[kictanet] "INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING" Nairobi, Kenya 6 – 7 June 2007: Eighth Forum on Telecommunications

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"INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING"
Nairobi, Kenya 6 – 7 June 2007
We are pleased to announce the eighth Forum on Telecommunications/ICT

Regulation in Africa (FTRA-2007), organized by the Telecommunications
Bureau (BDT) in collaboration with the Communications Commission of
Kenya (CCK).The Forum will be held in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya from
6 to 7 June 2007 and will be chaired by, Eng. John Waweru, the
Director General, CCK.
INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING: Africa is one of continents where countries
are still working on the roll out of basic infrastructure, including
the Telecommunications and Information and Communications Technology
(ICT). Various utilities and various Telecommunications and ICT
Operators in particular, are running parallel infrastructure that if
shared could have reduced the costs; duplications and wasting of
scarce resource. Further by sharing some infrastructure we could
minimize the negative impact in our environment!

Can Policy Makers and Regulators Promote Infrastructure Sharing
without jeopardizing the competition and the benefits to consumers?
Would the Sharing of Infrastructure minimize the impact on the
environment? What are the issues to be looked at when considering the
infrastructure sharing and what are the long term implications? These
and other topic will be introduced in the discussion paper being
prepared by the ITU/BDT for discussion in the Forum.

The Forum will be preceded in the same venue by the Public and
Private Partnership Forum (PPPF-2007) from 4 to 5 June 2007,
providing the opportunity for the participants to meet formally and
informally the representatives from the Private Sector, Policy Makers
and Regulators

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/afr/events/FTRA/Nairobi-2007/index.html 
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