Location: The Fullerton Hotel, 1 Fullerton Square, Singapore

Policy makers and regulators should consider how to sustain and ensure fair, open and effective competition while Next Generation Network (NGN) deployments are proceeding rapidly. NGNs will require regulators to shift their emphasis from promoting infrastructure based competition to enabling services based competition. The challenge to policy makers and regulators is not the design of the next generation regimes but the evolution and transition management.

Ovum research on NGN cost modeling highlights the issues faced by regulators ensuring NGN service pricing is appropriately cost based according to established regulatory costing principles. NGN regulatory costing and service pricing remains an open issue still being explored by regulators and industry.

Ovum research shows that the Government facilitated approach to NGN deployment is gaining increased recognition as a means of ensuring policy, regulatory and commercial alignment in the national interest. The layered separation approach adopted in Singapore is an example evolving to an NGN regulatory framework. The introduction of contractual constraints through the tendering process can give regulators new control mechanisms, however, it is likely that regulators will still need to employ costing, price or equivalence determination practices.
To view the agenda of the conference click here (http://www.ovum.com/client/programme.pdf)

Key areas covered in the workshop include:

• Strategies of NGN commercial developments
•  NGN Service Delivery
•  NGN bottlenecks and competitive implications
•  Introduction to NGN modelling
•  NGN cost-based and value-based pricing
•  Applicability of LRIC and LRIC+ to NGN
•  NGN fair access charges
•  NGN policy and regulatory changes
•  NGN and its transition - implications to regulators and operators

Contact:
Tanisha Kuckreja
Email: tak@ovum.com
Phone: +613 9601 6723