The ITU-T Focus Group on Costing models for affordable data services is analyzing the supply-chain of telecom/ICT, the multiple cost models and pricing strategies used for mobile data services and Internet services and study the policy, economic, regulatory and standardization aspects related to cost models for affordable data services, including best practices of cost assessment methodologies and economic models. As part of its activities, the Focus Group is organizing a series of webinars on Cost Models for Affordable Data, in the first half of 2024, focused on the areas of interest under study.
The first episode webinar will focus on Infrastructure sharing best practices for affordable data services and will take place on 7 February 2024 at 2:00 pm CET.
The main objectives of the "Infrastructure sharing best practices for affordable data services" webinar will be to provide an overview of the best practices around infrastructure sharing arrangements based on examples from different countries and discuss the balance between incentivising efficient infrastructure investment without compromising competition with suggestions for recommendations that could considered for the Focus Group work in this area. One of the policy measures, which has helped in reducing the prices of telecom services, is the sharing of infrastructure. Infrastructure sharing (both passive and active) describes the process by which one or more operators share infrastructure to deliver a mobile service to end users. Recommendation ITU-T D.264 proposes a set of possible methods to help telecommunication providers save costs and enhance efficiency through the shared uses of the telecommunication infrastructure, including passive and active infrastructure sharing. The Recommendation indicates that there is a potential savings up to 30% with Passive infrastructure sharing and up to 50-60% for Active infrastructure sharing.
More information about the Infrastructure sharing best practices for affordable data services can be obtained on its website: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/webinars/amd-iic/20240207/Pages/default.aspx.
To attend the webinar please register online here: https://itu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L3huoZEOR8maLIYYzhfNQw
We look forward to your participation in the webinar.
FG CD Secretariat, ITU
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