The 3rd Workshop on Regulatory Challenges in the Electronic Communications Market

Zagreb, Croatia
Hotel International, Miramarska 24

June 27, 2013

This is the final workshop program, as of June 17. The workshop is a part of ConTEL and open to all registered ConTEL participants.

Time

The 3rd Workshop on Regulatory Challenges
in the Electronic Communications Market

10:30-11:00

Registration
11:00-12:30

REGWS-1:
Economic and legal issues for the Digital Agenda

Chair: Gordan Ježić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Evolving Challenges and Legal Safeguards in Processing User Data in Electronic Communications
Nina Gumzej (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Econometric Analysis of Demographic and Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Broadband Adoption in Croatian Rural Counties
Visnja Krizanovic (J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia); Drago Zagar (J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia); Kresimir Grgic (J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia)

Optimal Allocation of State Aid Funds for Deployment of Next Generation Broadband Networks
Tomislav Majnaric (Lator, Croatia)

Valuation of Long-Term Tangible Asset under LRIC Methodology
Ivana Dražić Lutilsky (University of Zagreb & Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia); Marina Ivic (Associate of Department for Telecommunication, Croatia)
12:30-13:30

Lunch break
13:30-15:00

TA-1 Plenary session:

Keynote Talk – Henning Schulzrinne: Transitioning the PSTN into the 21st Century
15:00-15:30

Coffee break
15:30-17:00

REGWS-2:
On-line tools and M2M challenges

Chair: Mario Weber (HAKOM, Croatia)

E-Licensing in the Republic of Croatia
Danijel Vidaković (HAKOM, Croatia); Ana Katalinic Mucalo (Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, Croatia)

Can HAKOMetar be Used to Increase Transparency in the Context of Network Neutrality?
Mario Weber (Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, Croatia); Velimir Svedek (HAKOM – Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, Croatia); Zdravko Jukic (Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency & HAKOM, Croatia); Ivana Golub (CARNet & CARNet, Croatia); Tihana Zuljevic (CARNet Croatia, Croatia)

Machine-to-Machine: Emerging Market and Consequences on Existing Regulatory Framework
Damjan Katusic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia); Andro Marčev (HAKOM – Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, Croatia); Robert Vulas (Croatian Post and Electronic Communication Agency, Croatia); Gordan Jezic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Machine-to-Machine Service Enablement – Device Data Store Model
Vanesa Čačković (Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia); Željko Popović (Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia); Miguel-Angel Monjas (Ericsson España, S.A., Spain)
19:30

ConTEL 2013 conference dinner

 

Call for papers

(The call for papers is closed.)

[Download this Call for Paper in PDF]

The workshop series on regulatory challenges in the electronic communications market was initiated at the 19th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks – SoftCOM 2011, under the name  „The Electronic Communications Regulatory Challenges – Experiences from the Looking to the Future  Project“. The project Looking to the Future is a collaborative project led by the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency HAKOM, involving three Croatian universities – in Zagreb, Split and Osijek – with study programs in the areas of telecommunications and electronic market economics, and the representatives of telecommunication industry and the operators in Croatia. The objective of the project is to recognize and foresee potential problems in the electronic communications market and to avoid them through creating a proactive regulatory environment. The second workshop in the series was held at SoftCOM 2012 in Split, on September 11-12, 2012, and the one in 2014 is planned to return to Split again.

The 2013 workshop, planned within the 12th International Conference on Telecommunications ConTEL 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia, is a full-day event encompassing an invited session devoted to the „Looking to the Future“ project and an open-call session, addressing a broad range of topics related to regulatory reform and impact of NGN (listed below).

Sessions:

  1. Invited session: Experiences from the project „Looking to the Future“
  2. Open call session: Regulatory reform: Impact of NGN

Topics of interest include

  • Technology for Next Generation Network
  • Next Generation Network and Regulatory Challenges
  • Interconnections in Next Generation Network
  • Licencing in Next Generation Network
  • Next Generation Access and Investment
  • Innovation and Next Generation Network
  • Broadband Ecosystem for Rural Areas
  • Approach to Digital Dividend
  • Network Neutrality
  • Transition to IPv6
  • Universal services vs. universal access
  • Radiocommunications and Spectrum management
  • Services and regulation
  • QoS in Next Generation Network
  • Infrastructure vs. service competition
  • Market power and Next Generation Network
  • Customer protection

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit novel, previously unpublished full papers for consideration.

For paper formatting, style, and submission guidelines, please refer to paper formatting instructions.

You may also see the detailed paper submission instructions, or go directly to paper submission in EDAS.

The paper submission deadline has been extended to March 15, 2013.

All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the Workshop proceedings and in IEEExplore.

Steering Committee:

Antun Carić
Zagreb

Danimir Gulin
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Economics and Management

Ignac Lovrek
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Dinko Begušić
University of Split
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture

Local Organizers:

Gordan Ježić
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Mario Weber
Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency