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Ensuring Competition & Growth in Next Generation Network (NGN)

Presented by Melinda Tan

23 March 2006

2© 2005. IDA Singapore. All Rights Reserved.

Singapore’s Approach

These are the regulatory principles Singapore has used since it fully liberalised its market in 2000:

Proportionate regulation & reliance on market forces

Promotion of effective and sustainable competition, including at facilities-level (equal access at all levels)

Transparent & non-discriminatory

Technological neutrality



Proportionate regulation & reliance on market forces

Regulatory forbearance where appropriate

Examples: IP TelephonyIn June 2005, Singapore finalised its regulatory framework for VoIP:

Licencees can use 8-digit level “3” numbers and are:

not required to provide number portability, emergency service connection, directory enquiry and printed directory services, or conform tp QoS levels set by IDA

Must provide clear information about service limitation to user



Promotion of effective and sustainable competition

including at facilities-level (equal access at all levels)

Examples: National Infocom Infrastructure (NII)In March 2006, Singapore announced its plan to develop a Next Gen NII to cater for the growing demand in network traffic. It aims to:

enable facilities based competition- open the door for players from the entire telecommunications value chain to participate in Singapore’s enlarged market

cater for new bandwidth-intensive services and emerging applications such as IP video telephony, immersive digital media, HDTV and IPTV

provide seamless connectivity throughout the island



Transparent & Non-Discriminatory measures

Examples: NII - public-private partnership

Singapore will adopt a public-private partnership approach to set up the NII

Wired Network – pending industry’s feed back, Singapore will release the Request-For Concept in the next few weeks.

Wireless Network – the Call-For-Collaboration (CFC) was release on 9 March 2006.



Technology Neutral

Examples: Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) and National Infocomm Infrastructure (NII)

Singapore does not specify what technologies should be used in our consultations, auctions, Request-for-Concept or Call-for Collaboration. It is up to the industry.


Emerging Issues – Short-Term

Classifying and licensing a large number of new services in an appropriate manner.

Addressing resource issues: spectrum, numbers, ENUM policies, number portability.

Law enforcement and national security issues

Technical standards and requirements for interoperability and interconnection


Emerging Issues – Long Term

Realign the regulatory structure to meet the changing need of the convergent market (telecommunication, multi media and content)

Establish a balance between the regulator’s role in setting regulatory framework and industry driven factors in determining NGN-based competition.


Thank you

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