Background to the development of the assessment study - 2
{"Image DocumentName": "Background to the development of the assessment study - 2", "Image ImageDescription": "Liberalization of telecommunications in Africa has induced the need for nascent regulators to build up capacity in cost modeling and regulatory accounting for them to be in the situation of regulating tariffs of operators. ITU has responded to this need by running training workshops, proposing tools, such as COSITU, WB Cost Model and a didactic Cost Model (based on Excel), building up expertise within its network of Centers of Excellence (CoE). In this sense, Regional Organizations across Africa have started to harmonize cost modeling like ECOWAS, adopting on methodology standard for West Africa (the Supplementary Act on Interconnection refers to a Bottom-Up LRIC model).", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}