Tuesday, 3 July 2007

08:30 -

Delegate registration

09:30 - 10:00

Opening Ceremony

-     Welcome and introduction: Representative of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Republic of Korea

-     Address by the Chairman of TAS Group: Mr. Sahib Dayal Saxena, Director Finance, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL), India

-     Welcome speech: Mr. Kishik Park, Chairman ITU-T Study Group3, ETRI, Republic of Korea

Chairman: Mr Byoung Nam Lee, ETRI, Republic of Korea

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30

Session 1:

-     Tariff and Investment trends in the Asia Pacific region: Mrs R. Joshi, ITU/BDT

11:30 - 12:30

Session 2:

-     Evolution of tariff and interconnection issues: Dr. N.M. Son, Vietnam 

lunch

14:00 - 15:00

 Session 3:

-     LRIC costing and estimation - Country case study: Mr Byoung Nam Lee, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea

15:00 - 16:00

Session 4:

-     Determining International Bandwidth Tariffs – a Case study for Pakistan:
Mr Aasif Inam, Director Commercial Affairs, PTA, Pakistan

-     Foreign direct Investment in Pakistan telecommunications sector: Mr Aasif Inam, Director Commercial Affairs, PTA, Pakistan

Coffee break

16:15 – 17:15

Session 5:

-     Recent trends in the expansion of financing & investment opportunities for telecommunications services in the Asia Pacific region: Mr Amit Sinha, Senior Vice President, DBS Bank Ltd., Corporate & Investment Banking - Communications, Media & Technology, Singapore

Wednesday, 4 July 2007

09:00 – 10:00

Session 6:

-    Reversal of digital divide - the case of India: Mr Sahib Dayal Saxena, Director
   Finance, Bharat, Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL), India

10:00 – 11:00

Session 7:

-     Number portability - Asia Pacific Scenario, Country experience - Korea:
Mr Young Sic Jeong, ETRI, Republic of Korea

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00

Session 8:

        -    Comments from the Chairman, Mr Byoung Nam Lee

                                                    Closing of Seminar

lunch

14:00 

-      Regional Meeting of the Tariff Group for Asia & Oceania (TAS)