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Regulation and the Impact of Technology & Economic Realities

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Duration: 3 Days
Price: �2145* Plus Applicable Taxes

Date:
	16 - 18 Apr 12	London	Register
	17 - 18 Nov 11	London	Register

The course will cover:

The Concept of Regulation

Telecoms role in 21st Century industry
Technology change is everywhere
What is regulation?

Drivers for Change

Origins of telecoms regulation
Telecoms and market ideology
The changing social context
Network structures

Technology based regulation
Economically based regulation

Three phases of regulation
Development of differing regimes
Changing face of regulation

Network Characteristics

Network types
Network topologies
The speed of change
Scale-free networks
The Internet and the WWW
Origins of scale-free networks
Network robustness

Standards

Aims and objectives of standarisation
Benefits of standards
How standard are �standards�?
Global standards bodies and processes
European standards
US standards
Asian standards
The major standards bodies

Networks and Competition

Network externalities
Substitutes and complements
Network cost structures
Vertical complementarities and vertical integration of value chains
Convergence
How different is network economics
Network bottlenecks
Economic characteristics of various telecoms activities
Networks and competition: an overall assessment

Regulatory Issues: the design of economic regulation

Three stages of regulatory design
Designing a price control
Regulating specific prices
Regulatory characteristics of networks

Interconnection: the technical background

Forms of interconnection
Reasons to interconnect
Interconnection agreements
Objectives of pricing principles for networks
Interconnecting with mobile networks
Regulating mobile termination tariffs
International interconnection

Network Unbundling: the technical background

Full unbundling
Shared access
Bitstream access
Is unbundling necessary?
Costs and benefits
Functional separation

Network Pricing

Regulatory issues arising from interconnection
Two approaches to network pricing
Incremental costs and LRIC
Increment costs, �mark ups� and prices
�Efficient component pricing rule�
Price floors and ceilings
Pricing and investment risk
Pricing unbundled elements
Mobile call termination
Externalities and mobile call termination pricing

Regulating Radio Spectrum

Spectrum management
Spectrum as a resource
Spectrum policy and planning
National frequency allocation tables
Licensing, authorisation and administration regimes
The economics of radio spectrum
Spectrum pricing
Cost recovery
Administrative incentive pricing
Auctions

The Regulator as Competition Authority

Strategic behaviour
The emerging regulatory approach
An example of a market analysis
Potential remedies
When normal measures do not work
Deregulation: How much? How soon?
The change face of regulation

Universal service
Licensing

The changing structure of regulatory institutions

Regulatory Strategy

Designing a strategy
Choosing regulatory principles
Dimensions of regulation
Modernising regulation
Do recessions have implications for regulation?

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