TAF Group

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TAF Groups achievements

• Study period 1997-2000

pape-gorgui.toure_at_itu.int Head, Financing
Strategies Unit (Former TAF Group Chairman)
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TAF membership

• 48 countries
• low teledensities
• large diversity of situations

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Main goals

• telephone services tariffs
• Build a common basis in order to help the
  international telephone network operators
  calculate/negotiate their settlement rates
• provide the telephone network operators with a
  computer tool in order to calculate the telephone
  services tariffs

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D.600R main pillars

• Take into consideration de differences within the
  Group
• practicability -gt type of data needed for both
  cost and traffic information
• interdependence of services cost
• includes access costs
• no more ceiling
• default and reference values -gt Client-Server

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Extension of the principles

• Satisfy the regulatory needs USO policy setting
• tariff rebalancing
• satisfy the needs expressed by regulators and
  operators as regards interconnection
• interconnection costing
• USO costs determination and reallocation
• USO policies simulation

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BDT support

• Practical cost, tariff and interconnection
  calculation workshops The TAF model have been
  applied to more than 20 countries and has been
  declared mature before the BDT engage the final
  software development
• individual support to operators and regulators
  (country case studies)
• commercial version of the TAF software to be
  available early next year

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Lessons learned on modelling costs

• The model acceptance depends on the availability
  of the mandatory data
• Usefulness to NRA provide means to avoid
  regulatory arbitrages
• Usefulness to operators

• Obtained upon usage of consistent data, the model
  based tariffs should guarantee reasonable profit
  to an operator
• field trials needed before final acceptance