Catonia Case

Authorization is a way of encouraging creativity in the communications space, and the stimulation of competition through lowered barriers of entry, to enable more entrants to participate in a market. According to the ITU, a well-designed framework for authorization creates a foundation for a healthy, competitive information and communication technology sector. The main difference between the perceptions of licensing and authorization is that a licensing-based approach retains the state’s diplomacy to approve any particular request to provide a service while an authorization-based approach permits any prospective participant to enter the market, provided that it complies with certain standard conditions. With a licensing model, the state is in charge and has …show more content…
In that case, service neutrality empowers operators to offer a variety of different services and applications, tailored to fluctuations in market demand.
Convergence of licensing options is imperative to a young and fragile infrastructure as it reduces the complexity of authorization to new market participants. Convergence of licensing options in Catonia will have the following benefits:
• It will encourage the growth of new applications and services.
• It will simplify the present licensing procedures to alleviate market entry and operations.
• It will create a set of stand-alone regulations so that issues such as universal service, interconnection, spectrum, quality of service, and number allocations can be addressed expansively.
• It will guarantee regulatory flexibility to concentrate on market and technological developments.
• It will make certain that there is efficient exploitation of network resources, in order that individual networks may be used to supply a wide range of ICT