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