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Implementing Oftel’s Broadband Strategy John Russell 12 July 2002
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Outline Oftel’s broadband strategy Key recent decisions Market developments
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Oftel’s broadband strategy Goal = quality, choice and value for money How - by promoting network competition and competition in the supply of services Technology-neutral approach Intervention focused on bottlenecks caused by BT dominance Quarterly surveys, ad hoc research and international benchmarking (Sarah Evans)
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Key recent decisions BT’s ADSL products BT Marketing ATM Interconnection Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) Partial private circuits (PPCs)
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Recent decisions - BT’s ADSL products Pricing - margin between BT’s wholesale and retail prices (SPs) Pricing - absolute level of wholesale prices (LLUOs)
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Recent decisions- Marketing statement (21 May) Enable consumers to have easy access to information on what services are available to them Make clear how BT can market its services without acting anti-competitively Oftel will closely monitor BT’s compliance
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Recent decisions- ATM interconnection (21 June) BT directed to provide ATM interconnection to other operators, to enable them to offer ADSL services BT also required to run a trial for an SDSL version of the interconnection service
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Recent decisions - LLU March 2001, complaint that BT did not offer a ‘nearest equivalent’ to BT’s own facilities Directions of Oct 2001 (Co-mingling) and Dec 2001 (Access) Lower prices for co-location. Set-up dropping significantly
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Recent decisions - PPCs PPCs allow operators to compete with BT in the leased lines market March 2001, Oftel required BT to negotiate provision of PPCs with 10 operators BT launched PPCs on 1 August 2001, Oftel received requests for determination on 2 August
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Recent decisions - PPCs Requests for Determination from 8 OLOs split into 2 Phases: –Phase 1 - direction requires BT to make a number of improvements to its wholesale leased lines products (14 June) –Phase 2 - will resolve the more complex issues eg pricing and SLAs. Consultation August, decision October 2002
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Market developments - availability ADSL - 66% (1115 exchanges) June 2002 - BT ADSL order registration system Cable modem access - 38% Satellite - 100% BFWA - 13%
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Market developments - prices, April 02 Source: Oftel International Benchmarking reports, based on ADSL and cable modem tariffs valid as at April 02.
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Market developments - take up Source: Oftel.
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Prices are down 20k new connections a week Service provider competition - DSL Network competition - cable Satellite and BFWA developments Interest in LLU Conclusions
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