Principles and processes of regulating satellite networks, spectrum allocation and management practices have also been brought out in the report, in some detail. There is a brief but highly informative section on the Internet, its current and potential applications. There is a great deal of diversity in the powers and functions of telecommunication regulatory authorities in different jurisdictions in the world today, both among developed and developing countries. As against the federal and state regulatory commissions in the United States, most of the developing countries have adopted a single tier structure with a federal regulator who also regulates access provision. Perhaps it is for this reason that the report is silent on some regulatory issues relevant to access provision.
Dispute resolution is another major issue in establishing an effective regulatory mechanism.
Perhaps this is not much of an issue in the US because of the established practices in the FCC and, therefore, it has not been dealt with in the report. The US experience of competition in telecommunication services is succinctly annotated in the report. This is relevant for the countries that have recently undertaken liberalisation in this sector. Competitive bidding promoted in the report as an effective way of assigning licences is not supported by experience everywhere. Even the US experience in auctioning of broadband spectrum in blocks for PCS licences resulted in significantly high bids with most operators reportedly finding it difficult to meet the high licence fee commitments.