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| Photo credit: ITU |
| From left to right: Luiz Novaes, Partner with Advisia; Brahima Sanou, Director
of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau; and Ambassador Ronaldo Sardenberg, President of ANATEL, after signing the contract |
Brazil’s ANATEL to develop cost modelling for telecommunication services through a consortium
The Brazilian government takes the view that the rates and
prices for interconnection and availability of elements of the telecommunication
network should be set on the basis of a longrun
cost model. Thus, at the request of the Brazilian Regulatory
Agency, Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (ANATEL), ITU’s
Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) managed a tender
process which ended with the selection of a consortium of
consulting companies to support ANATEL in the development of
cost-modelling for telecommunication services.
On 25 August 2011, BDT Director, Brahima Sanou, was in
Brasilia for the signing of a USD 8.22 million contract with the
winning company Advisia Management Consulting, which will
implement this project in consortium with Analysys Mason and
Grant Thornton. Mr Sanou underlined the importance of the
work that will be undertaken under the terms of the contract
for ANATEL, for the Brazilian market and for Brazil’s users of information
and communication technologies. “ITU is proud to be
part of this important mission, and of the trust that Brazil has
placed in our work,” he said.
The consortium will undertake a study to provide ANATEL
with the knowledge, models, applications and software needed
to determine the cost-based values, as well as benchmark rates,
for the interconnection of mobile services; operation of leased
lines; and interconnection of fixed services.
Also present at the signing ceremony were: the President
of ANATEL, Ronaldo Sardenberg; the Executive Superintendent
of ANATEL, Simone Scholze; Partner with Advisia, Luiz Novaes;
and the new Director of ITU’s Americas Regional Office, Hector
Huerta.
Advisia has two years to complete the work. The contract
will be managed and monitored by the ITU Regional Office for
Americas and the Caribbean in close coordination with ITU
Procurement and BDT’s Regulatory and Market Environment
Division, which will provide support in the form of ITU costmodelling
specialists. The ITU Information Service Department
will also provide support through a specialist in information and
technology.
Capacity-building activities through the Centre of Excellence for the Americas region
Initially a regional mechanism for knowledge sharing
and a network for capacity building, the Centre of
Excellence for the Americas region has consolidated its
diversified portfolio and critical mass of training programmes.
By the end 2010, it had achieved self-sustainability
both in terms of relevance to the ICT sector in the
region and from a financial point of view.
In a new project (number 9RLA11009), which started
in April 2011 and is expected to end in December 2012,
the Centre of Excellence and its nodes are offering online
training, carried out through the ITU Academy. From
April to July 2011, the Centre of Excellence delivered
online courses in the areas of: negotiation strategies on
the telecommunications sector; opportunities and advantages
of the new technologies; and e-business. The
Centre of Excellence also held the fourth Congress on
ICT and Telecommunication, a face-to-face event which
attracted 134 participants.
Support to the telecommunications regulatory authority in Peru
ITU has provided assistance to the regulatory authority
of Peru, Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL), under a revised
project signed in 2011. In addition, ITU delivered
a presentation during a major conference organized
by OSIPTEL within the scope of the celebration of the
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day,
under the theme “Better life in rural communities with
information and communication technologies”.
The original project (number 9-PER/04/026) was
signed by OSIPTEL and ITU in 2004, and mainly aimed
at contributing to the professional updating of the staff
of OSIPTEL through capacity-building activities organized
by international organizations, along with assisting
in the organization and implementation of courses in
the field of telecommunications. The project was also
expected to promote OSIPTEL’s participation in the main
relevant international telecommunication events, and to
cooperate in the organization of national and international
events in the fields of regulation of telecommunication
services and market development in a competitive
environment.
Because of changes in the Peruvian authorities, and
the different priorities set by the regulatory authority,
OSIPTEL decided to establish new priorities and implement
the project. Following the successful conference,
other activities are being discussed.
Training Brazilian telecommunication professionals
In another technical cooperation project, ITU’s
Telecommunication Development Bureau recently assisted
the Brazilian Regulatory Agency (ANATEL) to train
some of its staff, as well as staff from the Ministry of
Communications and other public institutions.
The training was based on an Advanced Special
Programme developed and delivered by the National
Institute of Telecommunications (INATEL) in close
coordination and under the supervision of ITU. The
programme focused on: a historical perspective of the
telecommunications sector in Brazil and in the world;
topics relevant to telecommunication regulation; and
economic management of telecommunication services,
including the protection of consumer rights.
The programme was designed to train 200 students,
of which 190 were staff members of ANATEL. Course
modules were completed by 196 students and the programme
was implemented successfully.
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