Dr Nguyen Duc_Bridging Govt NBN Policy to End-Users_Melbourne_26-June-2012

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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Source: Nguyen Duc, June 2012

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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.


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*

(Access Provider) *Between NBN Co’s 121 POIs and end-user premises. © 2012 Dr Nguyen Duc – EagleComms Advisory

Retail Service Providers (RSPs)

(Access Seekers)

etc.

Taxpayer-Funded Broadband Subsidies


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


Global FTTH/FTTB Rankings (Dec 2011)

26 June 2012

YTMTL

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

26 June 2012

Source: News.com.au

(20 Aug 2010)

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NBN Stakeholder Groups


NBN Stakeholder Groups


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


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



Metropolitan

Regional

Rural

Remote

END-USERS

COMMUNITY


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NBN – Moving Forward


Regulators

Policymakers

NBN Co

Industry Groups

Community Groups

Residential



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?


What’s Next Then?


Super-Fast and Ultra-Fast Broadband

Connectivity and Capacity

Next-Generation Applications and

Services


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Innovation. Innovation. Innovation.


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


IBES - Health & Ageing

Source: Melb Uni IBES, June 2012

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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.


Source: US Ignite, June 2012

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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/


Source: EPB Fiber, June 2012

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http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jun/22/times-free-press-us-ignite-seeking-new-apps/

















In Summary: Always Think of End-Users.



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Always Think of End-Users.


Regulators

Policymakers

NBN Co

Industry Groups

Community Groups

Residential



Metropolitan

Regional

Rural

Remote

END-USERS

COMMUNITY

It’s all about End-Users and Community Engagement,

Education and Communication !


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Acknowledgements


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

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© 2012 EagleComms Advisory

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