The ITU Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) recently (23-24 March 2006) held a high-level meeting focusing on the policy and regulatory challenges related to the deployment of IP-enabled NGNs. The draft workshop concept document provides additional details on the objectives of the workshop. For information on related national, regional and international policy and regulatory initiatives, please click here.

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Chair: Eli Noam, Director, Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University, NY, USA

Date: 23-24 March 2006

Location: ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

Organizer: ITU Strategy and Policy Unit

Contact: spumail (at) itu.int

• Final Agenda (PDF)
• Speakers' Biographies
• List of Meeting Participants (PDF)

• The Chairman's Report from the meeting is now available [New!]

• Ruling the New and Emerging Markets in the Telecommunication Sector by Christian Wey, Pio Baake and Sven Heitzler 
• Interconnection in an IP-enabled NGN Environment by Scott Marcus
• Universal Service in an IP-enabled NGN Environment by Patrick Xavier

• Workshop web-cast archives can be found here

• Presentations and other workshop material are available here

• General information on Geneva
• Accommodation in Geneva