Topics include:Do we need industrial policy to achieve Digital Agenda targets? Will the market deliver the Commission's broadband targets on its own or should policy-makers be more pro-active? Should we favour fibre-to-the-home or be technology neutral? Should pricing be used to incentivise investment in NGA? Should policy-makers favour "infrastructure competition" or a "one-network" approach? Delft University of Technology presents new research and other high-level stakeholders from industry and regulators debate the pros and cons of different approaches.
Access pricing and non-discrimination: How could proposed new rules from the European Commission on access pricing and non-discrimination affect ultra-fast broadband deploymentCould entrants win the fibre race?: Under what circumstances can new entrants get ahead and is the business case sustainable?Infrastructure competition and technologies: where are the limits? Presentations on the future capabilities of fixed and mobile technologies and case studies on fibre and cable roll-out.
Is infrastructure duplication a realistic and desirable objective?Enabling fibre roll-out: financing and demand – exchange of views with equity and bond investors and infrastructure funds on factors influencing investment decisions.
Are the interests of investors and consumers in conflict or can they be made to coincide?Ownership, separation and equivalence: an assessment of outcomes achieved through different models ranging from functional separation in the UK, to "independent” utility fibre investors, to Government as the network owner to co-investment by multiple telcos.
21 May 2012 @ 09:00 am
21 May 2012 @ 06:30 pm
Duration: 9 hours, 30 minutes
Sofitel Brussels Europe Hotel
Belgium
Etterbeek
Place Jourdan 15-37
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