Angelica Noboa Pagán has been involved in the reform of the Dominican sector of telecommunications since the beginning when the Dominican government, represented by the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency, the International Union of Telecommunications (UIT) thru the Program of United Nations for the Development and the telecommunications public utilities providers agreed the development of a new regulatory framework in the year 1995. In this year, Dr. Noboa entered as an Executive Trainee in the Compañía Dominicana de telefonos, C. por A. (CODETEL), and took over the task of monitoring the editing of the general government bill of telecommunications, until its approval by the National Congress and promulgation by the Executive Power in the year 1998, under the number 153-98, process of high resonance in the public debate in which Dr. Noboa maintained a very noticeable participation.
During that period Dr. Noboa participated in the discussion of an important number of regulations projects prepared by the UIT, subsequently delivered to the Dominican government. As a consequence of her participation in the reform project that concluded with the approval of General Law 153-98 on Telecommunications, in 1999 Dr. Noboa was rewarded in the gold category the "Award to Quality and Client Service" of CODETEL, the highest recognition for an individual employee. She also won that year, silver and bronze medals, for her participation in two team projects related to the regulatory reform called “Telecom Law” and “Implementation of the Telecom Development Contribution” respectively.
Further on as Market Regulation Manager of CODETEL, she participated in the discussion with the Dominican technical and diplomatic authorities in the elaboration of the telecommunications services offering enclosed to the Basic Telecommunications Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as in the advising in the beginning of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) in themes such like the rebalanced pricing and the retention of the contribution to the development of telecommunications.
In 2002, Mrs. Noboa Pagán, was appointed at the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) as Chairman’s Assistant to Mr. Orlando Jorge Mera. During the period in that role, Mrs. Noboa was part of the discussion of current Interconnection Ruling, as well as other regulatory pieces. She was also part of the technical team that assisted INDOTEL’s Board of Directors, in several interconnection conflicts as well as the issues raised by the North American International Carriers, related to the Dominican international calls termination rate, participating in the consult and discussion managements with the Federal Commission of Communications of the United States, to attend to this subject.
A la fecha, NOBOA PAGAN ABOGADOS, sin descuidar su estricta política de manejo de conflictos de interés, ha sido consultada por más de 5 prestadoras de telecomunicaciones sobre temas relativos a la aplicación de la Ley No. 153-98. También ha representado a 2 de ellas ante el organismo regulador, en procesos de solución de conflictos de interconexión y temas conexos y consultas públicas de propuestas reglamentarias sobre costos y tarifas, portabilidad numérica, acceso igualitario, entre otros.