TRAINING WORKSHOP on Telecommunications Policy and Regulation for Competition ITU and NTC THAILAND Bangkok, Thailand  11-15 July 2005

ITU and NTC/Thailand organized a regional training workshop on Telecommunications Policy and Regulation for Competition in Bangkok, Thailand from 11 to 15 July 2005. Program

· Competition policy in the telecommunications sector: e.g. Network Externalities, Game  Theory, Essential Facilities Doctrine, Anti-Trust Analysis, etc.
· Dispute resolution mechanisms
· Consumer protection mechanisms

Documents

• Reporting remarks, opening and  closing address by the National Telecommunications Commission - pdf

• Opening remarks by the Head ITU Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific - pdf

Presentations

• Trends in Telecommunication Reform - pdf

• The Regulator's Toolkit - pdf

• Legal Theory and Practice:

  • Introduction and Basic Principles - ppt

  • Dispute Resolution - ppt

  • Consumer Protection - ppt

  • Country Case Studies - ppt

  • European Union "Significant Market Power" Practice - pdf

  • Interconnection - pdf

• Economic Theory and Practice:

  • Part I

  • Part II

• Regulatory Framework in Malaysia - pdf

• Telecom Industry in Thailand:

  • TOT Public Company Limited - pdf

  •  CAT Telecom Public Company Limited - pdf

Reference Material

• Legal Theory and Practice

• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (1999), "Anti-competitive conduct in telecommunications markets", Information Paper, Australia. pdf

• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2002), "Merger Law in Australia". pdf

• Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (2005), "Code of Practice for competition in the provision of telecommunication services 2005", Singapore. pdf

• Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. (2002), "Market Definitions for regulatory obligations in communications markets", Study for the European Commission, Executive Report. pdf

• Various authors, "Market Definition".  pdf

• Economic Theory and Practice

  List of references

  • Background Paper: Jino Kim (2005), "Economic theory and practices". pdf

  • Jino Kim and Steve Ostrover (2002) Uganda Telecommunications: A Case Study in the Private Provision of Rural Infrastructure, published by the World Bank. pdf

  • Mikhail Klimenko and Kamal Saggi (2004), “Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities”, NET Institute working paper. pdf

  • Federico Mini (1999), “The Role of Incentives for Opening Monopoly Markets: Comparing GTE and RBOC Cooperation with Local Entrants”, Georgetown University. pdf