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”working towards the Lisbon goals”

Porto, oktober 26th, 2004 Dirk van der Woude, project leader Citynet Amsterdam

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A title badly chosen?

ƒ “Implementation Lisbon policy is a big failure.“

Romano Prodi, october 24, 2004

ƒ The EU's reform agenda risks to become a "synonym for missed objectives and failed promises".

ƒ The EU economy has fallen further behind the US in the past five years.

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Fiber in the Netherlands

Different types of PPP’s, different roles of (local government)

ƒ Cityrings

ƒ FttI for care- and/or education institutes

ƒ FttC, FttH hundred

s The Hague, Tilburg,

Deventer,

Leeuwarden, etc.

Fiber-to-the-Meterbox, later more 40,000

Amsterdam

Housing corporation + builder/investor, triple play. € 50/month

(VAT incl.): 10 Mb symmetric, 40 TV (analogue or digital), VoIP. Local governments hardly involved.

60,000 Utrecht/Soest/

Nijmegen/ Arnhem/Leiden

(2004) Local project, network 100% owned municipality, exploitation private. Local goverment initiator, matchbroker 4,000

Rotterdam

Local project, central government funding. Loal government proud, but hardly involved.

7,800 Nuenen

Central government project, heavy funding (45 M€). Local follow up. Very delayed project, high brow discussions killed sweaty work. 2,000 (8,000) Eindhoven Remarks Homes

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Almere FttH

ƒ private-public partnership

ƒ aug. 2004: pilot, 250 homes

ƒ roll out 2004/2005: 8,000

ƒ Triple play € 80/month (VAT incl.)

– 10 Mb symmetric – 70 TV channels – telephone (VoIP) ƒ Role of government: – proces coordinator – small investor – political advocacy

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But: greatest Dutch fiber success: rural!

ƒ Nuenen (Noord-Brabant province, near Eindhoven (pop 35.000)

– Rural / semi-urban part of the Netherlands

ƒ Fiber project of social housing corporation – plus large investor

– plus central government spend per household € 500 for connection – Contract open to 7,800 households

ƒ start july 1st, 2004

– august 31: 97% of households had signed contract – september: first connections live

– december: roll out complete

ƒ price after 1st year appr. 50/month (VAT incl.)

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Aims & considerations local government

ƒ Internet-penetration – Homes appr. 80%

– Age: age 12 – 18 »95%

– Midband-penetration: Amsterdam »55%

ƒ Existing networks nearing technical end

Amsterdam: memories of telephone crisis 1986/1987

– claims of upgradeability manifold – not implemented – f.e. high speed cable pilot (!) started only october 2004

ƒ Roll out fiber will take 5 – 7 years – Little time left…

ƒ No new digital divide

– all meterboxes of Amsterdam connected

ƒ Leaving existing vertical integration

– maximum access for old & new providers delivering old & new services

ƒ Open access for all service providers – Liberalized market at last

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Users outpace existing capacities

Growth per month of data traffic Amsterdam Internet Exchange

0% 200% 400% 600% 800% 1000% 1200% 1400% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 months % of gr ow th 9% 10% 11% 12%

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Owners existing networks remain inactive

ƒ Attractive cash flows copper & coax – why invest now?

ƒ Few incentives towards innovation as admission threshold for new parties is high

ƒ Fiber is the natural generic infrastructure

– But it heralds the technical commercial end of existing infrastructures

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Amsterdams’ three layers model

passive infrastructure

loan capital, private investors, City of Amsterdam (20% total capital) active infrastructure investor: market service providers investor: market

consumer/

SME

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Financing the first 10% of the Amsterdam

network

markt-passief corporaties gemeente vreemd vermogen markt-actief

ƒ Passive layer 44 %

– Shareholders equity 60 % (risk bearing!) –Market 67 %

–Municipal 33 % (limited!) –Loan capital 40 %

ƒ Active layer 56 %

–Market, risk bearing

–No government guarantees or risks

ƒ Of total investment on 1st 40,000 meterboxes: – 90 % market – 10 % local government ƒ Leaving 410,000 meterboxes to be connected by market

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Not all bandwidth is equal

ƒ “My tuned up scooter equals your Mercedes, both can drive 80 km/h and faster”

Quality aspects

ƒ What bandwidth guarantees?

– Consumer aDSL: 2,5 to 4%

– 100% certainty at extra cost: 1024/512 kbps : € 560,- (incl. VAT)

ƒ Symmetric bandwidth?

– not available

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So what does one call broadband?

The Lisbon stategy aims at competition with US, South-East Asia. They’re fiberizing - seems time that we get ourselves some new definitions!

A proposal from Amsterdam:

ƒ Smallband: up to 512 Kb/s, asymmetric or symmetric

ƒ Midband: up to 10 Mb/s, asymmetric

ƒ Middle broadband: up to 10 Mb/s, symmetric

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High-quality generic and open

communication-infrastructure

ƒ Future proof, robust towards innovation

ƒ Everywhere & generic

ƒ Low threshold accessibility

– through scale and competition low consumer cost

ƒ Open network, maximum room for competition

– commercial services in actively free competition – as well as for social services

Citynet as a metropolitan intranet

ƒ Room for innovation

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Much more than Internet alone…

Fysical medium : optic fiber

Ethernet IP TCP “Internet” Ethernet IP TCP “Intranet” IP Ethernet Video on demand Video-phone, voice Television IP-TV Delay-TV Analogue transmission Digital TV & Radio Analogue TV Radio Special Purpose f.e. Security Consumer can choose between 10 or more service providers with offers & prices

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A network to give wings to competition

ƒ The implementation of a truly open, ubiquitous, fiber optic based access network

ƒ Always start from perspective of the end-user, not from backbone perspective

ƒ Access network is the missing “First Mile”

ƒ Use existing fiber/duct capacity where possible for backhaul and interconnect of POP locations

ƒ The decision will be based on economical and operational criteria only

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Freeing the network

ƒ Maximize entrance for service- and content providers to offer services to customers and to develop new services for customers

– With the lowest possible threshold or barrier – In an open market with a level playing field

– Within economical, technological and practical limitations

– Prevent vertical integration that will limit openness and free choice

ƒ Unlock for everybody the cheap and abundant capacity of the fiber optic network within Amsterdam

– Intranet/Citynet (on-net) bandwidth can be offered much cheaper than Internet (off-net) bandwidth

– There is immediate demand for low-cost/flat fee services for direct everyday use, like Inexpensive flat fee two-way high quality video communication

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Private-Public Partnership

ƒ It includes optimizing the design, its engineering, the marketing, and business case

ƒ A true partnership demands that only a limited number of non-negotiable objectives are set

ƒ Includes acceptable business case for all parties involved

ƒ The optimal solution will be fine tuned in a dialog with the market and with technology partners

ƒ An integral (and confidential) blueprint has been developed

ƒ A large amount of details have been investigated including

trends, technological developments, designs, business models, marketing models, engineering issues, operational issues etc.

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Truly open ubiquitous fiber access

network

ƒ Maximize the free choice of end-users in use of the network and in the selection of services, service-providers and content-service-providers

ƒ With the lowest possible threshold or barrier

ƒ Includes uses of the network for basic communication and peer-to-peer communication by end-users

ƒ Within economical, technological and practical limitations

ƒ Prevent vertical integration which will limit openness and free choice

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Summing up: the role of government

Local

ƒ Think ahead, develop vision end knowledge – Longer term than companies can or dare

ƒ Act

– Direct the match breaking process – Assemble and unite stakeholders

– Organize first mile partners (care, education)

– When necessary: invest (within ‘Altmark’ legal framework) in catalyzers

¾Especially when a ROI can be calculated within 5 years National

ƒ Develop a policy on dealing with a new natural monopoly

ƒ In between control copper & coax alike European

ƒ Enforce & implement & control electronic communication legislation

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