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A model for calculating interconnection costs in telecommunications

World Bank, Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), Noumba Um, Paul

2004,2003

Overview

The liberalization of the telecommunications markets in Sub-Saharan Africa led to increased competition on the provision and pricing of communication services. But, due to the lack of appropriate regulatory tools, newly established regulators are poorly equipped to arbitrate increasing interconnection disputes between competing operators. This guidebook and its associated CD-ROM, including the cost model, were prepared to provide Sub-Saharan Africa regulators and operators with a sound regulatory tool allowing the determination of accurate interconnection costs, thus facilitating the settlement of lengthy and costly interconnection disputes between fixed and mobile operators. The cost model belongs to the family of “Bottom-Up” models, which calculate interconnection cost incurred by an efficient operator using the Long Run Incremental Cost (LRIC) methodology. The proposed cost model takes into account most features characterizing the development stage of telecommunications networks in Sub-Saharan Africa (small size of fixed network, importance of rural telephony, excessive reliance on microwave technology, explosive demand for mobile service, and weak regulatory capacity). A Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications offers telecom regulators and operators not only a decision support tool but also a stimulant to enhance an understanding of the logic of regulating a sector open to competition.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank and the Public–Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility
• Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan / ARCHITECTURE / BENCHMARKING / CALLS / CELLULAR OPERATORS / CENTER / COLLABORATION / COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES / CONSUMERS / Costs / DONOR COORDINATION / ECONOMIC COSTS / ECONOMIC CRITERIA / ECONOMICS RESEARCH / GDP / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / INCUMBENT OPERATORS / INFORMATION SYSTEMS / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENTS / LINES / MANAGEMENT CHARACTERISTICS / MATHEMATICAL MODELS / METHODOLOGY / MOBILE NETWORKS / MODEL PLANNING SYSTEMS / MODELING / MODULES / MONOPOLY RENTS / NETWORKS / OPTIMIZATION / PRIVATIZATION / RADIO / RADIO SYSTEMS / Rates / REGULATORY CAPACITY / REGULATORY REGIMES / RURAL RADIO / SIMULATION / SUBSCRIBERS / SWITCHING / TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE / TELECOMMUNICATION / Telecommunication -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Costs -- Mathematical models / Telecommunication -- Rates -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Mathematical models / TELECOMMUNICATIONS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT / TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATORS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR / TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES / TOPOLOGY / TOTAL COSTS / TYPOLOGY / UNION / UNIVERSAL SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
• ISBN: 9780821356715, 0821356712