International telephony revenue settlement reform

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 681-696

  Thuswaldner, Andreas ^a  

^a INDUSTRY CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; PUBLIC POLICY; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ACCOUNTING REVENUE DIVISION PROCEDURE; SUBSCRIBERS;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032154871     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(98)00048-2     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Blue Book, General Tariff Principles, Charging and Accounting in International Telecommunications, Series D Recommendations 1988: CCITT Recommendation D. 150.
2. Stanley, K. B., International settlements in a changing global telecommunications market. Telecom Reform, Principles, Policies and Regulatory Practices; ed. W.H. Melody. Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, 1997.
3. Pyle, W. W., Arch, W. J. and Michael, Z. Fundamental Accounting Principles. Irwin-Dorsey Limited, Georgetown, Ontario, 1972.
4. Federal Communications Commission, In the Matter of International Settlement Rates; IB Docket No. 96-261; Report and Order, released 18 August 1997,
5. Regulation of International Accounting Rates, Docket No. CC 90-337, Phase II; Fourth Report and Order, released 3 December 1996.
6. Frieden M. R. The impact of call-back and arbitrage on the accounting rate regime Telecommunications Policy, 1997, 21, (9/10).
7. ITU Telecommunications Policy, op. cit. Ref. 1.
8. International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Telecommunication Regulations, Final Acts (WATC-88).
9. FCC International Telecommunication Regulations, op. cit. Ref. 4.
10. ITU International Telecommunication Regulations, op. cit. Ref. 2.
11. ITU International Telecommunication Regulations, op. cit. Ref. 4.
12. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Telecommunication Pricing Practices and Principles, A Progress Report. Information, Computer Communications Policy Committee, 1995.
13. ITU International Telecommunication Pricing Practices and Principles, op. cit. Ref. 1.
14. FCC International Telecommunication Pricing Practices and Principles, op. cit. Ref. 4.
15. Amoth, R. J. Accounting Rate Policy, Impact on Telecom Carriers in DCs;
16. Transnational Data and Communications Report; July/August 1994:
17. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) conducted a study of international traffic costs in 1990 entitled Follow-up Study of the Costs of Providing and Operating International Telephone Service Between Industrialized and Developing Countries. It concluded that developing countries face costs which are an average of 2.08 times higher than those faced by carriers such as AT&T.
18. ITU Follow-up Study of the Costs of Providing and Operating International Telephone Service Between Industrialized and Developing Countries op. cit. Ref. 1.
19. ITU Follow-up Study of the Costs of Providing and Operating International Telephone Service Between Industrialized and Developing Countries op. cit. Ref. 7.
20. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Policy Statement on International Accounting Rate Reform; 31 January 1996.
21. In the US, accounting rates are published on a regular basis: Consolidated Accounting Rates of the United States, Federalommunications Commission (FCC).