Regulators agree on best practice guidelines for infrastructure sharing

PATTAYA, Thailand – Regulators from around the world agreed on a set of best practices in regulatory measures that are aimed at sharing infrastructure resources to stimulate investment and growth in the ICT sector on Thursday, the last day of the 8th annual Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-08). The best practice guidelines aimed at fostering affordable broadband access through sharing and open access deal with pricing, efficient use of resources, spectrum sharing, licensing, neutral, fair and non-discriminating interconnection, transparency in information sharing, and sharing with other infrastructure industries, such as electricity, gas, water, sewage, railways to distribute the cost of...