Analytical Support for Ukrtelekom OJSC Privatisation (research example)

The project “Analytical Support for Ukrtelekom OJSC Privatisation: Creating Capacity for Regulatory Policymaking” was aimed at compensating the lack of research in Ukraine that analyses public policy options in the telecommunications field. The project was executed jointly by experts from ICPS and from the New Zealand Institute for Economic Research (NZIER) from February 2002 through March 2003. At that time, it was the third ICPS project commissioned by Ukrtelekom.

Project objective

This project was necessitated by the client’s interest in making Ukrtelekom’s privatisation succeed, which will be possible only if telecommunications regulation in Ukraine is properly substantiated, predictable, and meets the interests of potential investors. Simultaneously, the Ukrainian government does not have an adequate capacity to formulate a regulatory policy that meets these requirements. In order to achieve the set goal, special attention should be paid to the formulation of quality policy in the telecommunications sector, involving all stakeholders, as well as enhancing the institutional capacity for the policy analysis and strategic planning of the State Committee on Communications and Computerisation of Ukraine.

Organisation of project activities

Activities of the project were arranged among six working groups, each of which produced a draft paper (or a section of the draft paper) on Ukrainian state policy in a particular area, namely:

• communications sector development strategy;
• tariff regulation;
• ensuring universal accessibility of services;
• interconnection regulation;
• building an informational society;
• Legal Support Group.

With agreement from Ukrtelekom, the group members also included specialists from the State Committee on Communications and Computerisation of Ukraine, the International Centre for Policy Studies, and Ukrtelekom subsidiaries, as well as other communications operators and scientific research institutes. Leaders and coordinators were appointed for each group; additionally, representatives from the International Centre for Policy Studies in each group were responsible for preparing draft documents for discussion, as well as providing methodological support for the group work.

Major outputs

The following papers were devised in the course of the project:

• “Development Strategy for Ukraine’s Communications Sector”, describing European experience in the regulation of on-air and cable broadcasting, identifying measures for building an information society in Ukraine and a strategy for assuring public support of state policy in the area of communications and computerisation;
• “National Telecommunications Regulatory Policy”, with an analysis of options and recommendations for communications tariff regulation, universal service delivery, as well as interconnections between operators and ensuring universal accessibility of services;
• the Draft Law of Ukraine “On telecommunications” and an accompanying policy memo, written according to standards introduced and propagated by ICPS;
• *and the *“Strategy for the Development of Institutional Capacity to Regulate Ukraine’s Communications Market”, analysing the existing capacity of the state to regulate the communications services market, and making recommendations for building up this capacity.

The project created the capacity of the Ukrtelekom OJSC to develop and successfully lobby changes in government policy required for the company’s dynamic development.

Contents

	Economic Policy
	Policy Analysis
	Public Administration Reform
	Regional Policy and Local Self-government
	European Integration
	Development of NGOs
	Education Policy
	Services for business

Research for business

In detail: Analytical Support for Ukrtelekom OJSC Privatisation

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