Policy, Regulation, and Sector Reform Overview

This 12-week course taught by Dale Hatfield and others is the foundation course that covers privatization, foreign investment strategies, interconnection and European telecommunications law and policy. The course will be tailored for each region similar to the one currently developed for and being taught in Central and Eastern Europe:

Hatfield Lecture Series, Weeks 1-6

• Telecom Policy--Definitions, Objectives, Goals, Assumptions, Trends, Players
• Economic and Legal Rationale for Regulation in a Market Economy
• The Tools for Economic Regulation--ROR, Pricing, Costing, Tariffs, Quality
• Institutional Arrangements and Processes for Policy Making and Regulation
• Contemporary Issues in Telecommunications Policy and Regulation--Monopoly vs.
  • Competition, Interconnection, Mixed Monopoly/Competitive Environment,
  • Goals of Universal Service and Accelerated Infrastructure Development

O'Neill Lecture Series, Weeks 7 and 8

• Strategies of Sector Reform, Privatization, and Foreign Investor Participation
• Dialogue with Herbert Ungerer, EC DG IV, on European Policy
• Case Studies in Asia, Europe, Latin America

European Telecommunications Law, Policy, and Regulation, Weeks 9-11 Lecture Series of Cor Berben, Bernard Clements EC DG XIII

• History and Evolution from the Green Paper to Open Network Provision
• ONP Directives and Implementation
• Interconnection and Infrastructure Competition

International Perspectives, Week 12

• Presentations from the ITU, UNCTAD, and U.S.
• A. Louyanne, T. Ras-Work, P. Kurakov, B. Lanvin, P. Cowhey

Courseware components are:

• Curriculum Syllabus and Instructors Guide
• Video Tapes of Lectures (25 hours)
• Participant Manual with readings, exercises, assignments
• Lecture Narratives and Overheads
• Telecommunications Sector Reform in Asia - Toward a New Pragmatism, by Peter L. Smith and Gregory Staple, A World Bank Discussion Paper
• Sector Reform in Telecommunications, by Bjorn Wellenius et al, The World Bank
• A Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Telecommunications Sector, by Coudert Brothers and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development