---

• Strategies for the deployment of NGN in a broadband environment
• Preface
• Foreword
• Executive summary
• Table of contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background to NGN
  • 2.1 Definition of NGN core and access
  • 2.2 Broadband definition
  • 2.3 NGN based services and economic benefits
  • 2.4 The economic aspects of NGN migration issues
  • 2.5 The key questions to be answered
• 3 Example NGN approaches and issues
  • 3.1 Policy
    • 3.1.1 Spectrum
    • 3.1.2 Services
    • 3.1.3 Frameworks
    • 3.1.4 Education and content supply
    • 3.1.5 Summary of policy issues
  • 3.2 Regulation
    • 3.2.1 The role of regulation with NGN
    • 3.2.2 Altered approaches may be needed
    • 3.2.3 Functional and structural separation
  • 3.3 Funding
    • 3.3.1 Government funding
    • 3.3.2 Localised government funding
    • 3.3.3 Public-private funding
    • 3.3.4 Commercial (private) funding
  • 3.4 Broadband deployment economics
  • 3.5 Technical factors
  • 3.6 Consumer impacts
• 4 Key messages for NGN broadband deployment and some possible approaches
• 5 Key messages for promoting growth in data communications in developing countries