Location: London, United Kingdom

The MANAGEMENT OF REGULATORY AFFAIRS is a 5-day Training Program that provides participants with the basic knowledge, tools and techniques to successfully establish and manage the regulatory affairs function of a telecommunications operator.

The training aims at:

• Providing participants with an understanding of the global and competitive telecommunications environment and its impact on operators
• Presenting the basic concepts of regulation and of the role, responsibilities and organizational structure of the regulator
• Giving an understanding of how to establish and manage a regulatory affairs group within a telecommunications operator
• Providing the knowledge, tools and techniques necessary to deal effectively with regulatory and policy-making agencies
• Reviewing the current key issues in regulation

The training will tackle the following topics:

• The global and competitive telecommunications environment
  • Deregulation and competition
  • Globalization
  • New telecom players
  • New technologies and services
  • Global trends, impacts and challenges for operators
• Regulation and the regulator
  • The need to regulate
  • Principles of effective regulation
  • Role and responsibilities of the regulator
  • Organization of the regulator
• Regulatory affairs
  • Introduction
  • Importance
  • Role and responsibilities
• Establishing and managing the regulatory affairs function
  • Organizational structure
  • Profile of personnel
  • Staffing
  • Objectives
  • Relationship with other internal functions
• Dealing with regulatory and policy-making agencies
  • Regular communications
  • Ad hoc communications
  • Lobbying
• Current issues in regulation