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Telecoms Economics and Strategy

  • Course Name: Telecoms Economics and Strategy
  • Duration: 3 days
  • Technical Level: N/A

Programme

The course will cover:
  • Economic principles and the operation of markets
  • Economic principles
  • Regional differences
  • The free market view
  • The economic characteristics of telecommunications and ICT
  • The wider view - telecoms as an economic foundation
  • Telecommunications role in economic development
  • A free market view - aiding the development?
  • The role of governments and regulators
  • The economics of networks and network technologies
  • Introduction to network technology and network elements
  • Interconnection of networks
  • The economic structure of the industry and its operators
  • 'Value chains' in telecommunications
  • The concept of carrier pre-select
  • Local loop unbundling
  • Mobile virtual network operators
  • Provision of services and applications
  • Pricing
  • Economic factors affecting pricing policies
  • Pricing models
  • Commercial pricing strategies
  • The role of regulation in pricing
  • Risk and investment
  • Factors affecting risk
  • Assessing risk
  • Financial risk - a strategic look
  • Economics and risk
  • The economics of innovation and standards
  • Understanding and identifying standards bodies
  • The concept of disruptive technologies
  • The economic approach to electromagnetic spectrum
  • Understanding the radio spectrum
  • International, Regional and National allocations
  • Who owns the spectrum?
  • Analysis of spectrum pricing models
  • Stakeholders in the spectrum - who gets what and why
  • Licensing and assignment mechanisms
  • The impact of technology
  • The economics of regulation and the use of economic principles, competition policy and regulation in telecommunications
  • The National ICT and Telecoms plan - What are the objectives?
  • The Cultural, Political, Social and Legal landscape
  • Application of economic principles to the local environment
  • The role of the regulator
  • National and Regional competition policy
  • Adapting to changing world
  • Strategy development for operators
  • Strategy development for regulators
  • Economics and strategy - bringing it together