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for highest bandwidth and quality for end-users and which no longer rely on copper cable elements. These are FTTH … architectures only. From all available FTTH architectures we concentrate on the two most relevant architectures in Europe, Ethernet … bottom-up cost modelling approach. We model the total cost of the services considered under efficient conditions, taking into …
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valuation of DSL connection speeds in the range between 1 and 8 Mbps. Moreover, in January 2014, the valuation of FttH … quickly over time. The small initial difference in the valuation of DSL and FttH connections may be because consumers' basic … tariff plans, which are substantially higher when switching from DSL to FttH technology. According to counterfactual …
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.S. and EU lag behind. Less analysis was, however, spent how Japan constructed the most successful FTTH networks all over the … country. The objective of this paper is to identify factors promoting deployment of Japanese FTTH in the competitive … process, however, is that the share of NTT locals in the FTTH market locals has been increasing and reached more than 70 …
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The Digital Agenda for Europe sets out clear goals for providing high speed broadband to all its residents, but leaves the implementation of this plan to the individual Member States. Because of large economic, cultural and political differences, the roads to realizing these ambitious goals are...
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Although the phenomenon of the internet only emerged about 25 years ago, it is hard to imagine life without it. More and more people use the available connectivity for both professional and private life, and the number of services grows continuously. This increasing demand for capacity and speed...
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This study examines the relevant factors that determine the FTTH tariffs within the European Union (EU) zone. FTTH … use across EU countries along with the increasing deployment. However, FTTH tariffs, play an important role in the … between 2013 and 2018, we find a consistent effect of FTTH tariffs on national economic output with diminishing returns to …
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According to the 2013/466/ΕC Recommendation for setting copper and NGA wholesale access prices where cost orientation … is imposed as a remedy, NRAs should adopt a BU LRIC+ costing methodology that estimates the current cost that a … modeling approaches in terms of wholesale FTTH prices. In particular, the modified scorched node approach is compared to the …
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Efficient broadband technologies such as DSL, fibre, cable modem, powerline communications, UMTS, WLAN or WiMax are powerful locational factors for an economy. Europe in particular should promote broadband communication further to tap into its growth potential. But given the prevailing ownership...
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Both users and operators are aiming for faster networks to host higher-quality contents. Legacy infrastructure models are still mainly based into facilities investment competition. The large investment to deploy a new network into the market has been a huge barrier for new entrants and it has...
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operator from a single town in a European country which has full coverage with both ADSL and FTTH broadband technologies. Based … on the demand estimation we find that consumer valuation of FTTH broadband in 2013 increased over time while ADSL lost on … attractiveness relative to FTTH but also in absolute terms, which suggests that consumers increasingly care about the speed of …
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