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Final report 2002: Designing Next Generation Telecom Regulation: ICT Convergence or Multisector Utility The final research report of the 2002 dialogue is now available. Released in January 2003, the report, Designing Next Generation Telecom Regulation: ICT Convergence or Multisector Utility?, examines the main alternatives being considered for the next phase of telecom regulation. It provides an assessment of evidence and a framework for analysis that will assist countries in examining the issues, options and implications, as they establish the policy objectives and design the structure of their own next generation telecom reform. WDR Discussion Paper 0201 In the paper Building the Regulatory Foundations for Growth in Network Economies, William H. Melody highlights some predominant characteristics of network economies and discusses their implications for "next generation regulation". "Even before the first phase of telecom reform has been completed in most countries... it has become apparent that the objectives, scope, powers and priorities of regulation for 21st century network economies must be reassessed in light of ICT and media convergence on the one hand, and the network development possibilities of multisector utilities on the other." WDR Discussion Paper 0202 The second paper, Some Implications for Regulation of ICT and Media Convergence was prepared by the WDR/LIRNE.Net research team at the Centre for Tele-Information at the Technical University of Denmark. The paper examines the relationships between technology and market developments and policy and regulatory initiatives. WDR Discussion Paper 0203 The paper prepared by the research team at Delft University of Technology, looks at the case for Multisector Utility Regulation, which largely rests on assumptions of economies of regulation: that it is more cost-effective to regulate two or more sectors through one agency than to regulate them through separate agencies. WDR Discussion Paper 0204 The team leaders from Delft and CTI, Rohan Samarajiva and Anders Henten, produced WDR's fourth discussion paper titled "Rationales for Convergence and Multisector Regulation." The paper critically examines the multiple rationales for ICT and media convergence regulation and multisector utility regulation. Final Draft Report on WDR's 2002 Research Theme-Discussion Paper 0205 In the paper Designing Next Generation Telecom Regulation: ICT Convergence or Multisector Utility?, Anders Henten and Rohan Samarajiva critically examine the multiple rationales for information and communication technology (ICT) and media convergence regulation and multi-sector utility regulation and the practical questions of implementation that they pose with a view to contributing to informed policy choices. The paper examines the conditions that may affect the creation of convergence and multisector regulation, ranging from underlying commonality of inputs and the behavior of regulated firms to considerations that are specific to the regulatory process such as scarcity of regulatory resources and safeguards for regulatory independence. The links below will take you to the download pages where you can read executive summaries of the papers and download the full papers as PDF or MS Word files.
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