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infoDev’s ICT Regulation Toolkit, the most complete online repository of its kind, has completed all seven modules originally designated to cover the range of relevant themes. The final piece, Universal Access, is now available in beta version, with the finalised content being made available during the month of April. Self-described as “a live resource for policy-makers, regulators, the telecom industry, and consumers. It provides a global overview of how telecom policy is best implemented with practical materials highlighting experience and results.” The toolkit is kept up-to-date with new links to resources being added on a regular basis.

Module 1: Regulating the Telecommunications Sector: Overview
Module 2: Competition and Price Regulation
Module 3: Authorization of Telecommunications Services
Module 4: Universal Access (beta)
Module 5: Radio Spectrum Management
Module 6: Legal and Institutional Framework
Module 7: New Technologies and Impact on Regulation

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At the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) 8th Global Symposium for Regulators, Six Degrees of Sharing: Innovative Infrastructure Sharing and Open Access Strategies to Promote Affordable Access for All, participants will discuss and debate a range of sharing strategies that have been grouped into the following categories: 1)basic/passive infrastructure sharing; 2) open access to international capacity; 3) business-sharing regulation; 4) active infrastructure sharing; 5) end-user sharing; and 6) policy and regulatory harmonization.

For the session on Sharing Fibre Networks, Tracy Cohen (Councillor of ICASA) and Russell Southwood (founder of Balancing Act) have prepared a paper “Extending Open Access to National Fibre Backbones in Developing Countries,” which examines regulatory, policy and practical approaches for open access architecture.

Go to the 8th Global Symposium for Regulators webpage.
Download the Extending Open Access paper from the ITU website.

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The ITU’s World Information Society Report 2007 contains the following discussion of one of LIRNEasia’s flagship products, the Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) assessment, in Chapter 2, Bridging the digital divide (p. 32).
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