Ultrabroadband Investment Models
Communications & Strategies, Special Issue, November 2008
17 Pages Posted: 8 Apr 2009
Date Written: April 7, 2009
Abstract
This paper explores why investment models might help explain different fiber deployment patterns, thereby conditioning the path to telecommunications-based ultrabroadband. The delivery of ultrabroadband to the residential market requires additional infrastructure investments beyond Fiber to the Home (FTTH). However, since FTTH is the path to delivering telecommunications-based ultrabroadband, fiber deployment could indicate which geographies would benefit from the new service in the long run.
Keywords: fiber optics, investment, market structure, revenues, subsidies
JEL Classification: L63, L96, D40, E22, H20
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