Mr Pedro Seixas

ITU Expert

As an expert telecommunications regulation advisor, with over 25 years of consultancy experience, provides guidance and recommendations to Governments, National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) and operators, as well as to regional and international bodies on telecommunications policy and regulation, including regulatory and policy frameworks, access and interconnection, construction of cost models and conduct of public consultation to set call termination rates, fixed, mobile and cable landing station cost modeling, tariff regulations, process design for defining telecommunications markets, determining dominance and establishing appropriate remedies, and mobile and fixed licensing. His telecommunications regulation consulting activities, in recent years, specialized in bringing leading-edge regulatory expertise to developing economies in Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East and have also covered a wide range of other specific issues associated with regulation such as pricing, cost modelling, market analysis, sharing of infrastructure, ex-post regulation competition issues, broadband and more recent issues arising from the emergence of new players in the industry such as application service providers and Net Neutrality discussions. Several projects included the NRAs staff training on the use of cost models and ex-ante and ex-post regulatory case studies.