Regulating For Interconnection Management
Description
A training course to provide participants with the key concepts and important principles of the interconnection of telecom networks, including best practices to manage the commercial, administrative, operational and regulatory aspects of interconnection.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Use best practices to develop and manage profitable interconnections: costing, billing, testing, etc.
- Develop a Reference Interconnection Offer and complete interconnection agreements
- Analyze the different issues and challenges that operators and service providers face with wired, mobile and IP interconnection and use best practices to face these challenges
Target Audience
- Telecommunications managers and personnel responsible for national and/or international interconnections and carrier relations
- Billing, finance, marketing, engineering, operations and other personnel involved in interconnection-related activities
- Managers looking to complement their skill-set by gaining a good understanding of interconnection and carrier relations
Course Outline
Interconnection today
- Importance of interconnection
- Roles and responsibilities
- Wholesale services
- Managing interconnection
Reference Interconnection Offer (RIO)
- Document structure
- Content and services offered
- Best practices
Interconnection agreement
- Content
- Dispute resolution
- Negotiation
Billing processes and procedures
- Information measured and exchanged
- Establishment of accounts
- Settlement, payment and invoicing
- Data reconciliation
- Revenue assurance and fraud
- Best practices
Cost modeling
- Cost modeling – Wholesale services
- Long Run Incremental Costing (LRIC)
- Cost modeling in mobile networks
- Best practices
Negotiating with the regulator
Mobile and IP interconnection
- Mobile interconnection
- Roaming
- IP concepts and terminology
- IP interconnection models
- Best practices
The Admission Director
AFRICA INSTITUTE FOR CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT (AICD)
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SADC Institute of Commerce and Industrial Practice
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