The Future Of Broadband

Publication Date	December 2006
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	11
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00017

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Summary

Michael Philpott examines, at a high-level, the likely investment required to deliver advanced broadband services such as high-definition TV (HDTV) and video-on-demand (VoD). The core of the cost analysis comes from our independent IPTV cost modelling, which is based on ADSL from the local exchange network architecture. The report then explores the implications of moving to the more advanced access network architectures of fibre to the cabinet (FTTCab) and fibre to the building (FTTB), which will be necessary to deliver the bandwidth-hungry broadband services and applications of the future. The report concludes by briefly looking at the revenue potential of advanced broadband services, and whether the high-levels of investment are justified.

Here we provide Broadband@Ovum's analysis and thoughts on how the broadband industry will shape up over the next ten years.

Content

A heavy investment
The cost of delivering IPTV
The move to access fibre
Do revenues justify the expense?
Broadband is the future growth area
Table of figures
- Figure 1 IPTV via standard ADSL architecture
- Figure 2 IPTV costs per customer based on Ovum's independent cost modelling
- Figure 3 Decreasing loop length, increasing bandwidth
- Figure 4 Yearly IPTV and VoD ARPU
- Figure 5 UK telecoms market 2005-2010