Table of Practice Notes
Practice notes provide brief descriptions of practical experience and summaries of important regulatory materials.
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Module 1: Regulating the Telecommunications Sector: Overview
Module 2. Competition and Price Regulation
Module 3. Authorization of Telecommunication/ICT Services
Module 4. Universal Access and Service
Module 5. Radio Spectrum Management
Module 6. Legal and Institutional Framework
Module 7. New Technologies and Impacts on Regulation
Module 1: Regulating the Telecommunications Sector: Overview
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Module 2. Competition and Price Regulation
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A Methodology to Estimate Effective Charges Due to Rounding Effects
Abuse of Dominance in Morocco
African Telecommunications Network Architecture
Anguilla: Disapproval of Proposed Interconnection Agreement
Austria: Regulation of VoIP Services
Barbados: Policy on Voice over Internet Protocol
Barbados: Price Cap Decision
Being Digital
Belgacom/ Tele Danmark/ T-Mobile Intl./ Ben Nederland Holding Joint Venture
Benchmarking: Adjusting for Exchange Rates
Botswana: Interconnection Dispute Resolution
British Telecom Found Not to Have Significant Market Power
Canada: Misuse of Information and "Win-Back" Behavior
COSITU: ITU Model for the Calculation of Costs, Tariffs and Rates for Telephone Services
Cross Subsidization and Accounting Separation
Customer Lock-In via the SIM Card
Definitions of Dominance
European Commission: Market Definition and Assessing Market Power
European Union: “Light Touch” Regulation of Voice over Internet Protocol
European Union: International Roaming in Member Countries
Fixed and Sunk Costs as Barriers to Entry
Forms of Market Failure
France: Regulating Mobile Termination Charges
Hong Kong: Price Regulation
Hong Kong: Regulation of Voice over the Internet Protocol
Jamaica: Cable & Wireless Reference Interconnection Offer
Jamaica: Relationship between the Sector-Specific Regulator and Competition Authority
Jamaica: The Benefits of Mobile Competition
Japan: Market-Fostering Framework for VoIP
Kenya: A Middle Path to VoIP Adoption
KPNQwest/ Ebone/ GTS Horizontal Merger
Malaysia: Defining the Communications Market
Malaysia: Remedies for Anticompetitive Conduct
Malaysia: Summary of "Guideline on Substantial Lessening of Competition"
Mobile International Roaming among Arab Countries
Network Neutrality
New Zealand: Dimensions of Market Definition
Nigeria: Proposed Regulatory Treatment of Voice over Internet Protocol
Ofcom: Principles for Regulation
Peru: tariff rebalancing case (1998) (Spanish)
Predatory Pricing Charge Against BT
Proposed Rules for Access and Interconnection in Trinidad and Tobago
Quantitative Tests for Market Power
Regulation of Cross Subsidization in Different Countries
Regulatory Forbearance in Canada
Reliance on Competition Law to Regulate Telecommunications in OECD Countries
Summary of the EU Proposal for Mobile Roaming Regulation
Tariff Structures and Rebalancing: ITU-D Study Group 1
Telecommunications Markets in Europe for Which Competition Law Alone Cannot Suffice
Telia/ Sonera Merger
The Bahamas: Benchmarking of International Long Distance (ILD) Call Prices
The European Commission’s New Regulatory Framework
The Importance of Low Latency
United Kingdom: Mobile Termination Charge Regulation
United States (Illinois): rate rebalancing case study
United States: Rules to Prevent Misuse of Information
United States: Safe Harbors for Mergers
United States: Unbundling
United States-Mexico Telecommunications WTO Dispute
Using Competition Law to Regulate Interconnection: The New Zealand Experience
Vertical Price Squeeze Charge Against Deutsche Telekom
Module 3. Authorization of Telecommunication/ICT Services
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Approaches to Transitioning to New Authorization Regimes
Australia and Singapore-Facilities-Based and Service-Based Licensing
Authorization Fees and the EU Authorisation Directive
Authorization Policies
Bahrain -Second Mobile Operator Licensing Schedule -2003
Belgium – Public Consultation on Mobile Telephony- 1999
Belgium –3G Licensing Process Schedule
Botswana: Multi-service Authorization Regime
Brazil- Multimedia Communications Services
Canada – Licence Fees Regulations
Conditions of General Authorizations
Convergence in the EU Regulatory Framework
Estonia- 3G Tender Information Document-2004
France- 3G Licensing Consultation Document- 1999
General Authorizations in the EU Regulatory Framework
Greece – 2G and 3G Licensing Consultation
Hong Kong, China – Consultations on the Licensing Framework for Unified Carrier Licences
Hong Kong, China – Transition to the Unified Carrier Licensing Regime
Hong Kong, China- Liberalization of Fixed Networks Consultation Document- 2001
India – Transition to the Unified Authorization Regime Chronology
India – Unified Licensing Regime Consultation Paper
India- ‘Unified’ Access Service Licensing
India- Regional Authorization
India's Communications Convergence Bill
Information Required in Open Entry Notifications and General Authorization Licensing Procedures
Institutional and Organization Changes in the Era of Convergence
Ireland – Transition to the General Authorisation Regime
ITU Case Study: India’s Unified Authorization Regime
Jamaican Agreement to Terminate CWJ Monopoly
Japan- Registration or Notification
Jordan – Mobile Operator Licence Consultation
Jordan- Pre-qualification Notice for 3rd Mobile Licence- 2003
Kenya -- Consultation on the Implementation of a Unified Licensing Framework
Kenya- Prequalification Notice for a GSM Licensing Process
Kenya- Prequalification Notice for a SNO Licences- 2003
Licensing Criteria for the Issuance of Unified and Multi-Service Authorizations
Licensing International Services in Canada
Licensing Pre-Qualification Criteria
Licensing Qualification Criteria
Licensing Qualification Criteria: Selected Country Examples
Licensing Selection Criteria
Lithuania- Notification and General Authorizations
Malaysia- Licensing for Convergence
Managing the Transition to a General Authorization or Open Entry Regime
Nepal – Rural Telecommunications Services Licensing Schedule
Nepal- Rural Services Licensing- 2003
Nigeria – Qualification Criteria for Unified Access Service Licences Applicable to Existing Licensees
Nigeria – Unified Access Service Licence
Norway- 3G Licensing Document- 2000
OECS Agreement to Terminate C&W Monopoly
One-time Fees and Recurring Fees
One-Time Initial Authorization Fees in Selected Countries, 2007
Process for Issuing General Authorizations
Public (Municipal) Initiatives
Public Consultation Processes
Reducing the Administrative Burden in Licensing
Registration Forms for General Authorizations
Regulation and Convergence in Ireland
Saudi Arabia – Data Services Licensing Consultation
Saudi Arabia -- General Authorization Framework
Saudi Arabia – Pre-Qualification for Data Services Licensing
Saudi Arabia – Schedule for Data Services Licensing Process
Saudi Arabia- Pre-qualification for Cellular Mobile Services Licensing
Saudi Arabia- Telecommunications Bylaw
Select Examples of the Implementation of the EU Authorization Directive
Selection Mechanisms in Comparative Perspective
Simplification of Authorizations
Singapore – Categories of Multi-Service Authorizations
Singapore – Licensing Process for Issuing Multi-Service Authorizations
Socio-Economic Benefits of Lower Authorization Fees
South Africa – Individual Licence Amendment Provisions in the Electronic Communications Act
Summary of EU Authorisation Directive
Summary of the EU Framework Directive
Switzerland - Invitation to Tender for GSM Licences - 2003
Switzerland- GSM Telecom Services Licensing Schedule
Tanzania – Authorizations in the Converged Licensing Framework
Tanzania – Multi-Service Licensing Processes and Procedures
Tanzania – The Converged Licensing Framework
Tanzania – Weighted Evaluation Criteria for Issuance of Multi-Service Licences
Terms and Conditions Permitted Under the EU Authorisation Directive
The Australian Licensing Process
The Botswana Licensing Process
The Greek Licensing Process
The Jamaican Licensing Process
The New UK Licensing Process
The Regulatory Framework for General Authorizations
The U.K. Licensing Process
The UK's OFCOM- A Converged Regulatory Authority
Trends in One-time Initial Authorization Fees
Trends in Recurring Authorization Fees
Trinidad & Tobago: Evaluation Criteria and Associated Weightings for Concession Applications
Uganda’s Multi-Service Authorization Regime
UK- Continuation of Licence Conditions
Using the Web to Increasing Licensing Transparency
Module 4. Universal Access and Service
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A demand study in rural areas of Mozambique
A staged approach to developing e-government
Australia and contestable USO provision
Canada’s Community Access Program (CAP)
Chile: Fondo de Desarrollo de las Telecomunicaciones
Colombia’s Compartel programme
Colombia’s universal access to community radio
Communications capabilities profiles
Debates about national roaming in the EU
Different local radio models in France
Distance learning using VSATs in the Solomon Islands
Donor ICT for Development Programmes and Expenditures
Economic Valuation Factor
Examples of financial services using mobile phones
Examples of open source software
Examples of the role of ICTs in supporting the MDGs in Asia
Finding out what the necessities of life are and how many people lack them
FITEL’s telecentre experience in Peru
Guidelines for universal access and universal service in Western Africa
Ireland’s regulation of broadband wireless access
Key Principles and approach to UASF policy implementation
Malawi Pilot – Prioritizing and selecting districts for UAS Project
Malaysia’s broadband plan – stimulating the private sector
Mobile Telecommunications Licensing in Botswana 1997
Model Outline for a UAS Policy
Models of Public-Private Partnerships
Nomadic deployments in Norrbotten County in Sweden
Outline for manual of operating procedures for UASF
Output-Based Aid (OBA) explained
Peru: Experience of the FITEL payphone programme
Pirai municipal network
Potential advantages of being a USO provider
Programmes to boost household PC penetration
Public intervention to support broadband deployment in the EU
Public-Private Partnerships in the telecommunications and ICT sector
Rules for the recycling and disposal of electrical and electronic equipment in the EU
Rural community radio in South Africa
Rural community radios in Mali
Service neutrality in the allocation of scarce resources
Sharing mobile network Infrastructure in India
Short wave radio in the Solomon Islands
Simple actions for improving the environmental effects of ICTs
Socio-Economic Benefits of Lower Authorization Fees
South Dundas Township and their broadband experience
Specific regional and poverty reduction impacts in Mongolia
Structural separation explained and applied
Table of Ministries, Policies and UAS/UASF Executing Agencies
The Alberta SuperNet experience
The eGranary digital library
The IEEE 1680 standard for the environmental performance of electronic equipment
The Loband web interface
The municipal wireless broadband networks in Knysna and Tshwane in South Africa
The prospects of achieving the WSIS targets, 2005
The residential service obligations of the incumbent in New Zealand in 1990
The rural wireless broadband network in Chancay-Huaral Valley District in Peru
The rural wireless broadband network in Myagdi District in Nepal
The Western Australian Telecentre Network
The WSIS principles and commitments, 2003 and 2005
UAS Policy of the Republic of Ghana
Uganda’s application process for rural schools to have Internet access
Uganda’s Rural Communications Development Fund
Module 5. Radio Spectrum Management
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Calculating the opportunity cost of spectrum in the UK
Canada: on-line licencing services web site, Industry Canada
Canada: Spectrum Fee Regulations and Guide
Capacity Assessment Grids
Check-list for implementing spectrum markets
Compliance with Technical Standards
Cost Recovery in Australia and Cost Analysis in Canada
CRMO South Korea – Monitoring System Architecture
Definitions: Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
Definitions: Spectrum Use Standards
Designing property rights for the operation of spectrum markets
EU Directive: Definitions for Mutual Recognition Agreement and Conformity Assessment Bodies
Guideline for Public Sector Investment
Guideline for the ITU World Wide Centre of Excellence
Guideline: Spectrum Management Regulatory Functions, Skills, and Institutional Capacity
Guidelines for Consultative Processes with Stakeholders
Guidelines for Investing in Automated Systems_ITU-R SM.1370
Guidelines for Investing in Monitoring Systems
Guidelines for Spectrum Auctions
Guidelines for Standard Terms of Reference for Spectrum Management Projects.
Inter American Convention on an International Amateur Radio Permits
ITU Publications
ITU Radio Regulations – Article 1, Definitions of Radio Services
New Zealand - International cooperation in spectrum management Ministry of Economic Development
New Zealand - Reallocation of Commercial Spectrum Rights
Ofcom Spectrum Usage Rights
Practice Guideline: Coping with Congestion in Unlicensed Spectrum
Practice Guideline: Transition to Market Based Methods
Pricing Policies for Spectrum Assigned to Government Departments
Public Consultation: International
Radiocommunication Services ITU Regulation
Radiocommunications Act RSC 1985
Refarming of Spectrum Resources
Spectrum Pricing: Administrative Incentive Prices
Spectrum revenues, fees, and administrative charges
Spectrum Trading in Practice
Spectrum Trading: Implementing Secondary Markets in the European Union
Types of band managers
What is Spectrum Trading?
Module 6. Legal and Institutional Framework
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Adjudication in India [7.4.1]
Adjudication in Japan [7.4.1]
Bahrain - Confidentiality of Information [7.2.1]
Box 3-5: United States Tripartite Review [3.3.2]
Box 6-4: OECD Guidelines on Dealing with Conflict of Interest Situations [6.5]
Box 7-10: UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation [7.4.1]
Box 7-12: Telecommunications-related Investment Disputes Outside the ICSID [7.1.4]
Box 7-8: Interconnection Disputes [7.4.1]
Box 7-9: Morocco’s Approach to Interconnection Dispute Resolution [7.4.1]
Case Study Converged Regulator: Ofcom [6.1.1]
Case Study Multi-Sector Regulator: Latvian Public Utilities Commission (PUC) [6.1.1]
Case Study Single Sector Regulator - Instituto das Comunicações de Portugal (ICP-ANACOM) [6.1.1]
Case Study Single Sector Regulator: Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) [6.1.1]
Case Study: Conflict of Interest Regulations in Bahrain [6.5]
Copyright in the US and Europe
Different Approaches to Facilitate In-Band Migration [4.3.2]
EU Copyright Directive [4.4.3]
Examples of Data Retention Rules in Different Countries [4.4.4]
FCC Rules Regarding Emergency Calls for VoIP Service Providers (E911) [4.3.1]
Foreign Ownership in Canada [3.4.2]
Foreign Ownership in the United States [3.4.2]
Hong Kong (SAR)- Public Consultation Process [7.2]
In-Band Migration [4.3.2]
Licensing broadband wireless access in Switzerland and France
Licensing of Wireless Technology in Different Countries [4.3.2]
Privacy and data retention policies in selected countries
Regulating WiFi and WLAN
Regulatory Treatment of WiFi and WLAN [4.3.2]
Singapore - Confidentiality of Information [7.2.1]
Spam Legislation in Australia, China, Malaysia, and the United States [3.4.4]
St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Public Consultation Process[7.2]
Table 3-1: Countries Committing to WTO Reference Paper with Different Legal Traditions [3.1.2]
Table 3-2: Jamaica and Brazil - Comparison of Telecommunications Laws in Civil and Common Law System [3.1.3]
Table 3-3: Countries that Established an Independent Regulator Post WTO, EU and Other Regional Commitments [3.2]
Table 3-5: Entity with Jurisdiction over Competition Issues in the Telcommunications Sector in Certain Countries with both a Telecommunications Regulator and Competition Authority [3.3.2]
Table 3-6: Foreign Telecommunications Ownership Restrictions in Selected Countries [3.4.2]
Table 4-2: Pros and Cons of Legislative Approach in Telecommunications/ICT Regulation [4.2.1]
Table 4-8: Licensing in Malaysia [4.5.3]
Table 5-1: Aspects of Effectiveness [5.1]
Table 6-1: Model 1 – Single-Sector Regulator [6.1.1]
Table 6-2: Model 2 – Converged Regulator [6.1.1]
Table 6-3: Model 3 – Multi-Sector Regulator (MSR) [6.1.1]
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) [7.4.1]
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) [7.4.1]
UK Office of Communications [4.4.1]
Understanding GATS [3.2.1]
United Kingdom - Ofcom Principles of Written Consultations [7.1]
US Copyright Directive [4.4.3]
Module 7. New Technologies and Impacts on Regulation
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A Community owned Wifi/VoIP Network in Laos
Allocating Spectrum Efficiently
Argentina: Cooperatives in a competitive terrain
Capital Telecom
Citel and Regulatel
Common public IT standardisation in Denmark
Computerization of Nepal Telecom
Convergence between radio and the Internet
Cost analysis for Cable Networks
Cost analysis for DSL Networks
Cost analysis for FTTH
Cost analysis for WiMAX
Definition of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator
Digitalisation of TV
Digitalisation, a short technical description
Diversifying participation
Duet
E.164
easyMobile Provision of mobile service via the Internet
E-Banking
E-Education