The Workshop

Pre-conference workshop The future of regulating voice, SMS and data roaming: Roaming III or alternative regulatory solutions?
Date:	Monday 8 June 2009
Led by:	Erzsébet Fitori Regulatory Affairs Manager European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA)
About the Workshop
The Roaming Regulation has been extended in time and scope and an ambitious mandate has been given to the Commission in consultation with BEREC to explore alternative regulatory options to the Regulation. Instead of setting retail price caps what other forms of regulation could result in competitive consumer prices? Should the Roaming Regulation be continued as a wholesale and transparency measure? Could a relevant market be defined by the Commission through which Regulators could intervene in the roaming market? This workshop aims at taking stock of the amendments of the Roaming Regulation and their expected impact with particular focus on the upcoming reviews of the Regulation in 2010 and 2011 and the future of regulating roaming services.
Workshop agenda
14.00 – 14.10	Opening remarks: Erzsébet Fitori Regulatory Affairs Manager ECTA
	The main amendments to the Roaming Regulation and their expected impact on the competitive development of the roaming market (extended voice caps, the wholesale data glide path, a single SMS cap, billing increments, transparency measures)
14.10 – 14.30	Consumer perspective, BEUC (speaker to be confirmed)
14.30 – 14.50	Luc Windmolders, Director Corporate Affairs, BASE
14.50 – 15.00	Discussion
15.00 – 15.30	Afternoon refreshments
Is there a need to regulate the European roaming market long term?
15.30 – 15.50	John Blakemore, Director of European Regulatory Affairs, Hutchison
15.50 – 16.10	Emanuele Vadilonga, Head of Regulatory, BT Global Services*
16.10 – 16.20	Discussion
What alternative regulatory solutions exist to the Roaming Regulation?
16.20 – 16:50	Stephen Banable, Implementation of Regulatory Framework (I), DG INFSO*
16.50	Rounding up
*provisionally confirmed
About your Workshop leader
Erzsébet Fitori	Erzsébet Fitori is currently Regulatory Affairs Manager at ECTA, the trade association representing over 100 competitive operators across Europe. Prior to joining ECTA in February 2008 she was Head of Regulatory Affairs at Pannon GSM (Telenor Group) in Budapest. Erzsébet’s early career saw her as an assistant professor in the Department of European Law and Private International Law at the University of Miskolc in Hungary, following traineeships at the European Central Bank’s EU Institutions and Fora Division in Frankfurt and at law firm Baker & McKenzie in Budapest. Erzsébet holds an LL.M. in European Community Law from Leiden University and a Degree in Law from the University of Miskolc, Hungary.
About The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA)
The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) is the leading pan-European precompetitive trade and lobbying association for European telecoms companies. Its objectives are to: Represent the business interests of its members by pursuing a regulatory agenda, which supports and drives effective market liberalisation and real competition in Europe. Provide a forum for Networking, Business Development and PR between telecoms operators, end-users and suppliers across Europe. www.ectaportal.com