On September 29, 2005, the ITU’s BDT ended its current series of G-REX virtual conference by hosting its fourth and final session on spectrum management, as the last of an Expert Dialogue series mandated by the 2004 Global Symposium for Regulators. This session provided a forum upon which participants could present and discuss the spectrum management reform activities they are presently undertaking or considering in their respective countries. Professor Dale Hatfield, co-author of the recently released ITU publication Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2004/2005 and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at the University of Colorado, moderated the two hour conference, which included the participation of 18 countries. Prof. Hatfield moderated the previous sessions as well. Four separate presentations were given by various specialists, including Mr. Jerome Louis of Mauritius, Mr. Juan Pablo Velasquez of Guatemala, and Mr. Brian Miller from New Zealand. A further presentation was given by Mr. Bob Jones and Mr. Adrian Foster - both of McLean Foster - on their recent work on the InfoDev Toolkit. This was for the benefit of updating participants on recent ITU/World Bank InfoDev activities relevant to the regulatory sphere. Each presentation was followed by a Q&A period. All information related to this conference is below. Future planned virtual conference series will focus on spam, broadband, and VoIP.

Presentations were given by:

• Mr. Juan Pablo Velásquez, of the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones de Guatemala
  titled The Guatemala Experience (view presentation slides here);

• Mr. Jerome Louis, of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) of Mauritius
  titled Spectrum Allocation for Broadband Wireless Access Services in Mauritius (A Case Study) (view presentation slides here);

• Mr. Brian Miller, of the Ministry of Economic Development of New Zealand
  titled Radio Spectrum Management Reform in New Zealand (view presentation slides here); and

• Mr. Bob Jones and Mr. Adrian Foster, contributing authors of the ITU/infoDev ICT Regulation Toolkit on Radio Spectrum Management gave an overview of the future contents of the toolkit (view presentation slides here)

The conference was recorded and can be viewed via the link here.