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Question 7/3

Question 7/3 - International Mobile Roaming issues (including charging, accounting and settlement mechanisms and roaming at border areas)

Motivation
There is a Rapporteur group on mobile roaming.
Members are actively working on this topic in many regions.
Cross-border connectivity is an increasing topic of relevance to certain developing regions in the world.

Question
The study of international mobile roaming, with a view to enhancing access, availability and affordability for users worldwide. 

Tasks
Cross-border connectivity issues - the study of avoidance/mitigation of roaming in border zones.
Identify mechanisms for reducing cost of international mobile roaming.
Tariff issues for services such as SMS and MMS.

Relastionships
ITU-T D. 98
ITU-D SG1
WTO