Next Practices Live: Managing Regulation panel on June 23, 2020

COVID-19 has made it traditional methods for managing regulation and for engaging stakeholders. But the pandemic also made management and engage more important than ever! What have people tried? What have they learned? Two respected regulators joined Next Practices Live to share their thoughts and experiences. Both are recent PURC alumni. Commissioner Ram Prasad Dhital [...]

How will the pandemic change telecommunications markets? A conversation with John Reid on June 18, 2020

We receive a lot of questions about how the pandemic will impact telecommunications markets. This is a critical question. Since the 1990s, most of the world has relied upon competition to resolve issues of telecommunications deployment, prices, and quality. Will the pandemic change this? John Reid, the former CEO of Cable & Wireless, joined Next [...]

Ensuring water and sanitation during the pandemic: The experience of NWSC of Uganda on June 16, 2020

What do telecom operators and water operators have in common during the pandemic? Plenty, if you look at what National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has been doing in Uganda. NWSC has taken some interesting steps to manage during through COVID-19. NWSC has worked with Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) to finance expansion of water supply. [...]

Next Practices Live: ICT Working Group – How will the Pandemic Change Telecoms Regulation on May 21, 2020

We spend a lot of time talking about how the pandemic affects customers and service providers. But what about regulation? Is the pandemic teaching us things? Is it permanently altering policies, roles and relationships? John Reid, the former CEO of Cable & Wireless (C&W), explored these issues in Next Practices Lives. John has about 30 [...]

Next Practices Live: ICT Working Group – Ensuring Telecom Services during the Pandemic on May 14, 2020

Telecom companies and governments around the world are working fast to ensure that people have services both during and after the pandemic. But that is proving difficult because revenues are down, demand is up, and costs are up. And governments are sometimes asking operators to do more even while under lockdown restrictions. How are operators [...]