INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
	
	Geneva,  22 May 2000	
	Publication Notice    No.  293-00	
Cancels and replaces 287-00

Reforming the international accounting rate system, 1999		

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During 1999, ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau continued to support developing countries’ efforts to review telecommunication costs and tariff reform. This addendum to the 1998 Review of “Reforming the international account rate system” contains the reports of the 1999 series of seminars and contributions from developing countries to the work of the Regional Tariff Groups and Study Group 3. These reports are complemented by three additional case studies.
	
Date of publication:	June 2000	
Language:	English, French, Spanish	
Paper format:	About 300 pages – A4 (21  29.7 cm)	
Electronic format:	Word for WindowsTM – Adobe AcrobatTM PDF	
Article number:	English:
French:
Spanish:	16854 
16855 
16856	
ISBN number:	English:
French:
Spanish:	92-61-08341-2
92-61-08342-0
92-61-08343-9	
Price in Swiss Francs:	Catalogue Price:     CHF  60.–
Member States and Sector Members:     –15%
Least developed countries:      – 80%
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Reforming the international accounting rate system, 1999

The 1998 series of BDT seminars and workshops highlighted the importance for developing countries to examine the underlying cost elements of telecommunications in order to contribute to the reform of the accounting rate system. At the request of participants in those seminars and workshops, BDT continued to support meetings at which developing country representatives applied the various methodologies for calculating tariffs to real situations. Part 3 contains reports of these meetings, as well as recommendations to Study Group 3’s on-going deliberations on tariff reform. In addition, Regional Tariff Groups met to review cost models for use in calculating more precisely actual costs. A number of additional papers give overviews of tariff-related questions, of significant interest to developing countries. Three more country case studies – Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Ukraine – are also contained in this volume, as a complement to the 11 published in 1999.

TABLE  OF  CONTENTS
BDT Seminars 1999
·	Fifth African Seminar on Costs and Tariffs – Dakar, Senegal.
·	Cost Study Workshops in Zambia and Tanzania  (Presentation at Fifth African Seminar on Costs and Tariffs).
·	Seminar on Liberalization and Private Sector Involvement – Tehran, Iran.
·	Sub-Regional Workshop on International Cost Calculation for Mediterranean Arab Countries – Damascus, Syria.
·	Workshop on Universal Service Price Setting – Prague, Czech Republic.
·	Workshop on Costing and Tariffs for the Gulf Countries and the Arab States.
·	Concluding Seminar on Costing and Tariffs for Arab Countries – Tunis, Tunisia.
Regional Tariff Groups’ Activities 1999
·	Meeting of the TAF Group – Dakar, Senegal.
·	Joint BDT/TSB Workshop on Tariffs and Costs for the TAF Group – Dakar, Senegal.
·	TAL Group Meeting – Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago.
·	TAS Costing Methodology: Background and Input.
Study Group 3 Meetings 1999
·	Guidelines for Bilateral Negotiations of Transitional Arrangements – Geneva, Switzerland.
·	December Meeting Report of the Rapporteurs’s Group on Question 12/1 – Geneva, Switzerland.

Review of Costs Issues
·	Accounting/Settlement Arrangements in International Telephone Services – Dr M. E. Fakhr El‑Din, ITU Senior Advisor for Arab States.
·	Tariff Setting Principles for Telecommunication Services – Dr M. E. Fakhr El-Din, ITU Senior Advisor for Arab States.
·	Price Regulation of Telecommunication Services: Principles and Practices – Sidharth Sinha, Indian Institute of Management, India.
·	Action Plans for Cash Flow Investment – Christian Carrier, ITU Consultant.
·	Raising Funds from Radiocommunications Licence Fees – Terry Jeacock, Radiocommunication Agency, United Kingom.
Case Studies
·	Barbados.
·	Trinidad and Tobago.
·	Ukraine.

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Article number:  16854	No.  293-00	
Cancels and replaces 287-00
Reforming the international accounting rate system, 1999

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