1、 International Telecommunication Union ITU-T TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR OF ITU WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION ASSEMBLY Johannesburg, 21-30 October 2008 Resolution 26 Assistance to regional groups of Study Group 3 FOREWORD The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the
2、United Nations specialized agency in the field of telecommunications, information and communication technologies (ICTs). The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is a permanent organ of ITU. ITU-T is responsible for studying technical, operating and tariff questions and issuing Recom
3、mendations on them with a view to standardizing telecommunications on a worldwide basis. The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which meets every four years, establishes the topics for study by the ITU-T study groups which, in turn, produce Recommendations on these topics. ITU
4、2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written permission of ITU. WTSA-08 Resolution 26 1 RESOLUTION 26 Assistance to regional groups of Study Group 3 (Geneva, 1996; Montreal, 2000; Florianpolis, 2004; Johannesburg, 2008) T
5、he World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Johannesburg, 2008), considering a) that regional groups have been established within Study Group 3; b) that the activities of most of these groups have become increasingly important; c) that the study of tariff and accounting matters and the stud
6、y of most of the economic aspects of telecommunication services call for human and financial resources which are not always available to developing countries1; d) that, for determining rates, national network costs, at both international or regional ends of the relation, are one of the most importan
7、t components; e) that Study Group 1 of the ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) has been instructed to study, inter alia, the question of balanced national tariff structures in the developing countries; f) that the existing regional groups of Study Group 3 have, to a large extent, develo
8、ped their cost methodology; g) that the implementation of those existing cost methodologies needs to be pursued, while adapting them to evolution, calls upon the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau to cooperate with the Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau in ord
9、er to: i) continue to provide specific assistance to the current and future regional groups of Study Group 3 for pursuing the study of the methods and/or methodologies and criteria to be used in setting rates and collection charges; ii) encourage the continuing development of computerized applicatio
10、n tools related to their cost methodology by the members of the regional groups of Study Group 3; iii) take appropriate steps to facilitate meetings of the current and future regional groups of Study Group 3 and promote the necessary synergies between the two Sectors. _ 1These include the least developed countries, small island developing states and countries with economies in transition.
