I will be talking on "
Perspectives on the Telecommunications Reform Package" at the ATUG "
Focus Forum on 2009 Telecommunications Reform Package" at NICTA in Canberra, 14 October 2009.
This will be followed by
Professor Reg Coutts, a member of the Government’s Broadband Panel of Experts with a free talk on "
The National Broadband Network: New Ways of Working" at the same venue, 5:30PM.
Perspectives on the Telecommunications Reform Package
For the ATUG Focus Forum, Canberra, 14 October 2009
NBN Initiative
- Platform and enabler for participation in the digital economy
- Visionary: addressing Australia's inadequate investment in BB infrastructure
- Also addresses inadequate regulation of market power in wholesale and retail markets
- But what the NBN will deliver is not clear.
The high level issues
- What will be the NBN's wholesale service?
- What will be its guaranteed QoS?
- NBN and national wholesale pricing?
- Will the NBN serve IPTV providers with network neutrality?
- How can transparency be achieved in the NBN's business practices?
- Should an Industry Ombudsman be created for NBN retail performance issues?
- What transitional arrangements and competitive protections?
- Will competitors to the NBN really be permitted or even safeguarded?
What will be the NBN's wholesale service?
At least three components:
- Implementation service
- Transmission capability: point-to-point with guaranteed QoS re performance: bandwidth, outages etc
- Maintenance service
What will be the guaranteed QoS?
Essential for the NBN to offer minimum guaranteed service levels for all service aspects within its (implementation, transmission, maintenance) to provide a basis on which retail service providers can offer QoS to their end customers, especially business customers.
- Can the NBN offer multiple SLAs? Can it actually deliver a range of SLAs?
- The realities of service bottlenecks in international links can be allowed for in service agreements
NBN and national wholesale pricing?
- Costs vary with geography & density
- Sparse population - high 'backhaul' costs
- Low population densities
- Elements of the solution
- Multiple platforms : FTTP for 90%, advanced wireless and satellite for 10%
- Multiple POIs
- Backhaul 'network'
- Cross subsidy within NBN
Will the NBN offer network neutrality?
Network Neutrality (NN): no differentiation by the NBN in terms of price or performance by content source:
- Essential for competition
- Allows competition in IPTV services
- Requires a QoS supporting IPTV
Transparency in the NBN business?
NBN Co needs a transparent policy decision process:
- Publishing all Board decisions after each meeting (ICANN model)
- Industry Ombudsman
Is a new industry Ombudsman needed?
Transitional arrangements and protections
- What transitional arrangements and competitive protections will apply for service providers using current networks?
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