The seminar will provide attendees with:an overview of the relationship between competition law and the approach to economic regulation developed specifically for the telecoms sector;review of how recent industry trends are accentuating the increasing importance of competition law within the sector, from industry consolidation, related concerns about the need to address oligopolistic behaviour, and the forthcoming review of the telecoms regulatory framework which may see proposals for new forms of trigger for ex ante regulation;experience drawn from Cullen International’s database of competition law cases in the sector, including how parties can obtain different results by using competition law approaches compared with sector-specific regulation;in-depth analysis and understanding of the key competition law concepts applied in the telecoms sector and whether the two strands are converging or diverging;experience from real-life examples and cases from the European Union as to how parties can obtain different results by using competition law approaches compared with sector-specific regulation;a chance to discuss competition law issues with Cullen International's trainers, external experts and peers, and to compare experiences and different regulatory approaches.100% of past attendees would recommend this course to their peers.