Workshop on International Mobile Roaming
8 June 2010 - 10 June 2010
Brisbane, Australia
The Workshop on International Mobile Roaming (IMR) was held from 8-10 June at Brisbane Convention Centre. The workshop was organised by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity and hosted by the Australian Government's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and wholly supported by an extra budgetary contribution from Australia .
The workshop aimed to engage APT members and regulators in discussion and through presentations, information sharing and round tables, consider and draft an action plan for the APT that addresses IMR issues, with particular emphasis on reducing high IMR costs.
The workshop identified the current structure of the IMR market, pricing structures (including taxation), consumer information and quality of services (including prepaid roaming, coverage and inadvertent border roaming). It will also engage participants in round tables to encourage discussion of how to address these issues.