Skip to content
 

Telecoms Academy Navigation

Telecoms Economics and Strategy

  • Course Name: Telecoms Regulatory Environment
  • Duration: 2 days
  • Technical Level: N/A

Programme

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:
    1. Universal service
    2. Spectrum management
    3. Quality of Service
    4. Lawful interception
    5. 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
    1. Fixed / Mobile,
    2. Services / Infrastructure
    3. 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
    1. Number portability
    2. The local loop
    3. Infrastructure sharing
  • The subsidy issue
    1. Universal access
    2. 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
    1. Industry
    2. Government
    3. Customers / Consumers
  • Processes and procedures
    1. Consultation
    2. Setting policy
    3. License process
    4. Disputes
    5. 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