Public private partnerships as a tool for stimulating investments in broadband

Falch, Morten; Henten, Anders

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2010.07.010

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“…Amongst others, these include: the development of custom user-generated or wireless community networks (Middleton & Bryne, 2010;Goggin, 2007); local public broadband as a civic infrastructure (McShane, 2013); extending universal service obligations to include broadband (Morsillo, 2013); increased subsidies from metropolitan areas to rural regions (Dobson, Jackson & Gengatharen, 2011); greater public investment (Li, 2012); and public-private partnerships (Given, 2010;Falch & Henten, 2010). The appropriateness of different forms of broadband connection will vary by locales and users.…”

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The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

Freeman

Park

Middleton

et al. 2016

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Advanced connectivity offers rural communities prospects for socio-economic development. Despite Australia's national broadband infrastructure plans, inferior availability and quality of rural Internet connections remain persistent issues. This article examines the impact of limited connectivity on rural socio-economic opportunities, drawing from the views of twelve citizens from the Boorowa local government area in New South Wales. The available fixed wireless and satellite connections in Boorowa are slow and unreliable, and remote regions in the municipality are still without any Internet access. Participants identified four key areas in their everyday lives that are impacted by insufficient connectivity: business development, education, emergency communication, and health. Rural citizens often already face challenges in these areas, and infrastructure advancements in urban spaces can exacerbate rural-urban disparities. Participants' comments demonstrated apprehension that failure to improve connectivity would result in adverse long-term consequences for the municipality. This article suggests that current broadband policy frameworks require strategic adaptations to account for the socio-economic and geographic contexts of rural communities. In order to narrow Australia's rural-urban digital divide, infrastructure developments should be prioritised in the most underserved regions.

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The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

Freeman

Park

Middleton

et al. 2016

AJIS

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“…OECD, 2008OECD, , 2009ITU, 2009) and in the policy-oriented work of academics (e.g. Huigen & Cave, 2008;Cave & Martin, 2010;Falch & Henten, 2010) in recent years. Belloc et al (2012) are the first to examine econometrically the distinct effects of demand-and supply-side policies on the diffusion of conventional broadband technologies.…”

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Efficient Contracts for Government Intervention in Promoting Next Generation Communications Networks

Briglauer¹,

Holzleitner

2014

SSRN Journal

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW. universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. We contend, however, that the current contract practice of fixing ex ante targets for network expansion is inefficient given the uncertainty about future returns on NGA infrastructure-based services and the public authorities' incomplete information about the capital costs of the network provider. This paper puts forward to delegate the choice of the network expansion to the NGA provider.

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“…To ensure this, four elements should be included in the mechanism: the clear and long-term relationship between public and private partners, private equity as part of the funding, main objectives defined by the public actor, while implementation decisions left to the private one(s), and clear sharing of risk (Falch and Henten, 2010).…”

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Evaluating the Impact of Financing Structure Decisions on FTTH Deployment. A Comparison between New Zealand and Europe

2014

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-From both academic research as well as empirical evidence, it is apparent that the ever increasing demand for higher bandwidth and more reliable networks will drive the worldwide deployment of Next-Generation Access (NGA) networks. The paths followed to achieve this goal markedly vary, however, across different countries. The nationwide Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) investment strategy by the government of New Zealand, also known as the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative, alongside an open access obligation, contrasts sharply with the local European initiatives for NGA deployments. It is therefore timely to compare the UFB network in New Zealand with a range of relevant European cases. The present paper develops an analytical framework that builds upon technology, policy, and market aspects and their interactions allowing for a clear mapping of the incentives, goals and actions of the different players in the field. By applying this framework to selected FTTH deployment cases, while taking account of geographical characteristics and market structures, among others, this work draws relevant conclusions about the impact of investment decisions on main case performance criteria such as coverage and uptake.

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Public private partnerships as a tool for stimulating investments in broadband

Cited by 82 publications

References 6 publications

The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

Efficient Contracts for Government Intervention in Promoting Next Generation Communications Networks

Evaluating the Impact of Financing Structure Decisions on FTTH Deployment. A Comparison between New Zealand and Europe

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