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Bottom Up Broadband

Tony Shortall

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Background• 25 October 2010 DAE Stakeholders day• Gathering support from stakeholders to achieve DAE

targets • Invitations based on proposals and 300+ ideas whittled

down to 7.Bottom up Broadband (BuB) is one of those ideas and is the only idea dealing with network deployment.

• Gathering support from stakeholders to achieve DAE targets – FTTH Council Europe – ERISA– .... Community of interest

• Parallel work streams with different emphasis– EBP Blueprint and DG Regio AM work, all complementary

The Toolkit 1• Timelines

– October 2010 DAE event– December 2010 Work plan – 8 February 2011 Finance Workshop – 7 March 2011 Stakeholder Workshop– 12-13 April 2011 ERISA Workshops– 16 June 2011 Digital Assembly– September 2011 Project Completion

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The Toolkit 2• Huge range of BuB initiatives already in place...

Noonen(NL), Vaexjoe(SE), Xarxes (ES)...• Many common experiences

– Need for champions– Strong local involvement and buy-in– Finance – Enablers

• Demand– Platforms, services, local content

• Supply– Business, regulatory

– Size really matters, too small for most radars

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The Toolkit• Bottom up Broadband is an attempt to create a

toolkit to make it easier for local initiatives by guiding them through the different steps.

• Some are already doing parts – FTTH Council Europe Business guide http

://www.ftthcouncil.eu/documents/studies/FTTH-Business-Guide-v1.1.pdf

– European Broadband Portal procurement and tendering guidelines http://www.broadband-europe.eu/Pages/Home.aspx

• Sample available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/dae1009/item-display.cfm?id=5259

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Next steps• Consider the ability to scale the toolkit to

make a bigger impact (franchise model). • Continuing to meet stakeholders and

develop toolkit. • Continuing to feed into ongoing work

– ERISA Blueprints Series http://www.broadband-europe.eu/Pages/Home.aspx

– FTTH Council Webinars: Meeting Europe’s Digitial Agenda http://www.ftthcouncil.eu/

• Delivery foreseen for September

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THANK YOU!!(ERISA)

(FTTH Council Europe)(Guifi.net)

(INCA)

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tony.shortall@telage.net