ROWENA DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

460 Sattoria Building

Sunnyside
Pretoria, Gauteng
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Email: info@rowenainstitute.com
Website: http://www.rowenainstitute.com
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LICENSING IN CONVERGED ENVIRONMENT

2nd -13th March 2020

Johannesburg,

South Africa

Course Overview

This training program will showcase the participant’s different driver and perspectives of
convergence, how regulators have deal with convergence including international cases studies,
price regulation, and real licensing in a converged environment

Concepts discussed will enable regulators and operators to adopt strategies for developing a
sustainable communications service strategy

Key topics

• Examples of convergence and its key drivers

• Policy and regulatory approaches for addressing convergence
• Best practices and associated licensing and enforcement mechanisms in converged regulatory environment

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 • Key elements of successful price regulation
• Approaches to regulating and licensing mobile virtual network operators in a converged environment
• Strategies for creating sustainable universal communications services

Who Should Attend this Course?

The training is designed for telecommunications regulators, engineers, economists, managers

and other professionals with an interest in licensing, and particularly business managers who
need an overview of current licensing regimes in a converged environment

Course Outline:

▪ Introduction to Convergence
▪ Drivers for Convergence
▪ Objectives of converged regulation
▪ Key principles of converged regulation
▪ Licensing
▪ Best practice licensing for interconnection in a converged multi-operator, multi-platform telecommunication
markets
▪ Unified licensing framework and its relevance to regulating interconnections prices
▪ Licensing and Regulator’s duties
▪ Licensing implementation

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training approach is highly interactive. It uses a mixture of presentations by the facilitator
and by participant(s), group or individual exercises, use of case studies and role plays. These
proven learning techniques enhance understanding and retention of covered issues.

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