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Building Broadband Britain

Building Broadband Britain. David Edmonds Director General of Telecommunications. Oftel strategy. Focus of Oftel’s work is consumer Competition most likely to deliver consumer benefits Regulation necessary to encourage competition

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Building Broadband Britain

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  1. Building Broadband Britain David Edmonds Director General of Telecommunications

  2. Oftel strategy • Focus of Oftel’s work is consumer • Competition most likely to deliver consumer benefits • Regulation necessary to encourage competition • But recognise too much regulation can deter investment and innovation

  3. Broadband strategy: aims and objectives • Goal to achieve markets which are effectively competitive in absence of regulation • Promoting competition at all levels: infrastructure needed to deliver services; and provision of services • Delivering choice, quality, value for money in broadband access and services for consumers

  4. Delivering broadband • BT’s wholesale DSL services - over 100 DSL service providers • local loop unbundling • broadband interconnection • cable modems • leased lines • 3G, satellite, broadband fixed wireless access • means UK has one of the widest range of choice for broadband services in Europe

  5. BT’s IP Network IPStream Local Exchange BT’s ATM Network DataStream & VideoStream DSLAM Wholesale Products Local Loop Unbundling ATM Interconnection (First Switch) ATM Interconnection (Distant Switch) Interconnection Products Competition over BT’s DSL network

  6. Availability: how are we doing? • 60% of UK consumers & business within DSL enabled exchange areas. • Cable networks pass nearly 50% of UK households - cable modem services available to around 38% of all households • Digital TV offers one-way broadband - available to 99% households. Two-way satellite developing, although still relatively expensive • LLU available to meet demand. All exchanges open to competing operators • Leased lines (symmetric broadband) available throughout country.

  7. Take-up: Growth of UK Broadband connections, Dec 2000 to Dec 2001 Total broadband customers 335,000 Total cable customers 196,000 Total DSL customers 139,000

  8. Take-up: DSL connections since launch • UK DSL take up in line with take up in other countries at a similar stage of deployment

  9. The narrowband experience • UK has one of EU’s most advanced markets in Internet access with numerous service providers • Both flat-rate and metered available at some of the lowest prices in the world • Unmetered availability may have delayed take-up of broadband • But also provides migration path to broadband

  10. Broadband pricing - residential Kbit/s 60 1,000 • UK cable modem prices close to cheapest - but DSL expensive 50 800 40 all 600 £pm 30 DSL only 400 Bandwidth 20 200 10 0 0 Sweden UK US Germany France

  11. Broadband pricing - SME 350 • UK prices broadly in line with elsewhere - wider range of services seen in Germany / US 300 Bandwidth 250 Low 200 £pm medium 150 high 100 50 0 Sweden US Germany UK France

  12. Competition plus other initiatives • Work on broadband backed up with detailed research - regular benchmarking studies • Consumer awareness also important - Oftel study into consumer attitudes to Internet use/broadband • Supporting Government in projects to wire schools/libraries & remote regions

  13. Broadband in context:comparing other technologies

  14. Conclusion • Oftel’s objective is competition at all levels of value chain. Beginning to show results. • Roll-out later than other countries, but catching up. Take-up increasing significantly but still early days. • Regulatory framework in place to support further development, but Broadband not just a task for regulators and Government • Industry and consumers will play greatest role in determining future of Broadband Britain

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