JORDAN NATIONAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY (2013-2017) Strategic Objectives Initiatives Actions Responsible Stakeholders Sector Investors. TRC, Council of Ministers Start Date & Duration months April 2013, on-going 1.2.1 Conduct reviews of relevant telecommunications markets and submarkets that reflect recent data and market conditions in order to ensure having an effective regulatory framework that mitigates the effects of dominance and protects competition and consumers 1.2.2 Adjust regulations to facilitate competition among communication providers through value added services. Such regulations would prevent incumbent operators from leveraging their existing infrastructure (copper, towers, ducts, etc.) to prevent the entry of new operators and would ensure access to and use of such infrastructure is available to others on a nondiscriminatory basis and on reasonable terms and conditions TRC, Telecom Operators and Service Providers TRC, Operators and/or service providers 1.3.1 Revise the Universal Service Policy, to ensure the correct balance between the freedom of operators to offer the MoICT, TRC, Telecom Operators and 1.1.7 Enabling the TRC to have the necessary technical and business expertise and capacity and to maintain a highly skilled team of sufficient size to fulfill its responsibilities in terms of creating a suitable regulatory environment and be able to effectively implement and enforce its decisions in a timely manner 1.2 Reviews of relevant telecommunications markets and submarkets 1.3 Service Revision Universal Policy Resources Required None  Number of TRC resources getting specialized technical and business/economics related training.  Number of new TRC hired with specialized technical and business/economics related skills. January 2015 Duration nine months 500 K JD  Publishing Market Review results. October 2013, duration six months None  Number of operators using existing incumbent/existing infrastructure and providing new services.  Increase in services provided by operators. 250 K JD  Updated Universal Service Policy Regulations revised after conducting market reviews, October 2015, duration six months 27 Key Performance Indicators December 2014, Duration