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Global Voice Group Optimizes the Implementation of Innovative Funding Mechanisms for Emerging and Developing Countries
CAPE TOWN, September 3, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
The partner of choice for telecoms regulators
Governance technologies developed by Global Voice Group (GVG) for telecommunications
regulators enable emerging and developing countries to set up efficient and innovative
funding mechanisms.
With a global telecoms industry characterized by imbalances in the redistribution of
revenues generated by international communications, particularly between the North and the
South, GVG's solutions offer promising opportunities to countries that seek to obtain a
fairer share of these considerable revenues for their own development. A growing number of
States have imposed, or are planning to impose premiums on international communications
entering their territory in order to finance a variety of programs in domains such as
education, universal access, public television, ICTs, etc. GVG sets up the necessary
technologies and processes to optimize the collection of these premiums and control their
potential impacts for a positive net result.
The creation of innovative funding mechanisms has now become a priority for many
countries seeking new stable sources of revenue in order to finance their development
without going into more and more debt. Several organizations actively promote such
mechanisms, like the Leading Group on innovative funding for development composed of
international organizations (World Bank, OECD, African Development Bank, IMF) and more
than 63 nations.
Recommendation D-156 of the International Telecommunications Union (IUT), which deals
with network externality premiums, is also in line with the application of these
innovative funding mechanisms to international interconnection tariffs, although it does
not refer to them explicitly.
Based on additional revenues generated by GVG's projects in African countries (Ghana,
Congo, Liberia, the Central African Republic, Guinea), the monthly funds that could be
collected thanks to such an innovative funding mechanism is estimated at US .40 per
subscriber. As far as the whole of Africa and its nearly 600 million subscribers are
concerned, the implementation of a premium on international inbound calls would represent
an additional contribution of almost US$ 3 Billion per year. Furthermore, there is no
impact on tariffs paid by the local subscribers in countries where this measure has been
implemented, insofar as it only applies to the wholesale tariff for calls made from
abroad, mainly from Europe and North America.
Africa's needs in terms of development and infrastructure are considerable in all
areas. As Andrew Alli, President of the Africa Finance Corporation, pointed out: "We need
to look at new ways for financing infrastructure across the continent and bring
innovations into the instruments we currently have in place."
GVG's experience shows that innovation in financing is indeed possible, provided that
appropriate systems and procedures are implemented to optimize the new mechanisms.
About GVG
Created in 1998, Global Voice Group S.A. develops and implements innovative management
and monitoring solutions for telecoms regulation authorities. As a key investor and
partner, we optimize the regulators' capacities at all levels to help them take up the
current and future challenges of the sector, both at the national and international level.
Source: Global Voice Group
Contact: Michel Cauchy, Dir. Corporate Communications, Global Voice Group, +1-514-984-2928, mcauchy@globalvoicegroup.com
Global Voice Group Optimizes the Implementation of Innovative Funding Mechanisms for Emerging and Developing Countries
CAPE TOWN, September 3, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
The partner of choice for telecoms regulators
Governance technologies developed by Global Voice Group (GVG) for telecommunications
regulators enable emerging and developing countries to set up efficient and innovative
funding mechanisms.
With a global telecoms industry characterized by imbalances in the redistribution of
revenues generated by international communications, particularly between the North and the
South, GVG's solutions offer promising opportunities to countries that seek to obtain a
fairer share of these considerable revenues for their own development. A growing number of
States have imposed, or are planning to impose premiums on international communications
entering their territory in order to finance a variety of programs in domains such as
education, universal access, public television, ICTs, etc. GVG sets up the necessary
technologies and processes to optimize the collection of these premiums and control their
potential impacts for a positive net result.
The creation of innovative funding mechanisms has now become a priority for many
countries seeking new stable sources of revenue in order to finance their development
without going into more and more debt. Several organizations actively promote such
mechanisms, like the Leading Group on innovative funding for development composed of
international organizations (World Bank, OECD, African Development Bank, IMF) and more
than 63 nations.
Recommendation D-156 of the International Telecommunications Union (IUT), which deals
with network externality premiums, is also in line with the application of these
innovative funding mechanisms to international interconnection tariffs, although it does
not refer to them explicitly.
Based on additional revenues generated by GVG's projects in African countries (Ghana,
Congo, Liberia, the Central African Republic, Guinea), the monthly funds that could be
collected thanks to such an innovative funding mechanism is estimated at US .40 per
subscriber. As far as the whole of Africa and its nearly 600 million subscribers are
concerned, the implementation of a premium on international inbound calls would represent
an additional contribution of almost US$ 3 Billion per year. Furthermore, there is no
impact on tariffs paid by the local subscribers in countries where this measure has been
implemented, insofar as it only applies to the wholesale tariff for calls made from
abroad, mainly from Europe and North America.
Africa's needs in terms of development and infrastructure are considerable in all
areas. As Andrew Alli, President of the Africa Finance Corporation, pointed out: "We need
to look at new ways for financing infrastructure across the continent and bring
innovations into the instruments we currently have in place."
GVG's experience shows that innovation in financing is indeed possible, provided that
appropriate systems and procedures are implemented to optimize the new mechanisms.
About GVG
Created in 1998, Global Voice Group S.A. develops and implements innovative management
and monitoring solutions for telecoms regulation authorities. As a key investor and
partner, we optimize the regulators' capacities at all levels to help them take up the
current and future challenges of the sector, both at the national and international level.
Source: Global Voice Group
Contact: Michel Cauchy, Dir. Corporate Communications, Global Voice Group, +1-514-984-2928, mcauchy@globalvoicegroup.com