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Kalba International has assisted a wide range of government, corporate and multilateral clients with respect to the formulation of legislative and regulatory frameworks as well as specific policy and regulatory issues and studies. Our government and multilateral clients have included the CRTC (Canada), European Commission, the FCC, InterAmerican Development Bank, Industry Canada, ITU, Ministry of Communications (Tanzania), Ministry of Public Administration and Information (Trinidad and Tobago), National Science Foundation, Office of the Governor (Puerto Rico), Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Jordan), Telestyrelsen (Sweden), and the World Bank.
The broad context of many of the cases we undertake in our Regulatory Framework practice are reflected in the following specific cases. For example, we have:
- Co-developed a regulatory toolkit for infoDev (World Bank) and the ITU on Competition, Interconnection and Pricing Regulation, in association with NERA and Castalia Strategic Advisors. In the process we assessed the regulatory issues and implications raised worldwide by VoIP, including the preparation of case studies on VoIP regulation in developed and developing countries.
- Served as Economic Advisors to the CRTC (Canada) during a key proceeding on regulatory forbearance in local telephone services. The proceeding examined a wide range of issues related to the conditions calling for forbearance (e.g. definition of adequate competition, applicable service regions, etc.) as well as the regulations that should be suspended, such as tariff controls, marketing restrictions, and QoS standards as forbearance is implemented. We provided independent reviews of the economic submissions of stakeholders in the proceedings, including incumbent carriers, CLECs, cable TV operators, VoIP providers and consumer groups.
- Advising a developing country government on a wide range of policy matters, including broadband and universal service policy development, review of telecommunications legislation, design of international service gateways to foster wholesale competition, and proposed tax and other incentives for domestic ICT development.
We have also helped a regulator develop a framework for spectrum management that addresses the issuance of new operating licenses, the re-farming of spectrum bands, the determination of license renewal fees, and the organization of spectrum auctions.
Our private sector regulatory work has focused on license bid preparation (including for auctions), support in preparing regulatory and judicial filings, securing of satellite landing agreements, and assessment of proposed ownership consolidations. In conjunction with Harvard University’s Program on Information Resources Policy we prepared a multi-volume study of the economic, political, regulatory and legislative aspects of state regulation of cable television.