GVF General Assembly

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• GVF General Assembly
• The GVF Regulatory Working Group
• Annette M. Purves
• Chairperson
• GVF- Regulatory Working Group

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Goals of Regulatory Working Group

• Create a bridge and a communications forum
  between regulators and the industry to exchange
  experience
• Develop and promote a best practice scenario
  tailored to specific requirements in a given
  country
• Make VSAT licensing information transparent and
  easily obtainable

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Main/on-going Tasks of Regulatory Working Group

• Offer Regulatory Workshops to NRAs and Ministries
• Establish a database with easy to access
  licensing information
• Develop VSAT Policy Guidelines in response to
  request by regulators

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Other tasks

• Provide input on spectrum consultations
• Promote successful regulatory tools, etc. One
  Stop Shopping licensing process
• Help form regulations by participation in
  regional fora

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GVF RWG and Regulatory Authorities

• GVF RWG cooperates with regulatory authorities on
  global, regional and national basis
• Global ITU
• Regional APT, CEPT, CITEL,
• National All NRAs and Ministries interested

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RWG and other industry groups

• The GVF RWG cooperates with other national and
  regional industry groups
• Regional Satellite Action Plan (SAP), European
  Satellite Operators Association (ESOA), etc.
• National China Satellite Forum, Satellite
  Industry Association (SIA), VSAT Service Provider
  Association (VSPA), etc.

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GVF RWGs way of working

• Monthly conference calls on ongoing issues
• e-mail exchange
• Annual meeting
• Regulatory Workshops with national or regional
  administrations (with or without direct industry
  participation)

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GVF Regulatory Workshops

• Free of charge resource for regulators
• Can be regional or national context
• With direct industry participation or without
• Other experts or regulators can be invited
• Look at experience gained in other countries
• Take specific country requirements into account
• Open Dialogue - Discussion remains within group

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Specific Examples of working with regulators

• China Arranged MII/FCC Meeting, Workshop
• Russia Establish Interdepartmental Working Group
  with various regulatory players
• Saudi Arabia Tender for VSAT licenses
• Brazil Worked with regulator ANATEL to develop
  Blanket Licensing

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Russia

• Establishment of Interdepartmental Working Group
  VSAT (IWG VSAT)
• Simplification of licensing procedures
• Exemption from individual license according to
  ERC decision
• Licensing fee reductions implemented

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Saudi Arabia

• Regulator approached GVF on how to to liberalize
  market
• GVF consulted regulator
• Regulator issued a tender for VSAT licenses
• A number of companies are short-listed to provide
  competitive services

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Brazil

• Regulator ANATEL invited GVF for 2-day workshop
• On request of ANATEL GVF also invited selected
  other regulators
• Resulted in Blanket Licensing
• Both regulator and industry welcome this
  development

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China

• In 2001, GVF Funded MII Delegation to USA
• Co-ordinated MII, FCC Meeting
• To Discuss
• Satellite Regulation
• Implications of WTO Accession
• On Chinas Satellite Regulations