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Subject: 	Unravelling the Basics of Regulation under Convergence
Date: 	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:11:29 +0100
From: 	The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation 
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Reply-To: 	tdrtchrdpbgjr at email-reply.co.uk
To: 	alice at apc.org



Dear Sir/Madam,

*Regulation and Applications Under Convergence, 25-29 August 2008, 
Nairobi, Kenya*

Here's your chance to gain deep insights into an industry buzzword and 
to learn how it impacts your business and the industry as a whole. What 
do we really mean by convergence and what are its key drivers? What 
regulatory and legal frameworks should apply to converging networks and 
services? Perhaps you are an operator seeking to analyse how to 
consolidate networks into a single network capable of handling different 
kinds of traffic? Or you may be an IT technician or an engineer looking 
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convergence and how these interplay within an existing non-converged 
regime? Or you may be from a forward-thinking regulator looking to 
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*ABOUT THE COURSE*

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• Regulation and market structure
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conflicting issues, and how these have an impact on competition
• Models of new regulatory options in converging, competitive environments
• Licensing, standards of enforcement, service interoperability
• Unbundling, pricing mechanisms, tariffs regulation
• Interconnection pricing and regulation, universal access and universal 
service obligations, regulation and pricing of spectrum
• Converged applications, networks and services

*WHO IS IT FOR?*

The course is developed for staff of regulatory agencies, fixed and 
mobile operators, and economists and policy makers.

*ABOUT THE COURSE LEADER*

This course will be delivered by Christie Christelis, a senior associate 
at Alliances Consulting Group Inc. Christie brings over 20 years of 
international experience in ICTs including convergence technologies, 
wireless and mobile technologies, internet, broadcast interactive TV, 
IPTV, VoIP, satellite communications, fixed line and fixed wireless 
technologies. He has extensive experience in regulatory capacity 
building to address newly liberalised telecommunications and 
broadcasting environments. Through the CTO Christie has delivered 
training in the areas of convergence technology and regulatory issues, 
financial and economic considerations around carrier selection, number 
portability and the unbundling of the local loop, price cap formulation 
and implementation, and competition and privatisation. Christie holds an 
MBA, a B.Sc. (Eng.) in electronics, a graduate diploma in engineering 
and a diploma in programme management.

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