Telecom Regulatory Environment

March 2010: New Report: TRE Assessment in Peru 2007-2009

Since 2006 DIRSI and LIRNE.NET have conducted Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) assessment studies in six countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region (Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Uruguay).

The Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) Assessment methodology was developed by LIRNEasia, a member of the global network LIRNE.NET, as an innovative approach to gaining insight on regulatory performance.

Simply put, a necessary condition for good telecom sector performance is investment, and investment decisions are influenced by perceptions of investment risk. Indeed, investment is highly correlated with sector regulation. However, regulatory performance is notoriously problematic to assess – especially in a quantifiable manner. TRE assessments seek to measure the perception of risk, which is the primary driver of investment decisions.

Using interviews and a questionnaire administered to a statistically significant cross-section of industry stakeholders and experts, the TRE assessment traverses six dimensions of regulatory risk, for both the fixed and mobile sectors: 

1. Market entry;
2. Access to scarce resources,
3. Interconnection,
4. Tariff regulation,
5. Regulation of anti-competitive practice,
6. Universal service obligations.

The TRE methodology focuses on the environment as a whole, rather than only on the regulatory agency. This broadens the scope and usefulness of the study to different actors.

Read or download the corresponding reports: 

[Chile]  [Ecuador]  [Guyana]  [Peru]  [Bolivia]  [Uruguay]