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Workshops
Pre-conference Workshop | Post-conference Workshop
Pre-conference Workshop – Tuesday 21st June 2005 10.00am – 5.00pm
Interconnect Costing For Mobile Services
Led by: Dr. Markus Steingröver and Martin Bouchard, Detecon International
| 1. Clarification of terms and concepts of cost accounting in mobile telecommunications |
- Significant Market Power and the need for costing models?
- Basics of pricing and costing interconnection services of mobile operators
- What are costs of efficient service provision?
- Top-down versus bottom-up cost models
- Fully allocated costs vs. Long-Run Incremental Costs (LRIC)
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| 2. Top-down versus bottom-up modelling of Long-Run Incremental Costs for mobile services |
- How can both approaches be applied to mobile networks?
- Efficiency, or determination of the relevant number and capacity of network elements
- What about 3G?
- Accounting separation and Activity-based Costing (ABC)
- Different depreciation methods and their effects
- Allocating costs of network elements to network services: the routing table
- How to deal with common costs and customer acquisition costs?
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| 3. Externalities, common costs and Ramsey Pricing |
- Attributing common costs that cannot be allocated to a particular service
• Cost allocation options: equal proportionate mark-up; efficient component pricing rule; pro rata apportionment
- Ramsey Pricing
• Concept of Ramsey Pricing, elaboration of price elasticities of demand, modelling
options, arguments of NRAs and operators
- Network externalities
• Explaining the concept and measuring options, arguments of NRAs and operators
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| 4. Regulatory challenges of costing and pricing in a packet-switched environment |
- Regulation of NGN services
• What are the issues?, assessing the current regulatory approach to NGN interconnection
- Service costing: is LRIC and EBC here to stay?
• Applying LRIC and EBC to NGN, treatment of incumbents network updates, potential services for cost orientation
- Developing NGN Costing Models: critical issues
• Defining the cost objects, element based costing approach, quality of service and
SLA, PSTN, peering, VoIP termination
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About your
Workshop Leaders
Dr. Markus Steingröver works as Managing
Consultant in the Strategy and Finance
Department of DETECON International. He
has more than 8 years of experience in
Telcommunications Regulation. Before
joining DETECON International, Dr. Markus
Steingröver was Costing and Tariff Setting
Expert at the German Regulatory Authority
for Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP).
At Detecon he advises regulatory
authorities and operators on tariff
regulation, interconnection and costing
issues all around the world. He also led
several large projects dealing with sector
reforms and privatisation issues.
Martin Bouchard works as a Consultant in
the Strategy and Finance Department of
DETECON and has five years of experience
in telecommunications. His focus is on
interconnection service costing, tariff
rebalancing, and organisational
restructuring at fixed and mobile telecom
operators in various countries. Latest
projects were concerned with mobile
interconnection costing by means of
bottom-up LRIC models. |
Post-conference Workshop – Friday 24th June 2005 9.00am – 2.00pm
Mobile Access: Regulation and Market Forces
Led by: Serafino Abate and Tony Lavender, Ovum
| Part 1 |
- Introduction: your goals for the day: what the attendeeswould like to get out of the workshop
1.1 Introducing mobile access measures:
- The rationale for using mobile access regulatory measures
• Relevance for retail competition
- The different types of measures:
• Indirect access/call origination
• MVNO access
• Asymmetric regulation & national roaming
1.2 The optimal regulatory approach to mobile access regulation
- Ex-ante vs. ex-post
- Regulatory obligations
- Price regulation
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| Part 2 |
2.1 The EU framework for mobile access regulation
- The current framework
- Evaluating the current framework in respect to emerging markets (IP telephony et al.)
2.2 Market Status: regulation & impact on competition
- Regulatory measures adopted so far
- Issue of joint dominance
• Joint dominance and market failure
• Case studies
2.3 Exercise
2.4 The MVNO wholesale opportunity
2.5 Conclusions
- Mobile access: market forces vs. regulation.
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About your
Workshop Leaders
Serafino Abate is Research Director for the regulation & competition
research group. He is responsible for directing Ovum’s research strategy in
the regulation and competition area, and takes a leading role in Ovum’s
work on interconnection. Serafino’s expertise spans from regulation and
interconnection, wholesale services to competitive benchmarking. From
January 2002 to January 2003 Serafino was the manager for the
competitiveCommunications@Ovum advisory service that offers strategic
advice to over 50 clients and is Ovum’s fastest growing advisory service.
Tony Lavender, Director of Telecoms Research, is in charge of all telecom
research activities and is one of the leading Ovum experts on regulation.
Tony has twenty-four years experience in the telecoms industry. Prior to
Ovum he was at Oftel where he played a leading role in competition and
technical issues. Tony began his career with BT where he held a number of
senior roles over a 17-year period.
About Ovum
 Ovum is the leading European headquartered advisor on
telecoms, software and IT services.
Resolutely independent, Ovum advises large corporates, IT and
software vendors, IT service providers, telecoms operators, regulators,
service providers and equipment suppliers on the commercial impact of
technology and market changes in telecoms, software and IT services.
Ovum takes a global perspective on leading-edge developments through
offices in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific and delivers advice on
market trends and drivers and insight into companies, markets and
technologies through its advisory services and tailored consultancy.
More information on Ovum, its customers and its independence is available
at www.ovum.com/about |
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