Regulation

Defining and implementing regulations and sector-specific regulation

Regulation is a core TERA business and has been since its creation in 1995. Recognised as one of the world’s leading practices, TERA assists and advises clients as they implement and oversee general regulation as well as sector-specific regulation. TERA’s economic expertise in regulation applies to all issues, types of clients and sectors (telecommunications, transportation, Internet, postal, media, energy).

Public and private companies as well as regulators solicit TERA’s recognised regulatory expertise in bottom-up cost modelling of regulated activities: determining interconnection and interoperability costs between operators and systems, calculating cost-oriented tariffs to access essential infrastructure facilities and determine the mandatory costs of Universal Service and Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI), etc

Our key areas cover:

• Interconnection, interoperability, access and unbundling 
• Accounting separation 
• Cost-modelling 
• Cost-accounting 
• Regulated tariff offers
• Universal Service or general interest
• Bids for tender, auctions