Global - Industry - Wholesale Markets

Synopsis

Wholesale Internet (IP Transit) bandwidth prices continued to fall in 2008 due to declining unit costs and rising competition. Despite the economic crisis, bandwidth price declines have not yet sped up – due partly to yearly bandwidth contracts that are still to be renewed over the next 6-12 months. The growing Internet economy will ensure that the increased demand for wholesale IP bandwidth will continue in the longer term, however the financial crisis may impact upon bandwidth demand in the short term. This report provides an overview of the wholesale market with a focus on international wholesale.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. International wholesale market overview 2008/2009
  
  • 2.1 Consolidation continues
    
  • 2.2 Unbundling evens the score
    
  • 2.3 Value-add based on IP and broadband
    
  • 2.4 Wholesale interconnection
    
  • 2.5 The effects of VoIP
    
  • 2.6 Mobile wholesale remains underdeveloped
    
• 3. Wholesale customer categories
  
• 4. Key wholesale services
  
  • 4.1 Unconditioned Local Loop Services (ULLS)
    
  • 4.2 Line sharing or spectrum sharing
    
  • 4.3 Local Carriage Service (LCS)
    
  • 4.4 Unbundled BitStream (UBS)
    
  • 4.5 UBS vs ULL
    
  • 4.6 Naked DSL
    
• 5. Open Access Principles – case study: Australia
  
  • 5.1 Wholesale Industry Group (WIG)
    
    • 5.1.1 Wholesale Access Principles
      
• 6. Dark fibre
  
  • 6.1 Global infrastructure nearing collapse
    
  • 6.2 Wild growth in local access
    
  • 6.3 Dark fibre providers setting the scene
    
  • 6.4 Expect the bust in 2012/2013
    
• 7. National wholesale markets
  
  • 7.1 Facilities Based Carriers
    
  • 7.2 Switch Based Resellers
    
  • 7.3 Switchless Resellers
    
• 8. Brief case study – KPN, the Netherlands
  
  • 8.1 Background
    
  • 8.2 Wholesaling
    
    • 8.2.1 Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
      
• 9. Related reports
  

• Table 1 - Bandwidth price declines by percentage in Sao Paulo; Tokyo; London; Bucharest; San Francisco – 2007 – 2008
• Table 2 – KPN wholesale operating statistics – 2007 - 2008