Next Generation Telecoms Regulation Bootcamp

The Telco environment is ever changing and disruptive. This constant change introduces new complexities, ways to think and ways to do business. In order to harness the power Telco presents for operators, regulators and ultimately consumers; role-players will need to continuously upskill and keep informed.

This 3-day workshop is focused on creating opportunities for operator, regulators and interested role-players/stakeholders to build consensus on the way forward. Delegates will explore strategies in which partnership between regulator and operator is enhanced; and through collective understanding of the dynamic Telco markets maximise the potential for effective and efficient service delivery to all consumers.

Telco Operators, Telco Regulators, Interested Telco Stakeholders/ Role-players, Regulatory Executives

• Creating enabling environments for telecoms
• Understanding the role of regulatory interventions
• Undersatanding the telecoms network and architecture required for quality of service
• Appreciating regulatory issues as key factors in market entry and expansion decisions
• Ensuring that regulatory information is factored into business planning and decision making
• Applying regulatory cost modelling principles

• Facilitate a flexible regulatory framework to rapidly changing technologies
• Telecoms and regulatory coordination to promote the growth of new products and services, lower prices, better quality of service and higher penetration
• Understanding regulatory issues as factors in market entry and expansion decisions

1.         Telecommunications Regulation

o             Function of telco regulators – purpose and meaning/ objectives

o             Commercial influence of Regulation to operators

•             Network effects

•             Economies of scale

•             Efficiency

•             Monopoly and competition

2.         Legal and institutional frameworks

3.         Market Power and competition

o             The problem of market power

•             Definitions

•             Harmful effects

•             Single and Joint dominance

o             Correcting Market Power: Market definition

•             Product market definition

•             Geographic market definition

•             Upstream and downstream markets

o             Correcting Market Power: problems and remedies

4.         Costs and consumers

o             Costs: and introduction

•             Types of cost

•             Costs in a competitive market

•             why model costs

o             Costs: Building a model

•             The purpose of models

•             Different types of cost model

•             Geography and networks

5.         Spectrum

o             What is spectrum and why it is regulated

•             What is spectrum

•             The need for regulation

•             International institutions

o             Spectrum assignment

•             On merits

•             Auctions

•             Problems with spectrum auctions

6.         Future Challenges for Regulation

•             Platforms

•             5G

•             Internet of Things

•             Investment incentives

•             Security