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KenniswijkLearning experiences from a broadband experiment

Robert Elbrink

City of Eindhoven

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Topics

• What is Kenniswijk

• Broadband in Kenniswijk

• Learning experiences

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Kenniswijk

• A National initiative, with a

• Regional implementation, aiming for an

• International status

Eindhoven Region has won the national

competition to host the Kenniswijk-

experiment

Project duration: 2001-2005/6

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Main objectives

• Large scale stimulation ICT-innovations

• Both: Services and Broadband infrastructures

• Building knowledge and experience

• Measure effects on consumers

Mission of Kenniswijk

“Create the future consumer market”

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Smart users

New infrastructures Innovative services

Kenniswijk Triangle Strategy

Measure:Stimulating consumer demand

Measures:Courses, Public access

Supporting measures:Visitor Centre, Portal, Broadband demonstration centre

Measure:Funding innovative projects

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The Netherlands

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The Eindhoven Region

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The Kenniswijk Area

• 84.000 inhabitants

• Cross section of Dutch population

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Public Private Partnership

Market parties are leading, but Initial funding by national en local

governments (I.e. the cities of Eindhoven en Helmond and SRE)

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Broadband results 2002 - now

• Fiber to the Home:- 800 homes passed with commercial offering (14%

connected) / Internet 10 Mbps / EUR84 (EUR59)- 400 homes passed with non-commercial offering (30%

connected) / Internet 30 Mbps / EUR25- 210 homes passed / local government pilot

• Wireless- UMTS-pilot area for Vodafone- WiFi-hotspots are being roll-out with a commercial party

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Home Environment

Providers

Videocontent

Providers

VisionAIR

Service Platform

Telephony

Providers

Internet Service

Providers

Conversion

to

VisionAIR

protocols

xDSL/

FttH

Modem/

O/E

Analogue, DVB, Mpeg2, WMP, Mpeg4,

etc

FttH

Mpeg2

xDSL

Mpeg4VoIP

POTS, ISDN,

VoIP, etc

Heating, electricity,

security etcMultiple

providers

IP

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Observations during the first years

• FttH lagged with respect to prognoses, due to- Economic situation (burst of the “bubble”)- Rapid uptake of ADSL / Cable- No sense of urgency with telco’s and cable companies- No viable commercial (unbundled) business case:

• Too much risk• Too litte return of investment

• Slower than expected development of services- Less than expected broadband connections- Product- and service development takes time

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Changing role of local government w.r.t. FttH

• Broadband infrastructure- From passive to active role- Eindhoven has developed and communicated a clear vision- Demand bundling to stimulate market movement- Building new partnerships

• Broadband services- More emphasis on “public” revenues, next to commercial

revenues (healthcare, safety, education, traffic, etc.)- Launching customer

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Questions?