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Some of pressing issues identified are: 1. It is the author’s view that ISP market cannot sustain multiple altnets/ISPs – the attrition of altnets and associated redundancies have been painful (and will continue) 2. Duplication of effort (read costs) Could the NAN model be a possible logical solution to the problem? The author suggests that any consultation, and more importantly, the development of the initial financial model should reside initially within INCA 26 . This ownership, it is suggested, is a precursor to eventual Ofcom stewardship.
REFERENCES 1. Beyond Babel 27 , New directions in communications, Brenda Maddox, Andre Deutsch, 1972 2. Monopoly and Competition in British Telecommunications The Past, the Present and the Future: John Harper, 1997, Pinter. 3. Introducing Neutral Access Networks: Alessandro Bogliolo, 2009, IEEE Next Generation Internet Networks Conf. 4. Switching and service delivery in futuristic networks: John Buckley, 1983, BT Technology Journal Vol 11 No. 4. – see https://bit.ly/37zIMTo 5. Just Deliver the Bits: David Isenberg and John Nolan, 2010, Journal of the ITP, Vol 4 Part 1. – see https://bit.ly/36SkoMp
6. Fiber to the Home White Paper: Paul Green 2003 – see https://bit.ly/3xHkcL5
7. Internet Economics: McKnight and Bailey, 1997, MIT Press.
The model outputs would then drive (or destroy) any future consultation exercise.
8. Regulatory Creep and Regulatory Withdrawal: Cubbin and Currie, 2002 - https://bit. ly/3CGIt7E 9. Meeting the Traffic Requirements of Residential Users in the Next Decade with Current FTTH Standards: Hernandez, et al. IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2019.
Annex One - A Future UK Model??
10. A 10 Point Plan for a better Openreach: Sky, et al, 2016 – see https://bit.ly/3iBKz0t
11. The potential for wavelength switching to provide virtual structured cabling across the UK: First Mile Networks, 2010 – see https://bit.ly/2V0XakI 12. Optical Fibre Systems (Chapter 8): Dr. Chris J. Lilly, British Telecom Jan 1981 – see https://bit.ly/3zUDePh
Some thoughts as to where the UK Bitco market is heading, but fundamentally, the number of altnets and ISPs (BT/VMO2 excluded) will reduce over time. This will/ should be driven by profitably! Longer term, this may consist of a small number of wholesale Service Providers (SPs) delivering all fibre to customers with “virtual” retail ISPs providing internet services. The more observant reader may identify that the model in Figure 7.1 has similarities to the creation of VM from the bones of NTL (see earlier “Decade of Pain”).
www.firstmilenetworks.co.uk
24 See - https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/02/broadband-altnets- setup-new-uk-infrastructure-sharing-group.html 25 From “Shoeless Joe” – a novel by W. P. Kinsella 26 The author has yet to approach INCA with this proposition
27 When it was first published, I recall this book causing quite a kerfuffle in what was then Post Office Telecommunications. For info, and circa late 1972, I was attending an A4 Internal course (Strowger).
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