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Exploring the socio-economic advantages of high-speed broadband access

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: December 2007
Product Code: R464-682
Description
While governments are still debating feasible (cost effective) ways of delivering ‘standard’ broadband access to all, there is already a push from some stakeholders around the world for national governments to fund high-speed access - using technologies such as fibre-to-the-x (FTTx) - to all homes and business premises. The reasoning behind these calls is the belief that such investment will lead to greater economic wealth and social fulfilment for that particular country - and if not acted upon soon, some of the opportunities will be lost as other countries seize the advantage - at least when it comes to industry competitiveness. The issue is that FTTx investment can run into billions of dollars, and the real benefits are hard to quantify and prove.

This report explores whether there is any evidence that high-speed broadband may indeed lead to greater socio-economic benefits.
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Benefits of broadband access in general
Additional benefits of high-speed broadband access
Addressing the digital divide
Is there any evidence of benefits from ‘standard’ broadband?
Direct benefits of standard broadband access
Indirect benefits of standard broadband access
Additional benefits of high-speed broadband
Direct benefits of high-speed broadband
Indirect benefits of high-speed broadband access
Table of figures
Figure 1 Consumer broadband penetration by households 2006-2011
Figure 2 Average revenues and broadband subscriber base for the top five operators (2000-2006)
Figure 3 Average wireline and wireless revenues for the top five operators 2000-2006
Figure 4 Telkom South Africa: average wireline and wireless revenues 2000-2006
Figure 5 Total telecoms revenues as a percentage of GDP for selected countries
Figure 6 Communication availability per 100 inhabitants
Figure 7 Internet activities in the UK: 2006-2007
Figure 8 Korean domestic music industry
Figure 9 Average time saved per transaction per service
Table 1 Time and cost reductions resulting from e-health implementation of ICT facilities/services
Figure 10 Historic FTTx subscriber figures
Table 2 Korea: BcN construction timeline and goals
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