Debunking the 25 Myths of Fair Share
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Strand Consult’s Global Research Project for Broadband Cost Recovery, Affordability, and Fair Share
Broadband Cost Recovery is a rational, linear process to recoup costs to build and run networks with an accurate accounting, assessment, and attribution of value. It encompasses the business models and policies to recoup costs and improve affordability by increasing the base of financial contributions.
For more than 25 years, Strand Consult has researched and published reports and analyses on the economics of telecommunications networks. We have chronicled the rise and evolution of network technologies, their business models and regulation. Strand Consult studies these challenges around the world and assembles this information to make a global picture for its readers.
While policymakers recognize the digital divide, Covid-19 galvanized the effort to address it. The 2021 report by the ITU and UNESCO ,“21st Century Financing Models for Bridging Broadband Connectivity Gaps” observes an global gap of USD $2 trillion in broadband network investment. Global internet adoption has stalled at half of the world’s population for lack of access and affordability. The report calls for a modernization of broadband policy and financing which incorporates financial contributions from the largest technology companies in a sustainable, predictable and efficient way.
Strand Consult launched its Global Project for Broadband Cost Recovery to inform the policy development with evidence-based assessments, policy research, and transparency efforts. This information helps operators and policymakers understand the problem at local and global levels and compare the pros and cons of different policy solutions.
Strand Consult’s Global Project for Broadband Cost Recovery focuses on the following four elements:
Effective broadband policy ensures that all people can access the internet and that networks evolve to serve a wide range of services. Most people in the developed world can access a basic set of internet services, but it is not optimal. The Covid pandemic increased the urgency for universal broadband as people had to learn, work, and receive healthcare from home. More largely, the internet increasingly drives the economy and productivity and is becoming the key medium for the delivery of government services. Ensuring essential social benefit services online may be frustrated by the proliferation of video streaming.
Strand Consult’s Global Project for Broadband Cost Recovery provides a library of valuable reports and research notes as well as education and training for policymakers about this critical challenge and opportunity.
Strand Consult is an independent provider of research and analysis in the fields of mobile telecommunications, information technology, and public policy. An important part of our work is to create…
The Danish Parliament’s Climate, Energy and Utilities Committee ’s published a 4-page document titled “Danish non-paper on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the future of the electronic communications sector…
The cost to manage video streaming in broadband networks is growing 2-3 times faster than revenue, frustrating broader investment and affordability goals. Strand Consult’s new report Broadband Cost Recovery: A…
Analysys Mason is a respected international consultancy whose reports inform the policymaking process. It has produced a series of reports commissioned by US tech companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon,…
Strand Consult aims to be both tough and knowledgeable when it comes to broadband policy. We reject the premise of “fair share” contributions to connectivity as no one can agree…
This is Strand Consult’s 20th year of coverage of the Mobile World Congress (MWC). This pre Research Note covers the event’s themes and keynotes and offers critical reflections of the…
There is discussion now in policy circles is the notion of “fair share” and “fair contribution” to broadband networks. Let’s just say what everyone knows: nothing in life is fair….
Strand Consult has followed the mobile telecom industry for more than 26 years and has published predictions for the last 22. See the collection. This research note reviews the highs…
Reports and papers have emerged over the last year in the global debate for broadband fair cost recovery. Some reports, like that commissioned by the German government, reflect the need…
Strand Consult has followed the development of South Korea for more than two decades. In the early 2000s Strand Consult demonstrated how South Korea, not Japan as many believed, made…
Europe lacks some €300 billion in investment to achieve next generation broadband goals. An accumulation of misguided EU telecom regulation has sent capital to more favorable investment regions, like the…
At the annual FT-ETNO panel The Future of the EU Internet ecosystem – How should all digital actors contribute to a gigabit future? in Brussels Monday, Google’s EMEA President Matt…
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