International Telecommunication Union

Slovenia

Cost, tariff models and tariff rebalancing 2012

Cost model to determine prices of regulated services

Accounting separation situation

Tariff Rebalancing of fixed telephony services implemented

Type of costs on which the cost model is based

	Traditional Retail services	Traditional Wholesale services
Historical costs
Current costs
Other

Cost allocation methodology

	Traditional Retail services	Traditional Wholesale services
Fully Distributed Costs (FDC)
Long-Run Incremental Costs (LRIC)
Other

Approach applied

Interconnection issues 2012

Interconnection charging principle adopted

Charging regime for interconnection services applied

Approach used to regulate interconnection prices

Telecommunication services 2012

Fixed communications

	With price control	Without price control
Access to network (monthly line rental/subscription fee)
Local voice services
National long distance voice services
International voice services
IP telephony
Internet access (Internet connection) & data services
Provision of links (leased lines)
Other

Mobile communications

	With price control	Without price control
Access to network (monthly subscription fee)
Voice services
SMS
National roaming (voice, SMS)
International roaming (voice, SMS)
Internet access (Internet connection) & data services
Other

Broadcasting services

Wholesale telecommunication services subject to price control

	With price control	Without price control
Interconnection: fixed origination
Interconnection: fixed termination
Interconnection: mobile origination
Interconnection: mobile termination
National wholesale voice roaming
International wholesale voice roaming
Unbundled local loop
Wholesale boradband access/bistream access
Wholesale leased lines
Wholesale line rental
Access to Internet exchange points (IXPs)
Access to International gateways
Other

The prices of regulated services are determined using

	Traditional Retail services	Traditional Wholesale services
Price ceiling set by the State
Cost orientation (using cost models)
Benchamrking of tariffs
Retail minus approach
Rate of return regulation
Price cap
Other

Next-Generation Networks (NGN) 2012

Status of NGN development

Feasibility study
Planning
Introduction
Implementation
No plans to introduce an NGN system in a short run
Other

	Voice Service	Data Service
Regulatory arrangements subject to universal service obligations
Regulatory interconnection arrangements with networks using switching circuits
Banning of services based on IP
No regulatory arrangements defined at present
Other

Cost model is used (or planned) to calculate costs/ tariffs of new services supported by Next Generation Networks (NGNs)

Fully distributed historical costs model
Long run incremental cost model
Other,
None