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The international community is looking to ITU’s ITU-T members have agreed a Technical Guide for
unique public-private partnership to strengthen the National Regulatory Authorities on International
ties between technical innovation, business needs and Mobile Roaming Cost analysis
policy requirements. The technical guide will assist

Growing interest among ITU members in building greater regulators in their efforts to UIT-T
cohesion in the progression of technology and policy has create an enabling
led ITU-T Study Group 3 to work towards providing ITU’s environment for fair and
standardization expert groups with economic and policy affordable tariffs
baselines to be considered in the development of new technical for international mobile-
standards. roaming voice services. The
guide is accompanied by an
online tool which provides a
“ ISG3’s study of the financial aspects of to operators of providing
model to calculate the costs

mobile-roaming voice
telecommunications and ICT is very much services. The new technical Guide for NRAs on International
Mobile Roaming Cost analysis -
a study of convergence, and in particular guide and companion online Technical Paper
how convergence has affected the business tool were developed in 2015
response to calls from ITU
Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU ”
of network operators as new players have members for greater clarity
entered the fold of the ICT industry. on the degree to which the
prices that consumers pay

Telecommunication Standardization Bureau for roaming services are
commensurate with their costs.

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