The study course gives an overview and basic knowledge about Latvian, European, and world level legal acts, standardization, tariff, and cost calculation models, which are necessary working in the field of electronic communications. In the context of the study course wholesale and retail electronic communication service types, legal acts, and standards that regulate these services are analysed. The study course introduces limited resource assignment and usage principles, classification and definition of the electronic communication markets, and control models for quality of service evaluation. In the context of practical works, the detailed evaluation and use case definition of the norms of the legal action is foreseen.
Course contents:
- Introduction. Goals and directions of electronic communications policy.
- Legislative instruments that regulate the field of electronic communications.
- Administrative institutions in the field of electronic communications and their functions. Market entry conditions.
- Classification of electronic communications networks and electronic communications services.
- Supply of electronic communications services and provision of electronic communications networks.
- Users of electronic communications services. Standardisation in electronic communications.
- Electronic communications service markets and their analysis. Significant influence of businessmen on electronic comm.
- Regulation of electronic communications service tariffs. Electronic communications service costs and their allocation.
- Universal service in the field of electronic communications. Scarce resources. Leased lines. Conformity assessment.
- Interconnection of electronic communications networks. Access regulation. Interconnection regulation.
- Implementation of services related to numbering use. Telephone directory and inquiry services.
- Quality of electronic communications services. Provision of electronic communications services in emergency situations.
- Practical works.
