Feasibility of LTE 700 MHz Digital Dividend for Broadband Development Acceleration in Rural Areas

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Abstract.The need of broadband services to reduce digital divide in rural areas had increased in the recent years. The government of the Republic Indonesia shared similar intention and had set guidance of ICT development in its "economic master plan" and "medium term development plan". This paper addressed feasibility and suitability of its implementation in Indonesia, by conducting assessment of possible solu started with qualitative approach to identify possible options, conducted benchmarking and case study analysis to narrow down the options and finally conducted quantitative calculation for the two remaining options performance of the solutions. The results of analysis concluded that early implementation of LTE in 700 MHz Digital Dividend would be feasible in certain geographical areas to fasten the broadband plan development in Indonesia. The need of broadband services to reduce digital divide in rural areas had increased in the recent years. The government of the Republic Indonesia hared similar intention and had set guidance of ICT development in its "economic master plan" and "medium term development plan". This paper addressed feasibility and suitability of its implementation in Indonesia, by conducting assessment of possible solutions. Using mixed method, the study was started with qualitative approach to identify possible options, conducted benchmarking and case study analysis to narrow down the options and finally conducted quantitative calculation for the two remaining options and measure performance of the solutions. The results of analysis concluded that early implementation of LTE in 700 MHz Digital Dividend would be feasible in certain geographical areas to fasten the broadband plan development in digital dividend; HSPA 900 MHz; LTE 700 MHz; Rural Indonesia, with around 240 million people, is the world's fourth largest populated country, with nearly 2 million km2 land separated over 17.000 islands [1]. However, its population is not evenly distributed, as more than half of them concentrated in the Java island. Similar case applied for the availability of physical infrastructures, such as road and electricity, in dense areas, which are much better than those in the sub-urban and rural area. This also applied to the broadband technologies' availability in Indonesia. KeywordsCurrently, wireline and wireless technology telecommunication services are provided by licensed operators such as Telkom, Telkomsel, XL and Indosat. Number of mobile and fixed wireless access services has reached more than n in Q2-2010 [2]. Unfortunately, development of broadband service is far behind voice services and video broadcast; available in about only 30 cities counted for around 1% Wireless Broadband, 0.7% Fixed Broadband and 4% PC household penetration [3]. 21 Feasibility of LTE 700 MHz Digital Dividend for Broadband Development Acceleration in Rural Areas, Depok 16424, IndonesiaThe need of broadband services to reduce digital divide in rural areas had increased in the recent years. The government of the Republic In...

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