Bridging Government NBN Policy to End-User Experience
Dr Nguyen Duc Principal – EagleComms Advisory
Melbourne, Australia
ACS-TSA Lunchtime Presentation, Melbourne, 26 June 2012
Presentation Outline
Australian Labor Government NBN Policy (pre-Sept. 2013).
Taxpayer-Funded Broadband Subsidies.
Global Broadband Rankings.
End-User NBN Questions and Expectations.
NBN Stakeholder Groups.
Bridging NBN Policy to End-User Experience.
Community Engagement, Education, Communication.
What’s next then?
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Australian Labor Government NBN Policy
(pre-Sept. 2013)
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National Broadband Network (NBN)
Govt (Taxpayer) NBN Equity: A$27.5 billion.
NBN Capex: A$35.9 billion.
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Government-controlled, Australian taxpayer-funded, wholesale-only, open-access, superfast broadband network with fixed-line access monopoly* using:
Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP): 93% (100 Mbps peak, scalable)
Fixed Wireless: 4% (at least 12 Mbps peak)
Satellites: 3% (at least 12 Mbps peak)
* Between NBN Co’s 121 Points of Interconnect (POIs) and retail customer/end-user premises.
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NBN and the Retail Service Providers
Retail Customers End-User Premises
NBN Co Fibre
Access & Aggregation
Network
Metro & Regional
Rural & Remote
Points of Interconnect
PO
Is
Wholesale-only Carrier with Fixed-Line Access
Monopoly*
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Retail Service Providers (RSPs)
(Access Seekers)
etc.
Taxpayer-Funded Broadband Subsidies
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Taxpayer-Funded Broadband Subsidies and Country Geo-Demographics
NOTE: Expanded from Communications Chambers (UK), March 2011, with additional data on Singapore and Canada and June 2011 geo-demographics for countries listed.
COUNTRY
BROADBAND
SUBSIDY PER CAPITA
TOTAL AREA (thousand
square kms)
POPULATION
(million)
POPULATION DENSITY (persons/
square km)
LEVEL
OF URBANISATION
Australia A$1,309 7,741 22.3 2.9 89%
New Zealand A$260 268 4.3 16.0 86%
Singapore A$155 0.712 5.2 7,303 100%
France A$67 644 65.3 101.4 85%
USA A$51 9,827 313.2 31.9 82%
UK A$22 244 62.7 257.0 80%
Canada A$6 9,945 34.0 3.4 81%
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Why does the Australian Labor Govt want to fully fund NBN with taxpayers’ money?
1. Government’s Digital Economy Policy (May 2011):
Australia to be among the top 5 OECD countries by 2020 in percentage of households connected to broadband.
2. Re-structuring the Australian Telecommunications Industry:
Creating a new fixed-line access monopoly (namely, NBN Co), with 93% fibre access and 7% with fixed wireless and satellite access; and
Paying Telstra and Optus to get out of their fixed-line telecommunications access networks.
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Global Broadband Rankings
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Global FTTH/FTTB Rankings (Dec 2011)
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Australia, New Zealand,
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, etc.
FTTH
Fibre-to-the-Home
FTTB
Fibre-to-the-Building
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Singapore
(14th)
South Korea
(1st)
Turkey
(27th)
USA
(13th)
France
(26th)
UAE
(2nd)
Malaysia
(22nd)
China
(21st)
Japan
(4th)
Italy
(28th)
Canada
(29th)
Romania
(30th)
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Taxpayer-Funded Broadband Subsidies and Country Geo-Demographics
NOTE: Expanded from Communications Chambers (UK), March 2011, with additional data on Singapore and Canada and June 2011 geo-demographics for countries listed.
COUNTRY
BROADBAND
SUBSIDY PER CAPITA
TOTAL AREA (thousand
square kms)
POPULATION
(million)
POPULATION DENSITY (persons/
square km)
LEVEL
OF URBANISATION
Australia A$1,309 7,741 22.3 2.9 89%
New Zealand A$260 268 4.3 16.0 86%
Singapore A$155 0.712 5.2 7,303 100%
France A$67 644 65.3 101.4 85%
USA A$51 9,827 313.2 31.9 82%
UK A$22 244 62.7 257.0 80%
Canada A$6 9,945 34.0 3.4 81%
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End-User NBN Questions and Expectations
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End-User NBN Questions and Expectations
What will happen to my current telecommunications services and facilities, when I get an NBN fibre access connection: At home? At my shop? At my farm?
What do I need to do at home/my shop/my farm?
Can I connect my fixed-line telephone(s) and fax machine to the NBN equipment via the existing copper wiring at home/my shop/my farm)?
Can I connect my office small business system (aka key system) to the NBN directly? Can I connect my EFTPOS terminal to the NBN directly? Can I connect my Pay-TV, security monitoring, alarm and telemetry systems to the NBN directly? Do I have to rewire my home/my shop/my farm?
Can I have NBN fibre access, instead of fixed wireless access? Can I have two NBN fibres to my home/my shop/my farm?
How much more will I pay under the NBN for my current telecoms services and facilities?
What about Broadband Universal Service Obligation (e.g. BB-USO at 12/1 Mbps)?
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Moving from Telstra PSTN Copper World to NBN Co Internet Protocol Fibre World
Time 2021 23 June 2011
Telstra
PSTN/FNN
Copper World
NBN Co
Internet Protocol
Fibre World Fibre IP
Capabilities
& Coverage
FNN: Full National Number
Copper PSTN
Capabilities
& Coverage
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NBN Home Wiring
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Source: News.com.au
(20 Aug 2010)
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NBN Stakeholder Groups
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NBN Stakeholder Groups
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Regulators
Policymakers
NBN Co
Industry Groups
Community Groups
Residential
Small & Medium Businesses
Corporate & Government
Metropolitan
Regional
Rural
Remote
END-USERS
COMMUNITY
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NBN – Moving Forward
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Regulators
Policymakers
NBN Co
Industry Groups
Community Groups
Need to work collaboratively
to enhance NBN
understanding, benefits and solutions for
end-users and the community
in general.
Residential
Small & Medium Businesses
Corporate & Government
Metropolitan
Regional
Rural
Remote
END-USERS
COMMUNITY
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NBN – Moving Forward
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Regulators
Policymakers
NBN Co
Industry Groups
Community Groups
Residential
Small & Medium Businesses
Corporate & Government
Metropolitan
Regional
Rural
Remote
END-USERS
COMMUNITY
It’s all about End-Users and Community Engagement,
Education and Communication !
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What’s Next Then?
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What’s Next Then?
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Super-Fast and Ultra-Fast Broadband
Connectivity and Capacity
Next-Generation Applications and
Services
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Innovation. Innovation. Innovation.
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Horse drawn carriages
in Main Street, Port Fairy, Victoria
French TGV speed record, 3 April 2007
French TGV record-breaker on River Seine, Paris
TGV: Train a Grande Vitesse Source: Nguyen Duc, June 2012
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Next Gen Applications & Services?
“Next Gen Applications and Services” are novel applications and services that work best, from an end-user’s experience perspective, on super-fast and ultra-fast broadband connectivity and capacity (e.g. bi-directional at 100 Mbps and above).
Examples:
High-Definition Real-Time Medical Images.
Immersive Communications.
High-Speed Cloud Computing.
Examples of Next Gen Apps & Services Programs:
Melbourne University IBES.
US Ignite Partnership and Chattanooga Gig City.
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Melbourne University IBES
IBES: Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society.
Founded in 2009, IBES aligns research and industry interests to drive innovation in broadband applications and services to deliver seamless experiences for the benefit of the Australian society.
Research Themes:
Education & Learning.
Health & Ageing.
Services, Business & Government.
Social Infrastructure & Communities.
http://www.broadband.unimelb.edu.au/about/ipp/default.html
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IBES - Health & Ageing
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Partnership
A non-profit public-private partnership announced at the White House on June 13, 2012.
“US Ignite Partnership is an initiative to promote US leadership in developing applications and services for ultra-fast broadband and software-defined networks. It will foster the creation of novel applications and digital experiences that will transform healthcare, education and job skills training, public safety, energy, and advanced manufacturing. By serving as a coordinator and incubator of this ecosystem, US Ignite will accelerate the adoption of next-generation networks.”
The US Ignite initiative will leverage the resources of government, research institutions, foundations, and industry to foster an innovation ecosystem for development of gigabit applications and services.
http://us-ignite.org/what-is-us-ignite/
NOTE: NICTA (National ICT Australia Ltd) is a partner of the US Ignite initiative.
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Chattanooga Gig City, Tennessee
Chattanooga’s EPB Fiber in the State of Tennessee became the first community-based broadband network in the USA in 2011 to offer 1Gigabit per second Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband services, thus the name of Gig City. A community-based partner of the US Ignite Initiative.
As one of the most successful publicly-owned community broadband networks, it is designed, built and operated by the fibre unit of Chattanooga-based public power utility, Electric Power Board (EPB).
37,000 FTTP customers (February 2012).
Eight teams of entrepreneurs and eleven students are participating in a summer program, called the GigTank, for building and testing bandwidth-intensive applications with a prize of up to US$300,000.
Chattanooga population (2010): City: 170,000; Metro: 520,000. [approx.]
Attracted companies like Volkswagen, Alstom and Amazon, resulting in 7,000 new jobs and billions dollars in capital investment in Chattanooga. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jun/22/times-free-press-us-ignite-seeking-new-apps/
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In Summary: Always Think of End-Users.
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Always Think of End-Users.
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Regulators
Policymakers
NBN Co
Industry Groups
Community Groups
Residential
Small & Medium Businesses
Corporate & Government
Metropolitan
Regional
Rural
Remote
END-USERS
COMMUNITY
It’s all about End-Users and Community Engagement,
Education and Communication !
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Acknowledgements
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The author would like to thank the people and
organisations who kindly share their images on the net
that are used in this presentation.
A shorter version of this presentation was shared at CommsDay Summit 2012, Sydney, April 18.
PS: In September 2013, the Liberal-National Coalition took over the
Australian Federal Government from Labor, and changed the NBN Policy
to include Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN) technology.
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Bridging Government NBN Policy to End-User Experience
Dr Nguyen Duc Principal – EagleComms Advisory
Melbourne, Australia
ACS-TSA Lunchtime Presentation, Melbourne, 26 June 2012
au.linkedin.com/in/drnguyenduc/
© 2012 EagleComms Advisory