The Economic Impact of VOIP

Paper Summary:

This paper examines what must be done, as VoIP moves away from the early adopter to an early majority market stage, by incumbents, mobile operators, cable companies and ISPs in order to find ways to turn VoIP from a threat into an opportunity. The author reports that the instruments used for this study include interviews, referrals and consultation feedback, which includes a Web-based survey. The paper discovers that broadband development has led to a situation in which the moratorium in the Netherlands Antilles puts national long-distance licensees at a disadvantage.

Table of Contents:
VOIP Economic Impact Study
Introduction
Approach
Interpretation
Phase 2 Approach
Work Planning
Subject Areas
Planning
Regulation and VOIP
Introduction
Services
To Regulate or not to Regulate?
Market Situation of Packet-Switched Telephony Services
Markets and Regulation
Traffic Market
Access Market
Technology
Introduction
Investments and Operational Costs of Local Networks
Broadband Connections
Mobile UMTS
Benefit Segmentation
Electricity Companies and Cable TV Networks
Information Gathering
Introduction
Action Plan
Research
information Gathering
Definitions of Certain Terms Relevant to this Research.
Judgments About
Price
Comparison of Broadband Tariffs
BEP Calculation, Changeover from Dialup to Broadband
Quality
Broadband
Market Operation
Remedies
Conclusions and Recommendations
Market Development
Introduction
Supply Side
Network Providers
service Providers
Position of Incumbents
Position of Newcomers
Accessibility of Network Incumbent
Moratorium
Tariffs
Solutions
Demand Side
Private Market
Telecommunications Networks
Development
Present Networks
Economic Impact
Introduction
Cost of NGN
Prices
End-user Tariffs
Interconnection Tariffs
Revenues
Macroeconomic Impact
Scenarios
Present Situation
Conclusion
Infrastructure Competition
Service Competition
Decision Points
Lifting the Moratorium on Local Telecommunications Infrastructure
Licence
Expansion of the Portfolio of Access Services
Linking of Networks to One Another
Recommendations Relating to the Ordinance
Effect on Revenues of BT&P

From the Paper:

"The term, "broadband," comes from the words, "broad bandwidth," and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-way link between an end user and access network suppliers that are capable of supporting full-motion, interactive video applications. Broadband is also the term that is used to describe ICT-infrastructures with a very large capacity. In this context, bandwidth considerations mean that implementing VoIP is not as straightforward as deploying other types of network applications."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Access Pricing in Telecommunications. (2004). ISBN 92-64-10592-1.
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• Black's Law Dictionary. (1990). St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.
• Broadband Prices Methodology (Strategy and Policy Unit Updated : 2003-09-18), (ITU-R) Standardization (ITU-T) Development.

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