Frank, if MCIWorldcom religious zeal plus Cisco's 'New World' will wire 82 cities in the US and skim the cream of the market, will access for telecommunications for the public be provided by the municipalities?
We have already the example of the Palo Alto initiative, but the Europeans are going for this type of service provision as well.
Please, take a look at this conference that take place in Paris last March:
What Telecom Startegies are municipalities and Operators Adopting?
Regulations and Case
Studies
09.00 Welcome and registration
09.30 Keynote address
Metropolitan telecommunications networks: how to
raise the barriers to the local loop. From a general
overview of the lack of competition in the access link
to various methods of intervening in the local loop.
Agnes HUET, p-dg, Comptoir des Signaux
What are the Regulations?
What are the Stakes?
10.00 - The intervention of local municipalities in the
area of telecoms: objectives and legitimacy
Nature of the economic and strategic stakes for
groups of public and private users in local townships.
Utilization of good resources (basements, city
property and bandwidth).
Etienne ANDREUX, General Manager, SIPPEREC
(Syndicat Intercommunal de la Périphérie de Paris
pour l'Electricité et les Réseaux de Communications)
10.30 - Applying the European Competition Law to
telecommunications
Notions of essential facilities and of the dominant
position. Exercising the EU Competition Law on
people and public entities. The judicial precedents set
by the Court of Justice. What are the consequences
of these rulings on local municipalities?
Sophie GARNIER, Lawyer
11.00 - Coffee break
11.15 - Germany: A Precursor
Home to the first local municipalities to hold operator
licenses, Germany is a pioneer among member
States. Evolution of the national legislation as applied
to the local loop. Complementary nature between
unbundling the access link and federating metropolitan
networks.
Stefan SATTLER, Consultant, Certus Consultancy
11.45 - France: A singular communal approach to dark
fiber infrastructures
The expertise of local municipalities in
telecommunications. Risk of a restrictive interpretation
of the public law from the legal viewpoint of the EU law
on telecoms intervention. Synopsis of the juridical
debate on this topic.
Didier SEBAN, Lawyer, SEBAN Law Offices
12.15 - Debate: Rendering Telecommunications a
Local Public Service?
Moderator: Agnes HUET
Guests: Sophie GARNIER, Didier SEBAN (SEBAN
Law Offices),
Stefan SATTLER (Certus), France Telecom (to be
confirmed),
Etienne ANDREUX (SIPPEREC)
12.45 - Lunch
Case Studies
14.00 - The role of local municipalities in setting up
telecom services
ANCARA (Advanced Networked Cities and Regions
Association). Examples of metropolitan networks
around the world. Telecom operator and large cities
join forces to roll out high-speed infrastructures.
Kees ROVERS, Executive Director, ANCARA
14.30 - Stokab: metropolitan operator of a dark fiber
network
The city and county of Stockholm are at the origin of
the first dark fiber metropolitan network open to
operators. Return on investments for Stokab after six
years of operation.
Cécilia Fraenkel, International Affairs Division, AB
Stokab
15.00 - NetCologne: Unbundling techniques
Feedback from the first German “city carrier” trial
taking advantage of the unbundling of Deutsche
Telekom. The complementary aspect between a
fiber-optic federating network and Deutsche
Telekom's unbundled copper access links.
Speaker to be announced
15.30 - Coffee break
15.45 - The District of Greater Toulouse: Rolling out
and operating a dark fiber network
The city planning and economic development
objectives of an inter-community network. The role
and functions of a non-operator network manager.
Marc BEL, General Manager, District of Greater
Toulouse
16.15 - The Urban Community of Greater Nancy: A
network to welcome operators
The inactive metropolitan fiber network rolled out in
Nancy can already answer the explosive needs of
universities and municipalities for more bitrate.
Guillaume DESFORGES Department of Economic
Affairs, Greater Nancy
16.45 - WIN (Francophone Belgium Internet Intranet)
Network
A high-speed metropolitan network developed by the
Walloon Government and available to third-parties.
The infrastructure interconnects Brussels, Liège,
Namur, Charleroi, Mons and Tournai.
François BODART, Telecoms expert, Walloon
Government advisor, Ministry of National and Regional
Development
17.15 - Debate
Metropolitan networks set up by county townships:
Opening the market to free competition or rebuilding
local monopolies?
Moderator: Etienne ANDREUX, (SIPPEREC)
Guests: Nadine BEREZAK (Eutelis),
Marc GAUCHE, (French Department of Tarn),
François BODART, (Walloon Government),
Kees ROVERS (ANCARA)
Tuesday March 30th 1999:
Driver Services and
Operators Strategies
The Driver Services of a
Metropolitan Network
09.30 - Municipal telecom services at the European
level
EU aid for developing trans-European information
networks between cities and regions. Feedback from
projects (tele-access to municipal services,
tele-management, tele-assistance, tele-teaching).
Olivier PASCAL, European Commission, DG XIII-
TEN-Telecom Programme
10.00 - The Centrex in metropolitan networks
The interest for companies and public bodies in
deporting PBX functions on the network and
sub-contracting their management to service
providers. Types of services proposed and
economies of scale made.
Daniel BLAIS, Marketing Department, Matra-Nortel
10.30 - The TLS solution
Local network interconnection offerings: technologies
utilized, bandwidth management. Choice of the
transport protocol and justifications: ATM or Gigabit
Ethernet. Services proposed. Integrating Internet
traffic.
Representative from 3COM
11.00 - Coffee break
11.15 - ATM's potential for supplying services
The federating role of ATM for supplying multimedia
services within a metropolitan network. Private virtual
networks. ATM/ADSL integration.
Bruno DURAND, Operator and ISP OEMA Director,
Fore Systems
11.45 - Internet-Extranet services: The SIPPEREC
example
From a GIX Internet project to setting up pilot
tele-services in the 80 communities located in the
outskirts of Paris.
Laurent ROCHETTE, Head of the SIPPEREC
Telecoms Mission
12.15 - Sharing technical platforms
Telecoms facilities management available to network
operators in regional cities. Sharing the maintenance
and running of operators' POPs (Points of Presents).
Financial advantages.
Denis TISSERON, Manager, Executive Télécom
12.45 - Lunch
14.00 - Interaction of call centers and ISPs with the
MAN
Sources of revenue generated by new local loop to
interconnect high density traffic centers. Examples
given by a call center and an ISP.
Dominique CIUPA, Solutions Executive, LUCENT
Technologies
The Response of Incumbent
Operators
and the Initiatives of New
Entrants
in Metropolitan Networks
14.30 - France Telecom's high-speed service
offerings
Transporting voice/data/video traffic. High
performance service catalogue: OMA (ATM
multiservices offering), SMHD (high-speed multi-site
services). Personalized offerings and metropolitan
network references.
Loïc MARTIN, Director of the Product and Service
Marketing Department for Local Municipalities, France
Telecom
15.00 - Telecom Italia: Example of the PEGASE
regional network in Tuscany
The Tuscany region and Telecom Italia have built a
regional network to federalize and interconnect
different public services (health, vocational training,
employment and tourism, etc.). The objective is to
facilitate the exchange of information and manage the
synergy and complementary aspect of each.
Participant from Telecom Italia
15.30 - Coffee break
15.45 - Estel: Trials and tributes of a regional telco
operator in eastern France
Estel, subsidiary of Electricité de Strasbourg and
Swisscom, is going to propose telecom services to
Alsatian residents as of 1999. Description of the
collaboration with the EST Videocommunications
cable network, another subsidiary of Electricité de
Strasbourg.
Philippe KELLER, General Manager, Estel
16.15 - 9Telecom: Complementarity between dark
fiber and radio local loop infrastructures
The last mile constitutes the main challenge for new
operators. The radio local loop is one solution.
Diagram of a fiber-optic metropolitan network
federating radio emitters. Descriptions of trials
underway.
Patrick BELLIN, Director of Development of New
Markets, 9 Telecom
16.45 - Round table
What role do local municipalities play in the strategy of
incumbent and new entrants?
17.15 - End of the conference |
