Does Government Have a Role in next-Generation Access?

Content

• Executive summary
• In a nutshell
• Ovum view
• Key messages
• NGA networks are a certainty
• The business case for universal NGA deployment has not been made
• Natural monopolies don't last for ever
• Governments can stimulate but not operate
• Different solutions in different markets
• The premise: access network investment will drive economic recovery
• Promoting broader access to broadband access
• Expectations for universal NGA
• Are access networks natural monopolies?
• Defining a natural monopoly
• Monopolistic characteristics of access networks
• How NGA differs from other access networks
• Should governments invest in broadband access?
• Expense: the hurdle to NGA rollout
• Government funding can stimulate a market
• Central government is not good at running infrastructure networks
• California enters the network business... and reverses back out again
• Alternatives to government ownership of access networks
• Government-mandated monopolies and duopolies
• Grants, loans and subsidies
• Public??