunications Business Act, as inquired.

3. Future plans

MIC will promptly revise regulation frameworks based on this report and the results of the solicitation for opinions.

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