Petrus Consulting has detailed experience of the process of telecommunications liberalisation and deregulation. Our work with regulatory bodies has included the provision of Cost Accounting Support covering interconnection rates and accounting separation. We have also been responsible for in depth evaluations carried out on the cost accounting systems used to produce regulatory accounts.
Our experience includes preparing consultation papers, reviewing responses and preparing responses to the consultations on areas such a price control, tariff rebalancing, accounting methodologies, market power analysis, Universal service obligations and accounting separation. We have also formed part of a team evaluating competitive bids for telecommunications licences.
We have worked closely with a number of telecommunications regulators assisting them with the above issues and also with the establishment of their offices. Our establishment assistance covers areas such as recruitment, work programme development, sizing the tasks to be performed, identifying the staffing requirements in terms of internal or external resources, procuring external consulting assistance and project and programme management.