This module of the ICT Regulation Toolkit was originally developed by NERA Economic Consulting in association with Castalia Strategic Advisors and Kalba International. Roland Belfin developed the section on Regulatory Accounting and Theresa Miedema researched the section on Infrastructure Sharing.
Overview: Putting ICT Regulation in Context
The history of interconnection, price regulation and competition policy in the ICT sector, and the implications of changes in technology and market structure for regulation.
Competition Policy and the ICT Sector
Key concepts of competition policy and regulation: why competition is important; a comparison of competition policy and regulatory approaches; common anticompetitive practices and remedies; and analysis of business acquisitions.
Regulating for Interconnection
Tools and good practice in regulating interconnection, including: estimating costs and setting interconnection prices; commonly used cost models; benchmarking interconnection prices; mobile interconnection; interconnection dispute resolution; and cross-border interconnection.
New Paradigms: Voice Over IP and IXPs
Challenges arising from Voice Over IP (VOIP) and the Internet: VOIP interconnection; pricing Internet interconnection; and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).
Regulating Prices
Approaches to retail price regulation in ICT, including: the rationale for price regulation; key pricing principles; measuring tariffs and costs; determining the structure and level of prices; benchmarking retail prices; price caps and rate of return regulation; and non-price considerations in regulating prices.
Regulatory Accounting
A detailed guide on regulatory accounting, including regulatory accounting requirements, models and systems to support regulators and operators in developing their own regulatory accounting models and foster the implementation of such systems.
Infrastructure Sharing
This section explores policy and regulatory dimensions of sharing ICT infrastructure and capacity, with a particular emphasis on core infrastructure sharing and mobile network sharing. This section provides information related to key concepts and terms associated with sharing and the policy objectives frequently linked to sharing approaches. It provides a broad overview of various forms of sharing and a detailed examination of the sharing of national fibre core networks and the sharing of mobile networks.