A 5-day Training Program to provide participants with the fundamental concepts and principles of cost modeling methodologies in telecommunications.

• Present an overview of interconnection regulation and the key concerns of regulators in evaluating the adequacy of cost modeling methodologies
  
• Present the drivers, benefits and issues of cost allocation and costing
  
• Examine what telecommunications costs must be evaluated
  
• Define key costing terms and concepts
  
• Provide an understanding of the most important cost models used in telecommunications, including FAC and LRIC
  
• Discuss the pros and cons of different costing methodologies
  
• Review some real world examples of the application of cost models in telecommunications
  
  

• Telecommunications managers and personnel responsible for evaluating costs and establishing prices/tariffs

• Managers looking to complement their skill-set by gaining a good understanding of cost modeling methodologies in telecom
  

• The Training Programs combine expert presentations, workshops, case studies and discussions on real-life situations faced by participants.

• Complete training material is provided to all participants for future reference and follow-up action plans.

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• Global and competitive telecommunications environment
  - Deregulation
  - Globalization
  - Market evolution and trends
  - New telecom players
  - New technologies and services
  - Falling telecommunication costs
  - Challenges, opportunities and impacts

• Interconnection regulation
  - Relevance of interconnection
  - Types of interconnection
  - Regulator’s role
  - Interconnection best practices
  - RIOs and interconnection agreements
  - Interconnection trouble spots

• Cost allocation
  - Definition
  - Benefits
  - Issues

• Evolution of costing methodologies
  - Historical background
  - Economic methods versus cost-based methods
  - Principle of cost causality
  - Cost nomenclature
  - Accounting separation
  - Activity-based costing analysis

• What to cost
  - Characterization of various costs
  - Switching and service platforms
  - Access
  - Transport
  - Addition of data transfer services
  - Incumbent operator versus new operators
  

• Costing methods
  - Review of economic methods
  - Cost-based methods
  - Cost-based method challenges
  - Tools

• Regulatory concerns

• Long Run Incremental Costs (LRIC)
  - Definition of terms
  - Definition of increment
  - LRIC versus regulatory concerns
  - Major assumptions of LRIC
  - LRIC - Methodology
  - Top down LRIC
  - Bottom up LRIC
  - Hybrid LRIC
  - LRIC - Summary
  - Shortcomings and pitfalls of LRIC

• Cost modeling issues
  - Challenges
  - Future trends

• Real world examples of the application of cost models
  

• The price is per person and includes tuition, materials, lunches and refreshments during the training program.
• The price does not include flights and in country travel to get to and from venue.
• Registrants are responsible for paying all taxes claimed by any authority of their home country.

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