This section provides a set of best practices related to passive and active mobile infrastructure sharing.
- Establish clear, objective and transparent policy goals involving network sharing.
- Provide guidance on the types of sharing that will be allowed.
- Establish clear guidelines for the conclusion of voluntary sharing agreements, including maximum time periods to conclude agreements and to provide actual access.
- Create efficient dispute settlement and judicial review mechanisms, including specialized dispute settlement bodies.
- Allow and stimulate self-regulation.
- Promote dialogue between authorities, community members and operators about the installation of infrastructure.
- Allow network sharing, in particular site sharing and national roaming, in rural and remote areas.
- Make a thorough and objective assessment of the competitive situation, including research on consumer preference and consumer choice.
- Only impose restrictions that are strictly necessary to promote competition and proportionate to the established policy goals.
- Consider whether an open access model (such as the entry of MVNOs) or even functional separation would be viable, depending on the market situation.
- Consider providing subsidies for network sharing in remote or rural areas that are calculated to cover real costs and can be distributed in a competitive fashion.
- Monitor compliance with sharing requirements by requiring operators to provide regular reports and by creating an open dialogue with operators.
- Consider establishing websites publicizing the location of towers and other sites that may be suitable for infrastructure sharing.