Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2016
Foreword
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Investment strategies for broadband deployment and access to the digital economy
Chapter 2: Accelerating Broadband Deployment Through Network Sharing and Co-investment
Chapter 3: Regulation and the Internet of Things
Chapter 4: Interoperability in the digital ecosystem
Chapter 5: M-services and applications: Perspectives on regulatory measures to foster diffusion and access
Chapter 6: Conclusion
1 Investment strategies for broadband deployment and access to the digital economy
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Global investment trends
1.3 PPP investment strategies in broadband infrastructure
1.4 PPP implementation strategies
1.5 Alternative approaches to funding broadband networks
1.6 Financial innovations in funding services and applications
1.7 Conclusions
Annex 1 – Procurement principles
Annex 2 – Sources
Abbreviations
2 Accelerating Broadband Deployment Through Network Sharing and Co-investment
2.1 Introduction: the value of network sharing
2.2 Advantages to governments of network sharing and co-investment
2.3 The development of network sharing models
2.4 Obstacles to Network Sharing
2.5 Ways governments can encourage or incentivise network sharing and co-investment
2.6 Potential downsides to network sharing
2.7 Alternatives to Network Sharing
2.8 Future applications of sharing and co-investment
2.9 Learnings/recommendations
3 Regulation and the Internet of Things
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Internet of Things concepts and deployment
3.3 Development trends and application areas
3.4 Challenges and opportunities
3.5 Policy and regulatory implications and best practices
3.6 Conclusions
4 Interoperability in the digital ecosystem
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Interop framework and use cases
4.3 Benefits of higher levels of interop
4.4 Potential risks and drawbacks
4.5 Approaches
4.6 The role of government
4.7 Important issues for the future
Appendix 1: Suggested additional readings
5 M-services and applications: Perspectives on regulatory measures to foster diffusion and access
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Welcome to the digital ecosystem
5.3 Policy and regulatory perspectives
5.4 Rights-based regulatory approaches and statutory recognition
5.5 Conclusion: setting new regulatory objectives
6 Conclusion
List of tables, figures, charts and boxes
Table 1.1: Case studies covered in the chapter by type of investment strategy and region
Table 1.2: Key characteristics of investment approaches
Table 1.3: Selected examples of private DBOs
Table 1.4: Selected examples of public outsourcing
Table 1.5: Selected examples of JVs
Table 1.6: Selected examples of public DBOs
Table 1.7: Requirements for governments to foster and secure investment
Table 1.8: An overview of investor categories and corresponding case studies
Table 1.9: Types of financial innovations and related case studies
Table 3.1: Overview of some key applications to-date
Table 3.2: Overview of challenges and opportunities
Table 3.3: Overview of policy and regulatory measures
Table 3.4: Potential IoT regulatory measures
Figure 1.1: Summary of investment trends
Figure 4.0: Overview Diagram of interop
Figure 1.2: Telecommunication retail revenues by service type and total service revenue, worldwide
Figure 1.3: FTTx capex by region to 2019
Figure 1.4: The number of operators by region that have launched or are planning LTE deployments
Figure 1.5: The number of operators by region that have launched or are planning LTE-A deployments
Figure 1.6: Wireless data traffic by type and public Wi-Fi share of that traffic, China, 2012–2019
Figure 1.7: Percentage change of selected currencies against the USD from January 2014 to March 2015
Figure 1.8: Summary of investment trends
Figure A1.1: Overview of competitive dialogue process
Figure 2.1: A cost-savings comparison of different types of sharing
Figure 3.2: Smart cities
Figure 3.3: Machine-to-machine (M2M) services
Figure 3.4: Popular IoT uses
Figure 3.5: Intel's Intelligent Systems Framework
Figure 3.6: IoT spectrum
Figure 4.1: Diagram of interop layers
Figure 4.2: Diagram of mobile payment processing and various actors
Figure 4.3: Apple patent diagram showing various components of Apple Pay system
Figure 4.4: Screen capture of instructions for adding payment information to CurrentC account
Figure 4.5: Approaches to interop
Figure 5.1: Regulatory Goals
Box 1.1: Key lessons from the Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP)
Box 1.2: Key lessons from the National Broadband Scheme (NBS)
Box 1.3: Key lessons: National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB)
Box 1.4: Key lessons: Johannesburg Broadband Network Project (JBNP)
Box 1.5: Key lessons: Metroweb
Box 1.6: Key lessons: Qatar National Broadband Network (QNBN)
Box 1.7: Key lessons: MGTS
Box 1.8: Key lessons: Google Fiber (USA)
Box 1.9: Key lessons: Google Fiber (Uganda)
Box 1.10: Key lessons: SIGFOX
Box 1.11: Key lessons: Seacom, Africa
Box 1.12: Key lessons: Facebook/Asia–Pacific Gateway (APG)
Box 1.13: Key lessons: Community broadband
Box 1.14: Key lessons: Star Citizen
Box 1.15: Key lessons: Pebble
Box 1.16: Key lessons: Shyp
Box 1.17: Key lessons: Hipcom
Box 1.18: Key lessons: meXBT, Mexico, 2014
Box 1.19: Key lessons: Aentropico
Box 1.20: Regulatory factors relevant for investors
Box 2.1: Mobile Infrastructure Sharing in Sweden
Box 2.2: Australia: Going their Separate Ways
Box 2.3: Fixed Network Co-Investment Examples
Box 2.4: Utility Participation in a Joint Venture in Ireland
Box 2.5: Tower Limits in Indonesia
Box 3.1: The Republic of Korea’s Master Plan for Building the Internet of Things
Box 3.2: China’s large-scale M2M deployment
Box 3.3: India’s smart cities programme
Box 5.1: What is a mobile app?
Box 5.2: Karnataka app M-One
Box 5.3: M-Pesa
Box 5.4: “m-cessation” (m-health for smoking cessation)
Box 5.5: Bhutan Epilepsy Project
Box 5.6: GSR-15 Best practice guidelines to facilitate the uptake and widespread use of mobile services (m-services) and applications (apps) through targeted regulation
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Investment strategies for broadband deployment and access to the digital economy
Chapter 2: Accelerating Broadband Deployment Through Network Sharing and Co-investment
Chapter 3: Regulation and the Internet of Things
Chapter 4: Interoperability in the digital ecosystem
Chapter 5: M-services and applications: Perspectives on regulatory measures to foster diffusion and access
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Figure 1.1: Summary of investment trends
Figure 4.0: Overview Diagram of interop
