IP Peering Adviser: KuangChiu Huang Ph.D. Student: 陳佳盈 修宇亮 鄭有志

Outline Background – The viewpoint of the leading company: against free IP peering – The viewpoint of the other companies: agree to free IP peering History and development – The liberalization of the telecommunications market in Taiwan IP peering problems Solution to Internet Interconnection Conflicts

Background What is IP Peering?

Background 東森 ( 亞太 ) 寬頻

Background The viewpoint of the leading company: against free IP peering International practice of IP peering – low control mechanism – highly negotiation mechanism IP peering in EU countries

Background The viewpoint of the other companies: agree to free IP peering

History and Development Liberalization of the telecommunications market in Taiwan 1987-customer premises equipment 1997-communication service Now-whole-open

History and Development Three stages of the liberalization of the telecommunications market in Taiwan The opening of the monopoly period The first stage The introduction of infrastructure and competitive period The second stage The whole opening competitive period The third stage

buyerseller IP peering problems market

JAPAN VS TW

WHY?

PART 1 (ICP) to make better user experience of internet, afraid losing at the starting point, must spending large of money to hire Chunghwa Telecom's room, put own site colocation in Chunghwa Telecom

PART 2 ISP to make smoothly line on own broadband,so set the website on Chunghwa Telecom's website, so they will have to spend big money to buy bandwidth with China Telecom

Follower VS Dominator X Internal VS External

Internal VS External

Follower VS Dominator

Dominator → Follower Building a value chain in the industry

Follower → Dominator Effective allocation of resources system

Solution to Internet Interconnection Conflicts

National Authorities Non-dominant Players Dominant Players

When the market competition mechanism become imbalanced or peering cannot execute, public power should intervene at suitable time. Order Chunghwa Telecom to announced cost structure to establish reasonable selling price. Establish the market mechanism, to attract foreign content providers. Publish policies to support the development of network exchange center. National Authorities

Solution to Internet Interconnection Conflicts National Authorities Non-dominant Players Dominant Players

Chunghwa Telecom have set too high Internet interconnection price, They should immediately cut down the price according to the international market. Chunghwa telecom should increase bandwidth of public interconnects.

Solution to Internet Interconnection Conflicts National Authorities Non-dominant Players Dominant Players

Improve the self-competitiveness ISP providers should try their best to strive for high quality ICP. Non- dominant Players

Solution to Internet Interconnection Conflicts National Authorities Non-dominant Players Dominant Players