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REG-100 Telecom Regulation for Today's World (in French)

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Description
A 10-day training course which will provide participants with an all-around understanding of telecom regulation as it applies in today's world. The course includes discussion and analysis of the key issues and tools available to ensure a fair and equitable telecom environment.
Objectives
  • Obtain a sound understanding of the global telecommunications environment and its impact on the activities of a regulator
  • Understand the key principles of regulation including competition policy and licensing and the role and responsibilities of the regulator in these areas
  • Understand the role and responsibilities of the regulator with respect to interconnection and tariffs
  • Analyze the regulatory issues represented by scarce resources including numbering and spectrum management
  • Assess the regulatory approaches to areas such as VoIP and other OTT services, Local Loop Unbundling, Next Generation Networks, mobile money, net neutrality, roaming and SPAM
  • Gain an understanding of the tools available to deal with the regulatory challenges of today's world
Topics
*Note: the course structure may be subject to change as trainings are updated on a regular basis.

The global telecommunications environment

  • Evolution of telecom industry structure
  • Global telecom trends
  • WTO regulatory standards
  • Implications for regulators

Regulation

  • The need to regulate
  • Key principles for effective regulation

The regulator

  • Role & responsibilities
  • Organization
  • Best practices

Competition policy and safeguards

  • General principles of competition policy
  • Telecommunications legislation
  • Significant Market Power (SMP)
  • Dealing with operators with SMP
  • Protecting competition

Licenses

  • Types of licensing regimes
  • Licensing objectives
  • Content

Interconnection

  • Definition and importance of interconnection
  • Role and responsibilities of the regulator in interconnection
  • Types of interconnection
  • Interconnection agreement
  • Interconnection pricing
  • Reference Interconnection Offer (RIO)
  • Interconnection Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Interconnection best practices
  • Sources of conflict in interconnection

Dispute resolution

  • Role of the regulator
  • Dispute resolution mechanisms

Cost and cost modelling

  • Why is costing important
  • Is costing complicated
  • Cost causation
  • Cost categories
  • What information is needed
  • Practical implementation of LRIC

Price regulation

  • Why regulate pricing
  • Rate of Return regulation
  • Price cap regulation
  • Rate rebalancing
  • International price comparisons
  • International long distance prices

Roaming

  • Defining the problem – why regulate roaming?
  • Regulatory approaches to roaming
  • Price caps to address roaming
  • Substitutes for roaming
  • Structural changes addressing roaming
  • Future developments

Managing scarce resources

  • Spectrum management
  • Number planning
  • Right of way

Local Loop Unbundling (LLU)

  • Implementation of LLU
  • Challenges & issues

Foreign ownership

NGN policy and regulation

  • Overview 
  • Change drivers and convergence
  • NGN regulation
  • Universal service impacts
  • NGN pricing and access

Net neutrality

  • Definitions
  • Regulatory approaches
  • Comparing the European and US approaches
  • Commercial issues
  • Net neutrality and the developing world

Protecting consumers 

  • Quality of service regulation
  • Consumer protection regulation
  • SPAM
  • Universal Service/Access (USO/A)
  • Industry data collection and publication

Mobile money

  • Key factors in regulation of mobile money
  • Key challenges in regulating mobile money
  • Regulatory approaches

VoIP and other OTT services

  • What is VoIP?
  • Regulatory challenges of VoIP services
  • Regulatory approaches to VoIP
  • Other OTT services

Trends in regulatory reform and deregulation


Target Audience
  • Telecommunications managers and personnel involved in telecom regulation and policy-making
  • Managers looking to complement their skill-set by gaining a good understanding of telecommunications regulation

Methodology

Our training courses combine expert presentations, workshops, case studies and discussions on real-life situations faced by participants. Complete training material is provided to all participants for future reference and follow-up action plans.

Location

Our public training courses are held at regular intervals in selected cities around the world. Upon request, our expert trainers can lead private training courses at the location of your choice or using a virtual classroom (distance training using a web-conferencing platform). For more information, or if interested in a private session, please contact us at training@neotelis.com.


About Neotelis

Neotelis provides training, consulting, conferences and publications to the telecommunications industry worldwide. Its team of experts has trained thousands of executives and managers working for operators, regulators, policy-makers and governments in over 100 countries around the world.


 

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Price
7795 $

Includes tuition, material, online access (Virtual Classroom/e-Learning Trainings) and lunches/refreshments during the course (Face-to-Face Trainings).
Registration deadline
Friday 31 July 2015
Our expert
Andrée Noël
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Availability
  • Presential
Testimonials
This has been a fantastic training. We should do more of this type of training to get a better competitive edge.
A great training experience. One of the most relevant in my career!
Overall, a very good program that I would highly recommend.
A great training experience.
Excellent from beginning to end. The trainer has the touch.
It was extremely helpful & has enhanced my job performance.
Neotelis is always good. And the trainer brought it to another level.