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Some of the topics to be covered are listed below.  Please let us know other key issues that are important to you in setting up local NGA broadband networks.

 

 

Topics to be covered

 

Commercial

 

Management

 

Technical

 

Services

 

New developments

 

Benefits to key local players

 

legal and regulatory

 

Marketing and communications

 

Collaboration between local initiatives

 

Getting going

 

 

 

 

Topics to be covered

 

These will include the following:

 

Commercial

 

Revenue models

  • Exploiting the infrastructure (open access model
  • Infrastructure plus services (closed)
  •  Infrastructure plus some services (hybrid)

and which markets each might be most suited for

The scale needed to be sustainable

  • Number of residential subscribers,
  • Number of business subscribers,
  • Service sets,
  • Distances involved and take up

Management

What are the pros and cons of the different forms of management

  • Commercial company
  • Customer co-op
  • Workers co-op
  • Community Interest Company
  • ????

Technical

What are the pros and cons of the different technical options and what are the key technical challenges to be overcome?

PON vs Pt to Pt vs Active Ethernet

Is there a role for fttc as an intermediate step?

What is the right wireless overlay – wifi? GSM? Wimax?

Laying fibre cost effectively

Backhaul

Services

What are the key services to provide and what are the commercial and technical issues regarding each.

  • Commercial
  • Publicly beneficial

Setting requirements for new developments

Including in-home infrastructure

Benefits to key local players

Examples of how the public, academic, community and business sectors can benefit from a local NGA broadband network

Legal and regulatory

What are the relevant legal and regulatory issues and what are the implications of each

Marketing and Communications

  • To key stakeholders – eg public sector, business etc
  • To potential partners – equipment, service providers, white label providers
  • To potential customers
  • To existing customers

Collaboration between local initiatives

  • Central company owned jointly by the local initiatives?
  • Franchise type arrangement
  • Informal sharing of responsibilities between local initiatives, where one might provide high level technical support, another focus on customer engagement, etc.

Getting going

  • Sorting out the right business and organisational model
  • Finding out what is already there – telecoms audit
  • Use of tactical opportunities
  • Gaining start up finance

 

 

 

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