Compliance with ITU-T recommendations, transit rates, roaming and roaming price...
Compliance with ITU-T recommendations, transit rates, roaming and roaming price transparency, taxation, investment, cost-oriented pricing, mutual agreement on routes, spam, taxation, accounting rates and fraud are some of the “key issues” for the SAMENA Telecommunications Council in revising the International…
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Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) later this year, an invitation to a roundtable discussion circulated to over 300 possible participants said. A June 14 roundtable talk on the ITRs was canceled after an ITU official canceled at the last minute (CD June 13 p13). The council has members in over two dozen countries located mainly in the Middle East, Africa and EurAsia, its website said. The website has become less specific about its number of members since June, when it reported 45 operators and dozens of other members. “Modernization” of the treaty “can leverage the sustainability of the current multi-stakeholders telecommunications model only through the support of decisive, consensus-driven and collaborative efforts,” a spokesman said in the email invitation. Close communication between “all stakeholders” will aid understanding of issues surrounding ITRs “and the amendments that could dramatically alter the operator community’s vision of the future as well as the global regulatory landscape,” he said. The roundtable is scheduled for Sept. 17 in Dubai. The SAMENA Telecommunications Council spokesman at our deadline recalled the invitation after an email query asking for clarification on the possible amendments.