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Autore: | Dymond Andrew <1947-> |
Titolo: | Telecommunications challenges in developing countries : asymmetric interconnection charges for rural areas / / Andrew Dymond |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | ix, 39 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm |
Disciplina: | 384.6/4 |
Soggetto topico: | Telephone - Developing countries |
Telephone - Rates - Developing countries | |
Telecommunication - Developing countries | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- General -- The Starting Hypothesis -- The Challenges -- 2. Basic concepts -- Interconnection: Operator-to-Operator Payments -- Who Pays the Additional Charges for Asymmetric Interconnection? -- Types of Interoperator Financial Interconnection Arrangements -- Theoretical Justification for Asymmetric Interconnection -- Operator Investment Incentive -- 3. Country Experience and Precedents -- Fixed Network Precedents -- The Precedent of Fixed-Mobile Asymmetrical Interconnection -- 4. Main Issues Related to Networks and Costs -- What Networks Could be Considered for Asymmetric Interconnection? -- Should Asymmetric Interconnection Apply to Fixed and Mobile Operators? -- Could Asymmetric Interconnection Distort Investment Patterns? -- Does Implementation Require a Detailed Cost Study First? -- Should Asymmetric Interconnection Reflect or Follow Peak/Discount Rates? -- 5. Tariff Regulation Related to Asymmetric Interconnection -- In Favor of Revision to "Calling Party Pays" -- Counterarguments -- Additional Issues to Consider -- Would Asymmetric Termination Charges Create Undesirable Arbitrage? -- Rate Postalization -- Conclusion on Tariffs -- Downstream Beneficiaries-Should They be Regulated or Licensed? -- 6. Numbering and Billing Issues -- What Prerequisite Changes in the Numbering Plan are Required -- What Modifications to Intercarrier Billing Would be Required? -- 7. Relating De-averaged Interconnection to Universal Access Policy -- Comparison of North American and Chilean Financial Models -- Conclusion -- 8. Summary and Next Step -- Study Outcome -- Next Step -- References -- FIGURES -- Figure 1 -- Figure 2 -- Figure 3 -- TABLES -- Table 1. Is Rural Network Investment Incentive Created -- Table 2. Chile, Access Rates. |
Table 3. Mobile-based Public Access Projects. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Telecommunications challenges in developing countries |
ISBN: | 1-280-08480-4 |
9786610084807 | |
1-4175-0133-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820057703321 |
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