Preliminary program of the Forum

09.30 – 10.00 – Registration of participants and welcome coffee

Moderator: t.b.c.

• The problems of frequency control in terms of telecom operators activities optimization. Current situation analysis.
• Regulator’s position in matter of frequencies exchange between operators. Is it possible to move forward? 
• Spectrum sharing and exchange opportunities between telecom operators - the legal, technological and organizational aspects.
• Tools for frequencies sharing and exchange between operators. Practice, approaches, opportunities, economic issues. Operator’s point of view. Regulator’s point of view.
• Roaming, MVNO, other opportunities for operators networks interoperability.
• Interaction between operators in terms of typical issues of radio frequency spectrum operations (the exchange, conversion, release).
• Operators and regulators partnershis in LTE mobile networks.
• Operators association on the field of frequencies conversion and release. Legal and institutional aspects.
• Frequencies exchange economic effect for operators. What will subscribers get?
• Frequencies resale problems - perspectives approach. What principles could be the base of this model?
• Is it possible to bring to Russia a principle of technological neutrality and what it may give to telecom market? Market participants position. The regulator position.
• Global practices in frequency regulation, distribution and exchange.
  

Moderator: Valery Tikhvinskiy, chairman of ITT, RANS

• Networks infrastructure sharing approaches. Practical experience and cases studies.
• Methods of radio access networks infrastructure sharing (RAN Sharing).
• Experience in LTE networks joint construction and operation.
• Vendor’s proposals. Different manufacturers equipment interoperability issues.
• Legal aspects of networks active infrastructure sharing.
• Mobile networks services quality standard unification.
• Computing resources sharing interaction (data centers sharing).
• Outsourcing of network’s infrastructure.
• Outsourcing of network exploitation.
• Networks technical operations in joint model.
• Technical service outsourcing of communications networks equipment. Experience and prospects of development trends in Russia.
• Investments effectiveness of joint infrastructure management and operators business issues consulting.
• Analysis of Sharing resources Investments.
• Satellite technology use in mobile and fixed telecom operators networks.
• Network infrastructure sharing as a way to improve business performance. Market figures.
• Sharing networks – the European experience. International cases. 

Moderator: t.b.c.

• The role of the regulator in networks infrastructure combining at the national level.
• Promotion of communications infrastructure sharing through mechanisms of antitrust regulation. The introduction of a non-discriminatory access to infrastructure services, communications subjects of natural monopolies.
• Possible negative side effects of PDM practices implementations - reducing communication infrastructure, its technological capabilities, etc.
• Construction of new passive infrastructure. Typical issues.
• Unified communications infrastructure construction, operation and technological issues.
• Joint use of communications infrastructure civil law aspects (towers, telephone conduit, etc.). Practice. Key aspects.
• VOLS sharing problems. Harmonization problems with fiber-optic cable entry into the VOLS.
• The economic effect of the creation and sharing of antenna-mast structures, other elements of the passive infrastructure.