Current State of the Aerial Garbage Caused by Disused Communication Cable

Abstract

The objective of this work is to explain the way in which the aerial garbage caused by disused communication cables is generated to establish proposals that mitigate this problem in the city of Quito. For the development of this work, information from the Telecommunications Regulation and Control Agency ARCOTEL (acronyms in Spanish) and the Superintendency of Telecommunications SUPERTEL (acronyms in Spanish), related to the number of connections and disconnections of wired links during the last seven years nationwide was employed. The duties and rights of the Municipality of the Metropolitan District for the city of Quito were also analysed. Through documentary and quantitative analysis, the causes are defined, and recommendations are established to solve the problem.