Cost Modelling and Price Regulation
GOS Consulting has extensive experience in providing cost modelling and price regulation services to regulators, governments, investors and client companies such as equipment manufacturers, suppliers and telecommunications businesses.
Case Studies
- Jamaica - Cost-benefit analysis of indirect access
Assisted the Office of Utility Regulation in conducting an analysis of incremental costs. more - Ireland - Investigation of mobile call termination costs and charges for regulatory authority
Assisted the Irish regulatory authority in the investigation of the relevant costs. more
GOS Consulting has worked with operators, regulators and governments throughout the world providing detailed cost modelling, and retail price regulation assistance. Our vast experience and track record in this area has been gained through a variety of projects including:
- Modelling of costs using on a number of methodologies including Fully Allocated Costs (FAC)(historic and current costsing), Long Run Average Incremental Costs LRIC/LRAIC)and Total Element Long Run Incremental Costing (TELRIC).
- Setting cost-based interconnection charges
- Service costing and pricing
- Retail price modelling
- Development of price controls in regulated markets
- Modelling costs and benefits of regulated services e.g. Local Loop Unbundling
GOS Consulting has analysed the impact of price controls and regulation on a variety of business models and markets. We have worked in recently liberalised and developing markets as well as leading economies, modelling the impact on Next Generation Networks (NGN), 3/4G and wireless access networks.
Services
- Regulatory Policy and Strategy
- Market liberalisation and regulatory reform
- Development of Regulatory Authority
- Development and implementation of regulatory tools and guidelines
- Market Analysis and Competition Studies
- Defining relevant markets and conducting dominance analysis
- Definition of dominance criteria and market analysis process
- Investigation into competition disputes, including: anti-competitive pricing, argin squeeze, abuse of retail date in whole sale markets, and, other relevant competition investigations
- Access & Interconnection
- Development of Access & Interconnection Policy
- Development of reference offer for Access & Interconnection
- Development of inter-operator processes and procedures
- Development and documentation of interconnection services and interfaces, including: Number Portability, Local Loop Unbundling, Indirect Access (Carrier Selection and Carrier Pre-Selection, Wholesale Line Rental)
- Cost Modelling and Price Regulation
- Building and populating component costing models for fixed and mobile (FAC, HCA, CCA, LRIC,..)
- Development of cost-based charges
- Development of retail pricing regulation and index-related price caps
- Specification and implementation of Regulated Accounts and Accounting Separation
- Licensing
- Development of licensing framework
- Drafting of licence text
- Conducting licensing processes fixed/mobile, (including Fixed Wireless Access (i.e. WiMax) and 3G), beauty contest/auctions
- Public Consultations and Compliance
- Developing consulting framework
- Writing and conducting public consultations
- Reviewing consultation responses and development of policy recommendations
- Corporate & Business Strategy
- Business Management & Operations