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

• 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
• Understand important dispute resolution mechanisms and the role of the regulator in settling disputes
• Assess the regulatory challenges and issues of current regulatory issues such as Next Generation Networks, Net Neutrality, mobile money, roaming, and OTT
• Gain an understanding of the tools available to deal with the regulatory challenges of today's world

Overall picture of the global and competitive telecommunications environment

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

Regulation

• The need to regulate
• Principles for effective regulation

The regulator

• Role & responsibilities
• Organization
• Best practices

Competition policy, legislation and regulation

• Competition policy
• Telecommunications legislation
• Case studies

Licenses

Competitive Safeguards: Significant Market Power (SMP)

• Significant Market Power
• Pricing issues
• Marketing issues
• Dealing with SMP operators
• Enforcement

Interconnection

• Overview
• Structural policy issues
• Regulatory management issues

Retail price regulation

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

Interconnection regulation - RIOs

• Relevance of interconnection
• Types of interconnection
• Regulator's role
• Interconnection best practices
• RIOs and interconnection agreements
• Interconnection trouble spots

Interconnection costing and pricing

Local Loop Unbundling (LLU)

• End uses of local loops
• Local loop unbundling
• Broadband market
• SSNIP test
• Market findings
• Costing
• Pricing

Interconnection pricing approaches

• Interconnection pricing
• Interconnection arrangements
• COBAK

Market power and regulatory control

• Market power
• Regulatory implications
• Mobile price regulation
• VoIP price regulation

Roaming

• Defining the issue – why regulate?
• Regulatory approach
• Price caps
• Substitution
• Structural changes
• Next developments?

Costing and cost modelling

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

Reference Interconnection Offer (RIO)

• Interconnection agreements and RIOs
• RIO structure and layout

Dispute resolution

Interconnection Quality of Service (QoS)

• Overview
• QoS and interconnection regulation
• QoS for competitors-Canada
• QoS standards

• Overview
• Ofcom - British Telecom (BT)

Net neutrality 

• Definitions
• Regulatory approaches
• Regulatory developments in the USA and Europe
• Commercial issues

 Managing scarce resources

• Scarce resources
• Spectrum management
• Number planning
• Right of way

Protecting consumers QoS-USO-Data collection

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

Foreign ownership issues

'Spam' regulation

Regulatory reform and deregulation

• Global telecom trends
• Canadian case study
• EU case study
• Other case studies: Australia, NZ

Sources of telecom regulatory and policy information

Workshops and case studies

• 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

Location

About Neotelis