Fibre to the Home: Taking your life to new horizons!

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1 Fibre to the Home: Taking your life to new horizons! Chris Holden, President of the Board, FTTH Council Europe EETT s 6th International Conference Athens, 2 June 2011

2 FTTH Council Europe Our Vision: A sustainable future enabled by Fibre to the Home Our Mission To accelerate FTTH adoption through information and promotion in order to enhance the quality of life, contribute to a better environment and increased competitiveness Organisation Founded in 2004, non-profit industry organisation More than 150 member companies

3 FTTH Global panorama end-2010 Total subscribers 4.2 M 8.8 M 3.9 M 45 M 0.3 M Europe >3.9million FTTH/B Subscribers (+4.2M if include Russia) >22.3million Homes Passed (+10.6M if include Russia) Average penetration rate: 17.5% and FTTH continues to grow

4 Photo courtesy of ER-Telecom FTTH Case studies

5 Photo courtesy of ER-Telecom FTTH Case studies Ostrobothnia MälarEnergi Stadsnät ER-Telecom TEO Amsterdam Citynet ARGE Glasfaser Waldviertel Portugal Telecom Pau Pyrénées Andorra Telecom Fastweb

6 ANDORRA Andorra Telecom - Analysis Universal FTTH services for all citizens Success Story Andorra is Europe s FTTH leader with a penetration of 40% of its inhabited households (26% if include holiday homes) From traditional telecom operator to service-oriented provider A challenge with no economies of scale in a small, mountainous country

7 AUSTRIA ARGE Glasfaser Waldviertel - Analysis Success Story Rural villages build their own FTTH network Each village owns their portion of the network From low employment, high exodus to new economic boost: young families and students return, businesses collaborate and share servers, etc New municipal services: control of street lights and floods, remote energy monitoring Special connected homes for elderly people will open 2012

8 PORTUGAL Portugal Telecom Analysis Incumbent gains competitive advantage with FTTH Success Story First European incumbent to go for FTTH With average 3 TV sets per Portuguese home, pay-tv is a driver Marketing approach: new services only available on FTTH Portugal Telecom captured 28.7% of pay-tv market

9 RUSSIA ER-Telecom - Analysis Local cable TV operator goes national with FTTB offer Success Story Russia is the fastest growing FTTH market in Europe Created in 2001 as a local cable operator in the city of Perm, ER- Telecom has become the 4 th largest Russian TV/Internet operator ER-Telecom uses aerial cable along the municipal electricity transmission lines because it is easier and faster to deploy.

10 SWEDEN MälarEnergi Stadsnät - Analysis First FTTH open network in Sweden Success Story Västerås is the first town to build its own FTTH network in 1999 Open network model allows wholesale revenues to MälarEnergi Connections are sold to the households, adding value to their property and contributing to the financing of FTTH deployment

11 SWEDEN Hudkisvall - Analysis FTTH Build brings new life to Town Success Story Population decline halted and population now increasing Increase of number of businesses: 6-14% per year Two high-growth businesses founded premises in Hudkisvall Old@home Ehealth-project started National research instituted opened subsidiary

12 Amsterdam Citynet - Analysis THE NETHERLANDS Public-Private consortium braves challenges to build city network Success Story Glasvezelnet Amsterdam (GNA) was initiated as a PPP between municipal authority, housing corporation and private investors Multiple operators with BB Ned and KPN Citynet was challenged in court twice by cable operator UPC, and it took three years to get regulatory approval from the European Commission.

13 Europe s healthcare systems

14 A new approach for Europe s healthcare systems Higher life expectancy, fatter Europeans, more chronic diseases Governments are under pressure to reduce costs Numbers over 65 years expected to rise to 123M by 2030 Regular monitoring is needed rather than hospital visits Trend - from a hospital centric system towards remote care How health service providers use FTTH to cut the rising cost of healthcare delivery AND improve service? Patients stay in the comfort of their home, or be treated from their local doctors office Patients reduce their travel time/cost and their waiting time Hospitals reduce administrative costs and consultants time To make this change, high penetration of homes is necessary

15 Some examples Sweden Nurse Gudrun Care channel: provides patients with online video consultations over their TV sets, reducing costs to 1/16 Portugal Telecom Part of the digitalisation of Portugal s healthcare system Doctors share diagnosis with their national & international peers, conduct remote consultations (10,000+ by April 2011), communicate with patients with serious or rare diseases The Netherlands town of Nuenen One of world s highest FTTH densities Video-based platform for elderly care, community exchange

16 Universal Service The Universal Service regime stipulates that a broadband product must be functional What is functional broadband now? What will be functional broadband in 5 years, 10 years? 30mbs universal (+ 100mbs subscribed by 50%) targets are set. Danger that investing public funds in time-limited infrastructures will not be repeated. Get it right first time! In Europe Universal Service is code for who should pay? Not industry and its users, the benefits are societal (health, education, productivity...) public finance when needed should come from general taxation

17 Thank you for your attention!