In order to analyse and regulate markets, powerful tools of economic regulation are required, such as operators' cost models, which have been developed for fixed telephony and mobile telephony with a view to defining the terms of reference offers, avoiding price squeeze or calculating the cost of the universal service, among other things.
Following consultation of the players involved, BIPT takes decisions in which the obligations imposed in the framework of the market analyses are made concrete or which aim at solving more specific problems, in order to improve the functioning of the market.