Manatuto, 12 August 2025 – ANC and the National Directorate of Infrastructure and Communications (DNIC) held an awareness session on ANC's role and telecom infrastructure issues at the Manatuto Parish Hall.
ANC is a public institute with its own legal personality, financial and administrative autonomy, budget and assets. It was created by Decree-Law No. 15/2012 of 28 March on telecommunications regulation. Its mission is to regulate the telecom sector in Timor-Leste, especially telecommunications, radio-communications, broadcasting (in part) and the Internet, and to represent the Government of Timor-Leste in national, regional and international telecom bodies and events.
The aim was to explain how ANC regulates and supervises operators and telecom infrastructure in Timor-Leste, to present the IX Constitutional Government's programme for the Ministry of Transport and Communications, to encourage public participation in building telecom infrastructure, and to raise consumer knowledge through digital literacy, including their rights and duties.
The session was opened and closed by the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Mr José da Costa.
Participants included the Director-General for Administration and Finance, Mr Aniceto Leto Soro, the Executive Director of TIC Timor, Mr Venâncio Pinto, a representative of the President of the Manatuto Municipal Authority, post administrators, village chiefs, students, young people, PNTL, representatives of Timor Telecom, Telkomcel and Telemor, and other guests.
