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 USA - Benchmarking broadband in the USA

The USA , as many other countries, has introduced economic stimulus packages that include telecoms infrastructure. It has now been widely accepted that such investments should deliver economic multiplier effects; it should stimulate economic growth, e-business, e-health, tele-education, smart grids as well as high-speed Internet access. This can only happen when these investments are linked to business models based on an open wholesale network. The telco and cable monopolies and duopolies as they exist in America will stop any economic multiply effect. This reports uses Australia as a bench market, where the government has launched an A$43 billion broadband stimulus package that will result in the development of an open network that will link 90% of all households to an FttH (Fibre-to-the-home) network.

 Table of Contents

1. Synopsis
2. Australia's open National Broadband Network
2.1 Setting the benchmark for the USA
2.2 The old order will have to change
3. Taking the blinkers off
3.1 A vision for the future
3.2 Market failure is what got us here
3.3 Innovate or die
3.4 Openness and cooperation, not half-truths and innuendo
3.5 From silo models to trans sector thinking
3.6 Leaders and laggards
4. The Australian broadband initiative
4.1 Wholesale only infrastructure
4.2 Trans-sector model - much more than just Internet
4.3 Economic multiplier effect of infrastructure
4.4 Only fibre will do
4.5 Reactionary incumbent telcos don't like it
4.6 Vertically-integrated telcos hamper innovation and penetration
4.7 Aussie model not one-size-fits-all
4.8 Model also good for enlightened incumbent telcos
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