MVNO Congress Monaco: Mon 20 Oct 2008 - Thu 23 Oct 2008

I have already published several posts on MVNOs business and the impact of regulation in this blog.

I will be giving an overview of the regulatory situation at the next IIR MVNO Congress, The Riviera Marriott Hotel La Porte de Monaco, Monaco in October.

My presenation focuses on the impact of regulation on MVNOs business, more precisly has as objectives:


•Introduce to relevant issues on regulation

•Explain their importance for MVNO business case, value chain and business strategy

•Evaluate the impact of recent and future regulation on the MVNO business model.


If you are interested contact Sara Bishop, event organiser sbishop@iirltd.co.uk mentioning my name and you will get a discount.


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A Regulatory Strategy that Last

In the recent months more and more operators relized the importance of regulation and their impact on their business case.

It is always difficult to organise the information available in the company in a structured and logical way in order to evaluate the opportunitie, risks, treaths and impact of the regulatory agenda on the whole market.

This kind of impact analysis is important not only for operators, but also for policy makers that have to evaluate how their decisions can shape the market and whether information received from stakeholders are plausible.

We at SVP Advisors have developed a methodology and a model that is able to give decision makers the impact analysis every regulatory specialist would like to have.

The model is simple but detailed, it combine information from different sources to give an exact overview, a simulation of the internal situation of the company, the external competitive market and the company's retail market.

Interesting, isn't it?


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Reccomendation on Termination Rates 2008

The commission has published for public consultation before summer their last work on termination rates. The consultation last till mid of september. You can find here the relevant documents.

It is quite long time that the commision is triying to sell their position to european stakeholders: harmonisation of termination rates in all Europe is a must for an efficient communication market.

If we look at the broad impact of this reccomendation and the forthcomming challenges of convergence of network a proactive approach of the commission in this direction makes sense.

However, if the objective of the reccomendation is noble, we can hardly say the same for the tools used to achive it.

The commission obsession on using a LRIC bottom up model as a panacea is not supported by any empirical evidence of its effectiveness and superiority against a FAC or a LRIC top down. The IRG/ERG report on regulatory in practice have demostrated several times that there is not a direct correlation between harmonisation, lower interconnect rates and the use of a LRIC model.

For example: UK, currently the country with the lower fixed termination rates in Europe, uses a audited FAC and not the so loved bottom up LRIC. As my friend Gavin was used to say, if you use the right efficiency measures and audit properly the data received you will have comparable, if not in some cases superior results.

We can reconise that the commision knows about the weakness of a LRIC bottom up model in the final words of the draft reccomendation when is mentioned the reconciliation of the data with a top-down audited model.

There are more and more critics to the reccomenation I could do, however, I leave this exercise to the people that are going to answer to the reccomendation. What is imporant is that we discuss about it and may be a new course to the use of LRIC has been taken.

We have many years to prepare ourselves to the new rules, that we will have just to follow; someone out there will have to re-allocate costs to other services and others will have to check this allocations. So just follow the rules? No not really, you have time to send your comments to the draft reccomendation!

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Regulatory Cost Accounting and Modelling Conference: Dubai

SVP Advisors will partecipate as speaker, chairman and organiser of a workshop at the forthcoming IIR Cost Accounting and Modelling Conference in Dubai.

Interested?

I will post some update in this blog in September.

Sun 26 Oct 2008 - Thu 30 Oct 2008
Al Murooj Rotana Hotel & Suites, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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