Medicare Australia administers a range of health and payment programmes including Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and others. This report profiles the agency and its ICT organisation, major ICT projects and vendor relationships.
Report Table of Contents:
Overview
Fixed market overview
Mobile market overview
Broadband market overview
Next-generation access and network
National regulatory authority
Key legislation and regulation
3G licences
WiMAX licences
Retail regulation
The retail market
Retail access market
Wholesale line rental (WLR)
Local and national retail calls
Price caps on fixed retail and fixed-to-mobile retention
Retail international markets
Retail leased lines
Wholesale fixed regulation
Narrowband voice interconnection
Services subject to regulation
Cost model for RIO
Procedure for setting and reviewing charges
Network cap
Wholesale access
Local loop unbundling (LLU)
Fixed termination charges
Wholesale broadband services
Bitstream access
Network separation
Wholesale mobile regulation
Services subject to regulation
Mobile number portability
Mobile termination charges
Competition cases
TI and Wind are fined by Italian competition authority
Universal service
Universal service fund
Appendix
The EC's market definitions
List of Tables
Table 1: Award of 3G licences in Italy
Table 2: Multiple regional areas: blocks A and B
Table 3: WiMAX licences: value and beneficiary companies
Table 4: Retail price regulation applied to TI (residential services only)
Table 5: Fixed sector: services subject to regulation
Table 6: Price caps applying to fixed wholesale markets
Table 7: Fixed termination call price caps and glidepath (€ cents/min)
Table 8: Mobile sector: services subject to regulation
Table 9: MTR glidepath for mobile operators in Italy (€ cents/min)
Table 10: The EC's definition of seven markets to be analysed
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