Table of Contents
- Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- Ovum view
- Key messages
- NGA networks are a certainty
- The business case for universal NGA deployment has not been made
- Natural monopolies don' t last for ever
- Governments can stimulate but not operate
- Different solutions in different markets
- The premise: access network investment will drive economic recovery
- Promoting broader access to broadband access
- Expectations for universal NGA
- Are access networks natural monopolies?
- Defining a natural monopoly
- Monopolistic characteristics of access networks
- How NGA differs from other access networks
- Should governments invest in broadband access?
- Expense: the hurdle to NGA rollout
- Government funding can stimulate a market
- Central government is not good at running infrastructure networks
- California enters the network business..... and reverses back out again
- Alternatives to government ownership of access networks
- Government-mandated monopolies and duopolies
- Grants, loans and subsidies
- Public - private partnerships
- Tax concessions
- Governments must give regulators the tools and freedom to do their job
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