Mobile Policy Handbook: An Insider\u2019s Guide to the Issues<\/em><\/a>. The handbook currently comprises 32 topics, ranging from spectrum harmonisation to mobile phone theft and international mobile roaming.<\/p>\nThe handbook is intended for government policymakers and industry regulators, mobile-sector professionals, journalists, analysts and external parties who have a stake in ubiquitous, well-functioning mobile telecommunications.<\/p>\n
Here, the GSMA\u2019s Chief Government and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Tom Phillips, explains the value of this new, \u2018living resource\u2019 that will serve as an important portal to mobile-sector issues and regulatory best practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One role of the GSMA is to articulate the common views of its global members on public policy and regulatory issues. Sometimes these views take the form of a \u2018consultation response\u2019, whereby the GSMA responds to a government\u2019s outreach to industry on a particular issue. Often, a commissioned report or white paper encapsulates an industry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1073],"tags":[],"algolia_discover_type":[6627],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","algolia_discover_type-article"],"yoast_head":"\n
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