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Local Broadband PoliciesHeleen Kerkhof,

City of Leeuwarden

Co-ordinator of Telecities Working Group Broadband

► Role of cities in stimulating broadband development

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17th Century 19th Cent.

1970 2010

Breedband in Leeuwarden – YES INDEED

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Overcoming the barriers to the InfoSociety: Working Group Broadband (ca. 20 members)

Share best practices at Telecities Events(see also: www.ictcenter.nl/broadband)

Lobby:BB-Committee

(under Eurocities/Telecitie

s)

Joint Telecities project (? E-Ten)

Send Telecities BB Policy paper to EC (► Connecting EU @

high Speed)

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Scope of Technologie /Services

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Services1. Shared Business Networks (V-LANs), IP Telephony 2. Fast Internet (multimedia; experienced economy)3. Other (triple play: TV/Internet/phone)

Areas/ target groups:Public: E-Government

E-HealthE-LearningE-Communities(E-Culture, E-Safety)

Businesses: E-BusinessE-CommerceE-Learning

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• National policy: Leave it to the market. Rural regions: market failure!

• Artery: City investment in Open StadsRing, 33 km

• Managed dark fiber at cost price (based upon public utility ROI)

• Veins: Last mile policy: Pilots and research, organisation of concerted demand and supply; exploration on business models

• FTTI: education, culture, health care, government, commercial services

St@dsRing Leeuw@rden

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Successes, Problems Broadband (innovation!) is on the agenda By the end of 2004: 100 organisations connected Hybrid solutions, scalable connectivity (no cherry

picking) New service providers enter the market Development of community nets: networked services Competition lowers prices Start of consumer services (wireless, fed by StadsRing) Anti-lobby from Incumbants KPN (nat. Operator): free Internet for schools Legal issues pending: State Support / false competition Dark Fibre not a regular service: specific marketing

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Marketing (incl. Last miles):innovation scenario thinking

Feasibility from 5 perspectives:

StrategicFinancial

LegalManagerial

Technical Information society developments

Internal business processes

Developments per sector

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BB-Trends in E-services:- Use of Multimedia- Co-operation within chains / clusters

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Primary proces: front office, all customer contacts: mail/advertisement/ ordering/payment etc.

Secundary proces: internal automation: office apps, ERP, CRM, virtual private networks etc.

Tertiairy proces: contacts with suppliers, chain co-operation, shared services

Simplify bureaucracy, redesign processes, from supply driven to demand driven

Efficiency, Effectiveness, Economy

IT and business processes

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Strategic issues Barriers: lack of infrastructure (unwilling

incumbents), lack of content services (incl. public services), costs of BB-services

Enhance investments: Business models: role of investors, deployment, regulations. Role of local governments.

Increase competition within supply chain: not on the carrier but on services

City Policies: very diverse, may include: budget for roll out, for staff, for services

Co-operation with the Region, ‘natural’ networks

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Policy Paper / Lobby

E-Europe Plan: put up national strategies 2004: most national strategies in place (udate

needed by end 2005) EC Report Connecting Europe at high speed Comments from Committee of the Regions (!) EC report final November (?), all nat. Policies inc. National : lobby vs nat. Governments, for

updates 2005)

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Comments to Connecting Europe at High Speed

MIDband =not Broadband, Broadband should be the ambition, at least for (local) backbone

Funds for deprived areas if market fails (DOIT- edu/promo-infra), not only rural, also urban

Approach bb/data-infra as another utility (electricity, water)

Support procedures to replace obsolete technologies (unbundling local loops)

Support ‘clever digging’ Accelerate regulatory framework Accelerate common standardized, secured EU-

BBplatform for Public Services

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Public services

educationCommercial

servicesculture

Revolutionary carriers from water, railways, asfalt, to optic fiber

Global perspective, local impact

Competitiveness, welfare, innovation!

Connected @ high speed in Europe – if fiber!

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Where is the knowledge we

have lost in Information? Where is the

wisdom we have lost in

knowledge?

SOME VISIONAIRS:

I think there is a world market for maybe 5computers. IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.Robert Cringely in InfoWorld

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. Anonymous

Ict-applicaties worden de zuurstof voor onze maatschappij.Prof. Dr. Ir. Nico Baken, 2002

Whoever makes the most mistakes, wins

Think Global, act Local