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Broadband Workshop Access to Underserviced Areas/Rural Areas and Licensing

Broadband Workshop Access to Underserviced Areas/Rural Areas and Licensing. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Portugal – A Brief Overview Portuguese Telecoms Sector Public Policy Rationale Promoting Access to Fixed Broadband Promoting Access to Mobile Broadband Promoting Access to DTT

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Broadband Workshop Access to Underserviced Areas/Rural Areas and Licensing

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  1. Broadband WorkshopAccess to Underserviced Areas/Rural Areas and Licensing Carlos Costa

  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS • Portugal – A Brief Overview • Portuguese Telecoms Sector • Public Policy Rationale • Promoting Access to Fixed Broadband • Promoting Access to Mobile Broadband • Promoting Access to DTT • Wholesale Facilitators

  3. Portugal – A Brief Overview

  4. Snapshot • Portuguese population: • 10.5 M (living in Portugal); • 4.5 M (living abroad) – 300 K in RSA • Life expectancy: 76,7 82,6 • Working population as proportion of working age population: 79,3% • Very High HDI: Rank 43 • Territory: 92,090 Km2 • PIB Per Capita: 15,702 € • Happiness Index (LPI): Rank 26

  5. The Portuguese Electronic Communications Sector

  6. Penetration per 100 inhabitants (100 HH for Pay TV)

  7. Evolution of BB Accesses

  8. A Hub for World Connectivity and Innovation • Leading Service Centres (SAP, Altran, Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu, Microsoft) • Europe’s largest Data Centre • Participation in ESA projects • Disruptive innovations in telecoms services: • First prepaid card in mobile telephony; • “TimeWarp” in Pay Tv; • Cloud Services SKA

  9. Public Policy Rationale

  10. Interrelated Social Concerns • PT Populationabove 65 y.o: 19% (EU average = 18%) • PT Populationatrisk of poverty: 25% (EU average = 24%) • PT rural population: 38% (EU average = 26%) Disability

  11. Rural NGA Specificity Dispersion of thepopulation Cost of passed HH Length of local loop KFS Lowerincomeper capita Higherproportion of seniorcitizens Penetration rates Lowerintensity of competition

  12. Demand Side Obstaclesin Rural Areas • Look closely at demand side obstacles to understand the nature of the problem Source: BEREC EWG end User Questionnaire

  13. Rural NGA Coverage Wedon´thave Wi-Fi. Speak to eachother.

  14. Rural Broadband Coverage • Source: ANACOM’s estimations and Point Topic

  15. The Assessment Process for SGEI • What services are absolutely essential for the regional and social cohesion? • Are those services ensured by the market, now or in the near future? • Are the proposed public policy measures an effective and efficient solution for the problem? • To reviewtheconcept of "essential services" • Is Society capable of financing the proposed public policy measures? Cost Benefit Analysis • What are thenet costs for the Society? NO YES YES NO YES Adequate Solutions Alternative and efficient policy instruments Proposedpublicpolicymeasures

  16. The Portuguese Digital Agenda Targets • In line with the Digital Agenda for Europe, it established ambitious goals for 2013 (access to basic BB for all) and beyond, namely: • To promote digital inclusion and usage of the Internet / ICTs by the citizens living in remote areas, with low education levels, with disabilities and by the elderly is also an important target. @ ≥30 Mbps Coverage 100% 2020 ≥100 Mbps Subscriptions ≥ 50% 2020 @ 2013 / 2014 (Mainland / Islands) Rural Subscriptions ≥40 Mbps ≥ 50% @

  17. Promoting Access to Fixed Broadband

  18. Superfast Fixed Rural Broadband (1) Five public tenders for high-speed networks in rural areas launched by the government in 2009 (EU support): • 140 municipalities with no retail competition covered (no cable network and no OAO co-located); • Minimum 50% population coverage of each municipality (circa 242 K HH with FTTH/GPON); • Minimum speed 40 Mbps (downstream) per end-user; • Within 24 months; • With overall public financing of circa 106€ M. • Costing between [651; 1630] € per passed HH with subsidies between [380; 1050] € .

  19. Superfast Fixed Rural Broadband (2) • Each high-speed rural network must: • Be managed as an open network; • Ensure, during 20 years, an wholesale offer; • Follow rules of transparency, non discrimination and healthy competition. • The winners of the public tenders were selected in 2010 and 2011. • 4 out of the 5 contracts area already signed and nearing completion. • The R.A. Madeira contract is pending attribution of EU funds.

  20. Superfast Fixed Rural Broadband (3) • In the R.A. Azores submarine cable transmission was also included in the project Corvo Graciosa Sta Cruz Graciosa Morro Alto Sta Cruz Terceira Flores Santa Barbara São Jorge Faial Velas Angra Heroísmo C.Gordo Madalena Topo Horta Pico S.Miguel 11 Aggregation Access Points (PAA) 1 Central Access Point (PAC) Submarine Cable Faial-Flores-Corvo-Graciosa (FibroGlobal). Inter-IslandsSubmarine Cable (PTC). GbEUplinkleasedline Barrosa Ponta Delgada PAC Pico Alto Vila do Porto Santa Maria

  21. Promoting Access to Mobile Broadband

  22. “e-iniciativas” (1) • In connnection with “Ligar Portugal”, the government launched in mid-2007 the“e.iniciativas”, aiming atmassifying access to laptops and Mobile BB, targeting teachers, pupils and trainees. • A laptop with Vista, Office 2007 and mobile BB, priced € 150 with a € 5 discount in the monthly fee was offered to the targeted public. • The program was expanded to primary school children (“e.escolinhas”) in 2008, with a laptop specifically adapted to children being priced at € 50, whilst poor children could get it for free.

  23. “e-iniciativas” (2) • Adoption rate to e.iniciativas was higher in the interior regions where BB adoption was lower (especially for students). • e.iniciativas acelerated the adoption of PC and of the Internet. • Most of the adopters, did not quit the BB access that was installed at the HH prior to the adoption of the e.iniciativas. • The intensity of usage of computer and Internet increased after the adoption. • The type of usage of the laptop and of the Internet access is “virtuous”. • The adhesion rate has been circa 40%, with an overall volume of adherents of circa 1.373 millions.

  24. BWA 3.4-3.8 GHz Band Auction (1) 9 regions and a total of 36 lots (4 lots/region) 2 x 28 MHz • Combinatorial sealed bid auction (2 stages of 1 round each) and 2nd price rule (1Q2010) • Objetives: promote market entry => mobile operators were not allowed to participate. • provide broadband wireless access to underserved areas => regional approach was adopted with a 3 years deadline to start commercial operation. A B A’ B’ 3600 MHz 3400 MHz C D C’ D’ 3800 MHz 3600 MHz

  25. BWA 3.4-3.8 GHz Band Auction (2) 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 Auction’s Result • 3 participants; • 2 winners: Onitelecom and Bravesensor; • 50% of the lots were assigned; • 8 regions (no bids for R.A. Madeira); • Total Revenue: 3.41 M €; • Due to technological and economic evolution, commercial developments are modest. Number of Assignedlots per Region Technical Conditions • Service & technology neutrality • BEM concept • Fixed, mobile or nomadic operations • Decision – 2008/411/EC

  26. 2011 - Multiband Spectrum Auction (1) ~392 MHz of radio spectrum and 39 lots • SMRA - Simultaneous Multiple Round Ascending Model, • Coverage obligations in the 800 MHz band – 480 rural parishes per lot (80 per lot) to be covered by the end of 2014. • Set of measures to facilitate market entry: • 900 MHz: 20% discount for new entrants, • 800/900 MHz: MVNO and roaming agreement (under special conditions), • Infrastructure sharing, • Spectrum caps with spectrum reservation in 1800 MHz and 2.6 GHz (FDD).

  27. 2011 - Multiband Spectrum Auction (2) Result Technical Conditions • 3 Winners: TMN, Optimus and Vodafone • Total revenue: 372 M € • 75% of spectrum assigned • 97.5 MHz of available spectrum • Service & technology neutrality • 800 MHz: BEM concept – Decision 2010/276/EU. • Operation possible after “switch-off” (26/4/2012) and restrictions apply untill Dez. 2014 due to Spanish DTT. • 900/1800 MHz: GSM/UMTS/LTE and future technologies to be included in Decision 2011/251/EU. • 2.6 GHz: BEM concept – Decision 2008/477/EC.

  28. Promoting DTT

  29. Promoting DTT (1) • TV Law (Law nº 27/2007) waspublished in July 2007. • Theprocess of DTT implementationwasvery inclusive and transparenthavingstarted in August 2007 and ended in 26.04.2012. • The DTT operatorhas a legal obligation to ensurecoverage via terrestrialmeans of: • 90,12% of Portugal mainlandpopulation; • 87,36% of R.A. Azorespopulation; • 85,97% of R.A. Madeira. • Hence, some areas are covered via satellite (DTH). • Usersnotcovered via terrestrial DTT mayreceivefromthe DTT operator a comparticipation for theacquisition of up to two set-top boxes per HH, as long as they do notsubscribe to paytvservices.

  30. Promoting DTT (2) • Publichospitals; • Healthcenters; • Libraries; • R&D centers; • Charities; • Publicschools Subsidies available to sociallydisadvantagedgroups: Set-Top Box Subsidy 50% of the set-top box price, up to a maximum of 22 € • Disabledend-users; • Low-incomeusers; • Retirees and pensionerswithmonthlyincomebelow 500 € InstallationAdaptationSubsidy 61 € • Endusers > 65 y.o. in social isolation

  31. Wholesale Facilitators

  32. EC Recommendations • NRAs should examine differences in conditions of competition in different geographical areas in order to determine whether the definition of sub-national geographic markets or the imposition of differentiated remedies are warranted. Where divergences in the conditions of competition are stable and substantial, NRAs should define sub-national geographic markets. • NRAs should monitor whether the deployment of NGA networks and the subsequent evolution of competitive conditions within a geographically defined market warrant the imposition of differentiated remedies. • EC Recommendantion of 20.09.2010 onregulatedaccess to NGA • Replicabilitytests in thecontext of marketanalysisshould take intoaccountdifferencesbetweengeographicareas in terms of the NGA access input used (rural vsdenselypopulatedareas) • EC Recommendation of 11.09.2013 onconsistent non-discriminationobligations and costingmethodologies to promotecompetition and enhancethebroadbandinvestmentenvironment.

  33. Regulated Access to Ducts of theHistoricOperator

  34. Elements of theReferenceOffer Access Core

  35. How Does Duct Access Offer Works? Find a route + assess availability in database Cable installation in ducts by OLOs technicians

  36. Access to Poles More used in rural areas.

  37. OLO Responsability Entrance point OLO Responsability Building Tube OLO Pole PTC Poles Visit Chamber Legend Fixing OLO cable Access to Poles Pole Access Transition Duct access

  38. OtherMeasures Decree-Law 123/2009 • Access for telecom operators to ducts and other public infrastructures • Simpler and effective rules for the construction of new infrastructures • A public geo-referenced information system for all infrastructures ITED/ITUR • Open and non discriminatory access to buildings with at least a dual fiber optic cable per dwelling and a point for sharing infrastructure in the building or surroundings

  39. AttheEnd of theDay “Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I’ll build a castle.” Fernando Pessoa (Lisbon and Durban Poet) Bartolomeu Dias

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