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The Unbundling of Network Elements: Japan's Experience
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 06:06:18 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:42:21 +0900 From: IKEDA Nobuo <ikeda-nobuo () rieti go jp> Subject: The Unbundling of Network Elements: Japan's Experience To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> This is my detailed report on "Japan's miracle" in broadband. I think you are interested in it. http://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/summary/03110001.html > With the advent of the Internet, the emphasis of communication policies > has moved from the regulation of telephone networks to the unbundling > regulation to enforce sharing of network elements. Since unbundling is > often impeded by the renegotiation by incumbents over the control of > essential facilities, it would be advisable to separate the company that > owns local loop (LoopCo). Recently the number of subscribers of DSL in > Japan has grown phenomenally due to the unbundling regulation. This > suggests that unbundling can accelerate the proliferation of broadband, > but this lesson cannot be easily generalized to other countries, because > the success depends on the special conditions such as extremely low > pricing of entrants and strategic mistakes of NTT that neglected DSL. If > the unbundling regulation succeeds in increasing competition, the > telecommunications industry in the narrow sense will shrink, making the > universal services of telephone network increasingly difficult. -- Ikeda, Nobuo Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) http://www.rieti.go.jp/it/index.e.html ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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