National Broadband Plan - Working Reports & Technical Papers. The FCC Omnibus Broadband Initiative (OBI) Working Reports Series and Technical Paper Series present analysis and research by FCC staff members. These papers reflect work performed in support of the National Broadband Plan and provide context for the Plan. Technical Paper Series The Broadband Availability Gap This paper provides explanation and greater detail about the calculations that led to the count of unserved housing units and the estimate of the size of the broadband availability gap. Chapter I - Chapter II - Chapter III - Chapter IV - View Data from the Technical Paper Broadband Assessment Model This paper provides technical documentation of how the model is constructed, including more detail about the statistical model used to estimate availability and network infrastructure in areas where no data are available.
A Broadband Network Cost Model: A Basis for Public Funding Essential to Bringing Nationwide Interoperable Communications to America’s First Responders Broadband Performance. The National Broadband Plan - Broadband.gov. Economic Study Executive Summary « Rural Cellular Association. Dr. Raul Katz is Adjunct Professor in the Division of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, Director of Business Strategy Research at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, and President of Telecom Advisory Services, LLC. He was assisted by Javier Avila and Giacomo Meille, research analysts at Telecom Advisory Services, LLC. This study was funded by the Competitive Carriers Association. The authors are solely responsible for the views expressed in this study. A PDF version of this document can be found here.
This document is an Executive Summary of a full report that can be downloaded from www.teleadvs.com or “ Within the next five years, we’ll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans. . “ The President said we will need to out-innovate, out-build, out-compete and out-educate other countries, and I couldn’t agree more. 2 Source: FCC (2010). EU Has Plans to Improve Broadband Speeds. Big news for European Broadband Users: The European Commission is planning to invest €9.2bn to improve broadband services on all over the European Union, BBC reports. According to speedtests.net, Internet across Europe is quite fast, with eight countries from 10 ranked as having among the World’s top 10 average download speed. In addition to having high speeds in European Cities, the EU wants also to make have the same service in rural areas. Its plans to achieve a minimum 30 megabits/second speed by 2020 in all European households, with half of them having 100 Mbps speeds.
The main goal of all this is to encourage services like e-health, cybersecurity, electronic procurement services and intelligent energy networks. The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is the name of the fund that will inject money into the project. This isn’t the first time funds from European Commission are being directed to broadband projects. If all goes as planned, the project will begin in 2014. Keppel to expand broadband project delivery services in Europe and Asia. Singapore -- Keppel T+ACY-T (SGX: Kep T+ACY-T), through its wholly-owned telecom engineering arm Keppel Communications Pte Ltd., today announced the formation of a new joint venture to service the global broadband network design and project delivery market.
Besides Asia, this new venture also aims at establishing a significant footprint in the European broadband market space. The 60-40 joint venture company, to be named ECHO Broadband (Singapore) Pte Ltd, will be majority held by Keppel Communications with the remaining interest held by ECHO LLC, a US-based venture owned by private investors. ECHO is the first Singapore-headquartered company to enable global broadband carriers to meet the needs of broadband access businesses by designing and rolling out broadband digital networks including hybrid fibber coaxial (HFC) networks, 2-way cable TV, cable telephony and IP networks. Mr. Dr. This press release is also available on our website: About Keppel T+ACY-T.
How vital is mapping for broadband investment? - News - Broadband Finder. Oct 26th 2011, 16:42 by Daniel King Since broadband deals are becoming more popular across the world, there is more need for accessible and transparent mapping, one organisation believes. Mapping is a fundamental element in regards to calculating where money needs to be invested in broadband infrastructure, as well as how much is necessary, a representative from Point Topic has emphasised. With more markets acquiring faster broadband, authorities are faced with a new set of difficulties, as they need to consider how they can maximise the number of premises they have online.
Point Topic has hailed the US for its approach to broadband mapping because the country has formed a coherent plan to tackle the increasing needs for the technology. To do so, the US has allocated $350 million (£218 million) to generate a detailed map of the speeds, suppliers and technologies that will be obtainable across the coming five years. Categories: Broadband. BT fibre roll-out: Do the numbers add up?
BT Ends the Expectations Management Perhaps the most striking feature is the last; when we went to the Broadband Stakeholder Group conference, estimates of the cost ranged between £5bn and £20bn, with the lower number specifically described as being for a FTTC roll-out. Clearly, whatever BT is planning, it isn’t going to be that dramatic. BT’s own statement makes clear that the FTTH (or FTTP for premises as BT puts it) will be confined to new developments, where the civil works can be shared with all other services for an estimated 70% cost saving.
It’s interesting, however, that BT is promising full blast 100Mbits/s in the FTTH networks. Not so long ago, they were doing some heavy expectations management with regard to their first FTTH deployment in Ebbsfleet New Town, suggesting that it might not get over 20Mbits/s (so less than ADSL2+!) With higher burst speeds. Does this imply an internal row between fibre proponents and sceptics, which has now been resolved? The Horse’s Mouth. Delivery Model for Broadband UK published. Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) has perhaps not always been at the forefront of peoples minds when thinking of broadband in the UK, with there being criticism over the lack of visible progress to date. Alas, with the large amount of rules governing areas such as State Aid, it should be of no surprise that things can appear to move slowly. Today sees the publication of the Delivery Model document for BDUK, setting out milestones and timelines. The definitions of Standard and Superfast Broadband are pretty simple, Standard as a service that allows a quality home working experience, for which a headline access speed of 2 Mbps is used.
Superfast is defined as headline download speeds of greater than 24 Mbps. One key factor with BDUK is that it exists only as a central helper - the delivery itself is intended to be local, with BDUK encouraging action by local bodies, communities, customers and suppliers. BDUK Delivery Targets. European Commission proposes €9 billion broadband investment program | FTTX News | Lightwave Online. Lightwave September-October 2011. Regions | Capacity Magazine. International panorama.
As at the end of the first half of 2010, Portugal occupied 16th position in the group of European countries with highest FTTH penetration, with a penetration rate reported of around 1.4%, according to the FTTH Council Europe (see Figure 29). According to the same source, there was a total of 52 500 FTTH customers on the same date. Figure 29 - Rate of household penetration of FTTH/B+LAN in terms of homes connected (first half of 2010) (Click to enlarge image) Globally, the five economies that were at the top of the rankings in terms of the penetration rate of homes connected with FTTH/B were, at the end of the first half of 2010 and according to the FTTH Council, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Lithuania.
The technologies used in FTTX access are shown in Figure 30. EPON is the most widely used FTTX technology. It is noted that Asia, a pioneer in the roll-out of FTTX, uses this technology almost exclusively, with the main operators in Japan and South Korea its main promoters. Broadband Maps. Lithuania continues leading European FTTH rankings – Invest in Lithuania. Broadbandeurope | animating the rollout of broadband across the EU. Broadband-europe. EE FTTH Report.