1. What is a True Open Access Network?

2. What if every freight company had to build their own roads?
What would the price to get a package delivered be?
And who would build roads to remote locations?

3. Comparison between a municipality and a private company
What are their goals and skills?
Municipalities’ goals with broadband
Job creation
Innovation
New and staying businesses
Quality of life - residents staying/moving in
= Secured or higher tax revenue
Municipalities’ skills
Maintaining municipality owned facilities and infrastructure
Private companies’ goals with broadband
Maximizing profits
Dividend to Shareholders
Maximizing ROI on investments
Reach quarterly targets
Private companies’ skills
Service innovation
Contact with end customers
End customer billing
Sales & Marketing
Who would build to the farmer?

4. One open fiber to every home and Business!
Broadband Networks are the Roads of the Future - Communities Should Build Them!
One open fiber to every home and Business!
Internet, TV, VOIP, tele health, security, smart city services, etc.
+ everyone else!
This way a community can ensure the farmer is connected!

5. The Open Access Model is Like a Toll Road
The Network Owner and Operator build and maintain the road. Everyone who wants to use it pay a toll fee
More services sold on the network means higher revenue and faster payback (and happier subscribers!)

6. The Open Access Business Model
Multiple ISPs on the same network compete for the end customers with quality and price of service
Network Owner
(community)
Network Operator
Subscribers
Service Providers
Network Operator (Owner)
Fast Fiber Inc
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No 1 Fiber Inc
The Toll Station!

8. Why is a Dark Fiber Lease Model NOT True Open Access?
With a dark fiber lease model you don’t control the entire path to the end user, which means your future is in the hands of others

9. Comparison Between Dark Fiber Lease and Open Access
One kind of Dark Fiber Lease model is where you lease the entire fiber to one service provider as a ”bit-pipe”
Per-line pricing model
Per-service pricing model
Accessline
E - Health
VOD
VOIP
IPTV
www
Accessline
bit-pipe
bit-pipe
Competitor
Service
bundle
$10 + $15 + $20 + $5 + $15 = $65 / m
VS.
$40 / m
+ Easy
No competition
No control
No additional revenue
Smart city services?
+ Bigger assortment
+ Happier customers
+ Control
+ Higher ARPU!
More complicated (?)

10. A Dark Open Fiber Ring Creates Local Monopolies
With infrastructure investments needed there will not likely be any competition
Who will build here, where there are few houses and far from backbone?
= ISP C’s Middle Mile & Last Mile Network
= ISP A’s Middle Mile & Last Mile Network
= City Owned
Fiber ring
= ISP B’s Middle Mile & Last Mile Network

11. Open Access is the Foundation for Smart City Applications
If you don’t control the infrastructure, how will the community or other entities deliver critical smart city applications of the future?

12. Who will invest in the infrastructure to reach these houses?
Let’s Say You Want to Install Smart Electricity Meters, Streetlights or Other Smart City Services the Future Holds
If you don’t control the middle and last mile you need agreements with multiple private companies who might not consider the community benefit
= ISP C’s Middle Mile & Last Mile Networks
Who will invest in the infrastructure to reach these houses?
= ISP A’s Middle Mile & Last Mile Networks
= City Owned
Backbone
= ISP B’s Middle Mile & Last Mile Networks