| Agenda |
| Day One:
WEDNESDAY 26TH OCTOBER 2005 |
| 08.30 |
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Delegate registration and coffee |
| 09.00 |
Graeme Maguire
Partner
BIRD & BIRD |
Opening remarks from the Chair
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| VOIP FOCUS STIMULATING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT THROUGH STRATEGIC USE OF REGULATION |
| 09.10 |
Alain van Gaever
Unit B1 – Policy Development
DG INFORMATION SOCIETY AND MEDIA, EC |
Creating a stable regulatory environment to stimulate the development and growth of VoIP
- Considering whether VoIP creates substantial challenges to the regulatory landscape
- Resolving the competitive consequences surrounding implementation of VoIP
Do certain companies possess SMP in the VoIP field as a result of their position in the traditional telephony markets? |
| 09.45 |
Olli Mattila
Senior adviser
FINNISH COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY
David Gunning
Director MarketFramework
COMREG
Christoffer Karsberg
Senior Adviser
NATIONAL POST AND TELECOM AGENCY, SWEDEN
Russ Taylor
Co-Founder
OFCOMWATCH
Eirini Zafeiratou
Director
GSME |
NRA VoIP Panel - does the VoIP market require an evolution or a revolution in regulation?
- How to respond to VoIP as it impacts national telecoms markets
- Assessing the timeframe necessary for developing a revised regulatory approach to cope with the new scenario
Commenting on the main regulatory challenges and the various national responses
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| 10.20 |
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Morning refreshments
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| 10.40 |
Jean Paul Simon
Vice President International Regulatory Strategy
FRANCE TELECOM |
How to regulate TV on DSL – a quick panorama
- How to classify it – the regulatory status of video
- Pandora’s Box – from access to copyright issues
- The new online multimedia world
- Towards a real internal market for services
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| 11.15 |
Richard Eccles
Partner
BIRD & BIRD |
WiMAX - Competition and Regulatory Implications
- The likely competitive impact of WiMAX - and issues to be resolved, e.g. spectrum frequencies - to harmonise or not to harmonise?
- The impact on existing operators of WiMAX and VoIP combination - convergence of Internet, voice, data and multimedia services
- Implications for the future regulation of the universal service in telecommunications
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| 11.50 |
Richard Stastny
Senior Analyst
ÖFEG |
Clarifying the latest thinking on emergency access from the Internet
- Current status of the discussions regarding access to emergency services from VoIP in Europe and North America
- Stating the requirements and the proposed solutions from the international standardisation bodies
- How can we enable any device to find local emergency numbers, location, and the local emergency centre?
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| 12.25 |
Roland Belfin
Manager CEO’s Office
RTR GMBH |
Establishing progress and latest developments in the field of mobile termination
- Developing a resolution of the ongoing termination debate
- Establishing an applicable pricing system
- Making termination fair for customers and operators
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| 13.00 |
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Lunch |
| 14.15 |
Giovanni Amendola
Head of Regulatory Strategy and International Affairs
WIND |
Considering the operator angle on the progress of mobile termination
- Examining market definition issues
- Imposing appropriate remedies considering the differences
- Clear guidelines and best practices for the assessing market power between SMP operators
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| 14.50 |
Andrea Camanzi
Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
TELECOM ITALIA |
Investing in technological innovation and emerging markets within the current framework
- What were the underlying principles that led to the adoption of the new regulatory framework as a substitution for the ONP model?
- Has the current implementation of the regulatory framework kept pace with technological developments?
- How can the 2006 proposal for a new regulatory regime foster the development of emerging markets?
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| 15.25 |
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Afternoon refreshments |
| 15.45 |
Mario Filipponi
Director European Affairs
MCI |
Should telecoms be regulated ex-ante or ex-post?
- Interplay between ex-ante and ex-post regulation
- Relationship between NRAs, NCAs and EC
- Can we roll back ex-ante regulation and rely exclusively on ex-post regulation?
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| INTEGRATING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS INTO THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK |
| 16.20 |
Alessandra Vulterini
Director Telecommunication Services
FASTWEB SPA |
Integrating Triple Play services into the regulatory framework
- Regulatory issues for a facility-based Triple-Player (access to TV content, competition from the incumbent, last mile control…)
- Focus on interconnection termination services on a Triple Play network – the right charges level (ie higher and asymmetrical termination charges with respect to the incumbent due to the higher network costs incurred by a new entrant and Triple Play operator)
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| 16.55 |
Monika Podplonska
Chief Expert
SMP Unit
Robert Rozek
Expert
SMP Unit
OFFICE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POST REGULATION, POLAND |
Fixed-to-Mobile substitution - should it be regulated differently as a result of market trends?
- How does mobile substitution threaten the competitive scenario?
- Evaluating whether substitution defeats existing market classifications and structures
- Restoring fair commercial competition to affected markets and examining the policy challenges
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| 17.30 |
Tomas Lamanauskas
Deputy Director
COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY, LITHUANIA |
Proposing a concept for regulating Triple Play bundling of services
- Is existing market position relevant to the move into the TV market?
- Debating the influence of control over the ‘last mile’ when trying to establish a level playing field
- The new relationship between operators and customers as bundled services become the norm
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| 18.05 |
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Closing remarks from the Chair |
| 18.15 |
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Drinks reception
You are invited to join today’s speakers and your fellow delegates at an informal drinks reception |
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Day Two:
THURSDAY 27TH OCTOBER 2005 |
| 08.20 |
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Delegate registration and coffee |
| 09.00 |
Philippe Defraigne
Director
Cullen International |
Opening remarks from the Chair
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| COMPARING MARKET SITUATION AND NATIONAL EXAMPLES FROM ACROSS THE CONTINENT |
| 09.10 |
Inge Bernaerts
Project Manager Electronic Communications Consultation Mechanism
DG COMPETITION, POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION SOCIETY COORDINATION UNIT |
Discussing the progress of the EU’s regulatory review process and its key findings
- Updates on Article 7 notifications and major cases
- What are the priorities for review?
- Where does the EC want pressure to conform to recommendations?
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| 09.45 |
Marcell Horvath
Director
Directorate of International Relations
NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY, HUNGARY |
Lessons learnt from pan-European experiences and challenges for the review
- Overview of key regulatory developments across Europe
- Comparative examples and priorities in the various countries and markets – how has regulation been balanced with the ‘laws of the market’?
- Difficulties and chief solutions during implementation
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| 10.20 |
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Morning refreshments |
| 10.40 |
Dr. Ferenc Tompa
Telecom Policy & Regulatory Affairs Executive Director
T MOBILE HUNGARY |
Better regulation? Food for thought from a mobile perspective
- The state of play – an overview of market situations and regulatory tools in the Hungarian mobile context
- A cautionary tale – mismatches between regulatory measures and market outcomes
- What is regulatory ‘best practice’? Some issues and potential approaches
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| 11.15 |
Neophytos Papadopoulos
Director
OFFICE OF THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS & POSTAL REGULATION, CYPRUS |
Studying pan-European progress from market review to full implementation
- Assessing the level of regulatory developments across Europe
- Comparative examples in the various countries - balancing regulation with the ‘laws of the market’
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| 11.50 |
Paul Moffatt
Senior Counsel
EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT |
EBRD experiences in the Telecoms sector in Central & Southern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- EBRD’s investment priorities in the telecom sector
- Market status and regulation in Telecoms across EBRD countries of operation
- ERBD Regulatory Development Programme
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| 12.25 |
Keith Read
Director for Regulatory Compliance
BT GROUP
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Advanced compliance strategies for enhancing legal and regulatory proof
- Determining the processes and measures to produce a compliance framework
- Tracking issues and ensuring responses are timely and complete
- Defining, measuring and proving improvements to your stakeholders
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| 13.00 |
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Lunch |
| TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES TO THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS |
| 14.10 |
Dr. Jan Krancke
Head of Regulatory Economics
T-MOBILE INTERNATIONAL |
Regulation of mobile markets – a mobile operator’s perspective on the upcoming review
- Reviewing the results of market analysis on mobile markets
- Assessing the impact of regulatory obligations on market dynamics
- Implications for the upcoming review of the EU telecommunications guidelines especially the recommendation on relevant markets
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| 14.45 |
Sandro Bazzanella
Director EU Affairs
EUROPEAN COMPETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION |
Crucial issues surrounding digital media content and protection for Broadband services
- Access and control of premium content over Broadband
- How can the EU and the NRAs drive change in this area?
- Reactive versus proactive regulation
- Understanding the failures needing resolving for Broadband digital media to become a central revenue stream
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| 15.20 |
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Afternoon refreshments |
| 15.40 |
Barney Lane
Principal Consultant
OVUM
and previously Director of Regulatory Affairs
MCI |
Next Generation networks and services – winners, losers, and challenges for regulators
- Which business models will thrive and which will not?
- How will interconnection models have to change?
- Challenges for the regulators - new problems or the same old ones?
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| 16.15 |
Luc Vanfleteren
Director Regulatory Affairs
TELENET |
Analysing what convergence toward a service-differentiated multi-platform environment will mean for the present system of market definitions and competition regulations
- Is wholesale cable comparable to bitstream?
- The need for an asymmetric approach for SMP operators on fixed termination - rationales behind non-reciprocal tariffs
- The broadcast transmission services - the impact of must-carry bargaining power of broadcasters
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| 16.50 |
Robert Erzin
Head of Regulation and Pricing Policy Office
Bostjan Makarovic
Legal Advisor
TELEKOM SLOVENIJE, D.D.
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Regulatory treatment of cable and other non-ADSL Broadband platforms
- Reasons for regulatory inclusion - substitutability of end-user Broadband products, strong competitive pressures for ADSL operators, vertically-integrated cable companies, control over end-user access infrastructure
- Reasons for regulatory exclusion - lack of external supply, potentially insufficient substitutability of ADSL/cable wholesale products
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| 17.25 |
Annegret Groebel
Head of Section International Coordination
RegTP |
Regulation for intermodal and intramodal competition in the
broadband market
- EU regulatory focus: bitstream, naked bitstream and unbundled local loop products
- The starting point: is there only one end-user broadband market?
- Reasons for regulatory inclusion: substitutability of end-user broadband products, strong competitive pressures for ADSL operators, vertically integrated cable companies, control over end-user access infrastructure
- Reasons for regulatory exclusion: lack of external supply, potentially insufficient substitutability of ADSL/cable wholesale products
- Regulatory strategies: does the ladder of investment work in practice?
- How to ensure competition between platforms?
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| 17.55 |
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Closing remarks from the Chair |
| 18.00 |
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Champagne prize draw and close of conference
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