Practice Notes
1 Overview
- 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
2 Competition and Price
- 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-Mexico Telecommunications WTO Dispute
- United States: Rules to Prevent Misuse of Information
- United States: Unbundling
- Vertical Price Squeeze Charge Against Deutsche Telekom
- White Spaces Spectrum [1]
3 Authorization of Services
- 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's Communications Convergence Bill
- India- Regional Authorization
- India- ‘Unified’ Access Service Licensing
- 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 -- General Authorization Framework
- Saudi Arabia – Data Services Licensing Consultation
- 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
4 Universal Access and Service
- 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
5 Radio Spectrum Management
- 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 - Compliance with Technical Standards
- Mauritius – BWA Allocations
- 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
6 Legal and Institutional Framework
- Adjudication in India [7.4.1]
- Adjudication in Japan [7.4.1]
- 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]
- 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]
- Spam Legislation in Australia, China, Malaysia, and the United States [3.4.4]
- 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]
- US Copyright Directive [4.4.3]
- VoIP Numbering schemes