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Consult 21 Update - Agenda

• Consult21 Steering Board•Remit

•Membership

•Detail

• Recent and Future Meetings

• Programme Plans

Nigel Scott

13th December 04

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Consult21 Steering BoardTerms of Reference

• To set objectives and agree deliverables for Consult21 industry working groups taking into account Ofcom policy.

• To review progress against objectives and take action where necessary to ensure progress is made and/or deliverables redefined.

• To be the formal linkage with other activity such as TSG and NCC and Ofcom.

• To ensure that non-active industry members are informed about progress on 21CN industry negotiations

Scope• To create, manage and own a framework within which industry

and BT can agree on 21CN interoperability and consult on the development of next generation products and services, including access and interconnection products with their associated contracts, timeline etc, taking account of Ofcom policy, BT’s network capability and industry requirements.

This is a draft to assist discussion

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Steering Board Membership• 3 BT members will be present

• BT Wholesale (co-chair) / BT Group

• BT Retail

• 7 Industry Members will be selected by the co-chairs to ensure representative cross section of industry• Co-chair / 2 Altnets / Cable operator / Mobile Operator / ISP /

Service Provider

• Each Industry member will have an ‘Alternate Partner’• To attend meetings if the Industry Member is unavailable

• Industry members and their Alternates will act as the Community of Interest for their sector

• Industry members and the Alternates may be rotated informally within their community of interest

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Consult21 Steering Board Membership

Full Industry members Alternate Partners

AOL France Telecom (Orange/Wanadoo)

Cable & Wireless Energis

Centrica Telecom Spitfire (& UKFSPA)

Telewest NTL

THUS plc Your Communications

Vodafone O2

Co-Chair Huw Saunders (Kingston)

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Recent and Future Events / Workshops Meeting / Working Group Date

Keynote Event 30 Nov 04

LLU 3 Dec 04

Trials 7 Dec 04

Standard Contract Forum 13 Dec 04

Legacy Interconnect 17 Dec 04

Next Generation Interconnect (MSAN) W/c 10/1/05

Systems W/c 10/1/05

Trials W/c 10/1/05

Industry Steering Board 12 Jan 05

BB/LLU W/c 17/1/05

Private Circuits and PPC W/c 17/1/05

Network Hooks and Common Capabilities W/c 17/1/05

Next Generation Interconnect including Numbering W/c 24/1/05

Legacy Interconnect W/c 24/1/05

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Example Plan: Legacy Interconnect

Key:  

Decision Point

Planned Decision Point  

Activity Boundaries  

Estimated Activity Boundaries

  Concept:BT setting the scene (current thinking), customers providing ad-hoc input. An iterative process.

  Proposal:Outline suggestions to elicit detailed industry comment

  Offer:

BT's Formal commercial proposal                

Consult21 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2

  Activity Oct-04 Nov-04 Dec-04 Jan-05 Feb-05 Mar-05 Apr-05May-05 Jun-05

Jul-05

Aug-05

Sep-05

1. Product Migration - Legacy Interconnect                  

  Concept                        

  Proposal                        

  Offer                        

  Key Milestone/Event       NCC NCC CONTRACT AMENDMENT       DLE

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