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
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
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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]
Facilitating Cooperation between Regulatory Agencies – Memorandums of Understanding and Cooperation Protocols
Independence of the Polish Regulator
Interconnection Principles Contained in the WTO Regulation Reference Paper
Public (Municipal) Initiatives
The municipal wireless broadband networks in Knysna and Tshwane in South Africa
Using the Web to Increasing Licensing Transparency
Module 2. Competition and Price Regulation
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Anguilla: Disapproval of Proposed Interconnection Agreement
Barbados: Price Cap Decision
Barbados: Regulation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Benchmarking: Adjusting for Exchange Rates
Botswana: Interconnection Dispute Resolution
Canada: Misuse of Information and "Win-Back" Behaviour
Commonly Used Cost Models
Comparative Approaches to Price Squeezes and Abuse of Dominance
Cost Analysis for FTTH
Digital Dividend Spectrum
EU Telecoms Reform Package [1]
European Union: International Roaming in Member Countries
Final Offer Arbitration [1]
Forms of Arbitrage
Forms of Competition
Forms of Market Failure
Functional Separation
Hong Kong: Price Regulation
Infrastructure Sharing in India – An Imperative for Sustained Growth
Interconnection Principles Contained in the WTO Regulation Reference Paper
Ireland – The Role of Own-Use Requirements in Access Disputes
Issues dealt with in Interconnection Agreements
Jamaica: Cable & Wireless Reference Interconnection Offer
Jamaica: The Benefits of Mobile Competition
KPNQwest/ Ebone/ GTS Horizontal Merger
Malaysia: Defining the Communications Market
Mobile International Roaming among Arab Countries
Mobile Sharing in the European Union
Mobiles: Customer Lock-In
MVNOs Classification and Marketing strategies
National Roaming
Network Neutrality
New Zealand Commerce Commission v. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited and Telecom New Zealand Limited
New Zealand: Using Competition Law to Regulate Interconnection
Ofcom: Principles for Regulation
Peering and Transit
Quantitative Tests for Market Power
Regulatory Forbearance in Canada
Regulatory Implications of VoIP
Sharing Mobile Network Infrastructure in India
Structural Separation
Tariff Structures and Rebalancing: ITU-D Study Group 1
Telia/ Sonera Merger
The U.S. Pacific Bell Price Squeeze Case
Two-Sided Markets
United States: Rules to Prevent Misuse of Information
United States: Unbundling
United States-Mexico Telecommunications WTO Dispute
Vertical Price Squeeze Charge Against Deutsche Telekom
White Spaces Spectrum [1]
Module 3. Authorization of Telecommunication/ICT Services
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3G Licence Results: Asia Pacific and Canada
3G Licence Results: Europe
3G Licensing Case Studies
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
Best Practice Guidelines for Spectrum Auctions
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
Greece: The General Authorization Licensing Process
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 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 -- Request for Applications for a Licence to Provide Rural Telecommunications Service (RTS) in the Eastern Development Region
Nepal – Rural Telecommunications Services Licensing Schedule
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
Refarming of Spectrum Resources
Refarming Tools
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
Botswana: Multi-service Authorization Regime
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
Finland defines “universal service” to include 1 Mbit internet connection
FITEL’s telecentre experience in Peru
FTTH Projects
Guidelines for universal access and universal service in Western Africa
Infrastructure Sharing in India – An Imperative for Sustained Growth
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 Sharing in the European Union
Mobile Telecommunications Licensing in Botswana 1997
Model Outline for a UAS Policy
Models for Infrastructure Sharing: Ireland
Models for Infrastructure Sharing: Sweden’s Stokab
Models for Infrastructure Sharing: United States
Models of Public-Private Partnerships
National Roaming
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 (Municipal) Initiatives
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
Saudi Arabia -- General Authorization Framework
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 Regulatory Framework for General Authorizations
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 Multi-Service Authorization Regime
Uganda’s Rural Communications Development Fund
Module 5. Radio Spectrum Management
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AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION
ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNITY
Australia: Australian Communications and Media Authority – Frequency Coordination for Satellites
Best Practice Guidelines for Spectrum Auctions
Calculating AIP in Practice: An example for mobile spectrum
Canada: On-line licencing services web site - Industry Canada
Canada: Policy Statements - Planning, Consultation (National and International)
Canada: Pricing Policies Cost Recovery
Canada: Spectrum Fee Regulations and Guide
Capacity Assessment Grids
CARIBBEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION
CEPT EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ADMINISTRATIONS
Check-list for implementing spectrum markets
CITEL INTER-AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMMISSION
COOPERATION COUNCIL FOR THE ARAB STATES OF THE GULF
Coping with congestion in unlicensed spectrum.
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
Europe – Frequency Allocation Tables
European Commission – Spectrum Authorization Reform
European Parliament and Council Decision on a Spectrum Policy ProgrammeArticle 8a(3) of Framework Directive 2002/21/EC as amended by Directive 2009/140/EC
Examples of Re-farming: US and Japan
FCC and ITU Regulations Concerning UWB
Germany (BNETZA) - BWA Allocations and Auction
Guideline: Spectrum Management Regulatory Functions, Skills, and Institutional Capacity
Guidelines for Investing in Automated Systems_ITU-R SM.1370
Guidelines for Investing in Monitoring and DF Systems
Guidelines for Site Selection: Fixed Stations
Guidelines for Standard Terms of Reference for Spectrum Management Projects.
Industry Canada: Principles Applied to Re-allocating MSS Spectrum
Inter American Convention on an International Amateur Radio Permits
Interference Management - Various Approaches.
ITU - The Radio Regulations - Edition 2008
ITU Allocations for Broadband Wireless Access
ITU Publications
ITU Radio Regulation 5.150 - ISM Bands
ITU Radio Regulations – Article 1, Definitions of Radio Services
Mauritius – BWA Allocations
Mauritius - Compliance with Technical Standards
Mexico – BWA Allocations
New Zealand - Creation of Management Rights in the Broadcast and IMT Bands - 1999
New Zealand - International cooperation in spectrum management Ministry of Economic Development
New Zealand - Reallocation of Commercial Spectrum Rights
New Zealand: Devolution of Interference Management under a Management Rights System
Ofcom - Spectrum Usage Rights: A guide for describing SURs
Ofcom Spectrum Usage Rights
OFTA: Statement on Spectrum Fees
Online Spectrum Registers: Canada and New Zealand
Radiocommunication Act of Canada - R-2,1985, Revised 1989
Radiocommunication Services - ITU-R Allocations for Mobile-Satellite Services
Radiocommunication Services ITU Regulation
Refarming of Spectrum Resources
Refarming Tools
REGIONAL COMMONWEALTH IN THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATIONS
Review of the European Union Telecommunications Regulatory Framework, 2007
Selection Mechanisms in Comparative Perspective
Sharing Mobile Network Infrastructure in India
Spectrum Audit: United States - 2003
Spectrum Pricing: Administrative Incentive Prices
Spectrum Set-Asides for New Entrants – AWS Auctions in Canada
Spectrum Trading - GSR notes
Spectrum Trading in Practice - ECOWAS
Spectrum Trading Systems
Spectrum Trading: Implementing Secondary Markets in the European Union
Spread Spectrum Techniques
Thailand – Calculation of Spectrum Usage Fees: Generalized Formula
Training at ITU
Trinidad and Tobago – a simplified system performance model including license fee, spectrum usage and application fees.
Types of band managers
Underutilized License Exempt Spectrum in the UK
What is Spectrum Trading?
Windfall profits as a problem of transition to markets
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]
ENUM
EU Copyright Directive [4.4.3]
Examples of Data Retention Rules in Different Countries [4.4.4]
Facilitating Cooperation between Regulatory Agencies – Memorandums of Understanding and Cooperation Protocols
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]
ICANN
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 3-5: 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 Dispute over the Ownership of Egypt’s Mobinil
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]
VoIP Numbering schemes
Module 7. New Technologies and Impacts on Regulation
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A Community owned Wi-Fi/VoIP Network in Laos
Allocating Spectrum Efficiently
Applying laws to carriage and content
Argentina: Cooperatives in a competitive terrain
Barbados: Regulation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Capital Telecom
Citel and Regulatel
Common public IT standardisation in Denmark
Computerization of Nepal Telecom
Consumer issues with mobile TV
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
Digitalization of TV
Digitalization, a short technical description
Diversifying participation
Duet
E.164
easyMobile Provision of mobile service via the Internet
E-Banking
E-Education
E-Government
E-Health – Need for new services and networks
ENUM
EU Directive on Audiovisual Media Services
Examples of public-private partnerships
FTTH provided by NESA in Denmark
Ghana: Research and Education Network
Glossary of Terms for IPTV and Mobile TV
GSM, the line development
How to help technology help African entrepreneurs
ICANN
Influence of convergence on competition in the USA
Interactive entertainment and gaming
iPass
IPTV, Optimal Stream
Licensing in Malaysia
Licensing of VoIP in Latin America
M-Banking
M-Banking in Korea
M-Banking Motorola
Mexico: Open bands for WiMAX
Mobile Communication in Cambodia
Mobile in developing countries – an example from China
MobiTV
MVNOs Classification and Marketing strategies
Net Neutrality and the Regulation of Internet Traffic Management Practices of Internet Service Providers in Canada
Numbering in Columbian Telephone Numbering Plan
Peru: An Irrigation & Communication Technology Network
Peru: Non-profit-organisations in the telecom market
Price cap on leased telecom lines
Radio Spectrum in demand
Refarming of Spectrum Resources
Regulatory Implications of VoIP
Review of Canadian Price regulation
Scenario III, phone2Internet
Service providers in Africa
Skype – a global provider of VoIP
Somaliland: Internet Connectivity
Structural Separation of BT
The cost of VSAT connectivity in Somaliland
The essential facility doctrine
The European market for triple play services
Types of Converged Licenses in India
Universal Access to Telecommunications Service in Bhutan
USA: Community initiatives in new communication technologies
VoIP and the US Universal Service Fund
VoIP in China
VoIP Numbering schemes
VoIP scenario I, Pure Internet
VoIP scenario II, Internet2phone
VoIP signaling standards
What is a dark fibre?
Wireless broadband in USA
Wireless Macedonia