OECD Principles for Internet Policy Making

The OECD has been at the forefront of policy analysis on the digital economy since the start. It has also developed influential guidelines to help governments preserve the open and unified Internet that is needed to support economic growth, while at the same time manage privacy and security risks.

The Development of Fixed Broadband Networks

Enhancements to fixed broadband networks remain critical despite the growth in the use of wireless services. This report examines the development of fixed networks, barriers to their upgrading and regulatory challenges.

Access Network Speed Tests

This report examines the approaches being taken to measure broadband performance by reviewing information on official speed tests to date as well as their strengths and drawbacks in methodologies, emerging good practices and the challenges in undertaking a harmonised approach across OECD countries.

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• Broadband speed tests by country

Insights blog: Time to terminate termination charges on international calls?

A new OECD report finds empirical evidence that imposing mandatory higher charges for the completion (termination) of international inbound traffic suppresses demand. Moreover, governments that impose higher termination charges do not see their revenues increase proportionately.

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• International Traffic Termination

Broadband access network speed tests by country

The actual performance of Internet connections, particularly their speed, is critical to meeting various objectives set out by a range of stakeholders including consumers, policy makers and regulators. This page provides links to network speed tests in OECD countries.

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• Access Network Speed Tests

Insights blog: Tackling spectrum crunch - Is more sharing the answer?

An OECD report looks at new approaches to enhance spectrum management to make more spectrum resources available for wireless communication services to meet current and future demand and, at the same time, increase the efficiency in its use.

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• New Approaches to Spectrum Management

L’autorité colombienne de régulation des télécommunications doit être dotée de pouvoirs supplémentaires pour développer la concurrence, selon l’OCDE

La Colombie a beaucoup fait pour renforcer les règles régissant son secteur des télécommunications mais elle doit donner à son autorité de régulation davantage de pouvoir pour faire appliquer ces règles et ainsi développer la concurrence, notamment sur le marché très concentré de la téléphonie mobile, selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

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• Colombia telecoms regulator needs more power to increase competition, says OECD
• Es necesario dotar al regulador de telecomunicaciones de Colombia (CRC) de más facultades para fomentar la competencia, según la OCDE

OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Colombia

This review makes recommendations aimed at furthering regulatory reform and stimulating market competition and investment in the sector as a building block for the future development of the Colombian economy.

Consumer Policy Guidance for Mobile and Online Payments

This guidance addresses a number of key issues in the emerging mobile and online payment area, including the need to establish minimum levels of consumer protection across payment mechanisms, enhanced privacy and child protection, and standards for transparent and accessible information disclosures.

Related Documents

• Report on Consumer Protection in Online and Mobile Payments (OECD Digital Economy Paper 204)
• Consumers in the digital economy

The Internet in Transition: The State of the Transition to IPv6 in Today's Internet and Measures to Support the Continued Use of IPv4

This report considers the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 alongside the use of network technologies to prolong IPv4 use in the face of depletion of further IPv4 protocol addresses.