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Telecoms Regulatory Environment

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The course will cover:


  • The role and logic of regulation and competition policy
    • Regulation – establishing the need
    • The role of regulation
    • Factors affecting regulation
    • Competition or regulation? Competition and the role of the market
    • Dealing with market failure
    • Promoting competition
    • The telecommunications value chain and the design of regulation
    • Protecting the customer / consumer
    • Types of regulation and how they are applied
    • Regulation in a competitive market

  • How telecommunications regulation works
    • The overall legal and regulatory regime
    • The philosophy of regulation: setting frameworks and incentives
    • The institutions of regulation: the role and objectives of the telecoms regulator
    • The instruments of regulation: designing the tools of intervention
    • Specific issues that regulation addresses:
      • Universal service
      • Spectrum management
      • Quality of Service
      • Lawful interception
      • Emergency service access

  • The evolving regulatory environment
    • Stages of development of regulation
    • Convergence – changing the landscape
    • The impact of evolving markets on the objectives and design of regulation
    • Media and content – widening the scope
    • Licensing
      • Fixed / Mobile,
      • Services / Infrastructure
      • Spectrum

  • Different models of regulation
    • The models available
    • National requirements
    • Legal frameworks
    • Ex ante versus ex post intervention
    • Applying the right model
    • Changing the model as the industry develops

  • The principles of economic regulation
    • Economics of telecommunications
    • The need for economic regulation
    • Effective strategies
    • Measuring success

  • Competition policy
    • Exploring competitive environments
    • Maintaining credible information
    • Who contributes to competition policy
    • How is policy set
    • Market dominance / monopoly – the issues
    • Maintaining a level playing field
    • Eliminating barriers to competition
      • Number portability
      • The local loop
      • Infrastructure sharing
    • The subsidy issue
      • Universal access
      • Broadband in rural areas
    • Monitoring success
    • Dealing with market failures
    • Using sanctions

  • Regulatory institutions and the process of regulation
    • Regulators roles and responsibilities
    • Communicating a clear remit
    • A typical regulatory structure
    • Internal organisation
    • People – ensuring a workable structure
    • Communicating with
      • Industry
      • Government
      • Customers / Consumers
    • Processes and procedures
      • Consultation
      • Setting policy
      • License process
      • Disputes
      • Communication

  • Example - Telecommunications in the European Community
    • Evolution of regulation in Europe
    • The current situation
    • A changing environment
    • The effect of the EU
    • EU Regulatory instruments

  • Example - Regulation in small and developing economies
    • The importance of telecommunications
    • Benefiting the economy – which approach
    • Making regulation work
    • Assessing impact
    • Managing the changing market
    • Licensing – a key tool for effective management

  • Summary and key points

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