This report provides an independent assessment of the Norwegian Post and Telecommunication Authority (NPT) draft decision on how to regulate the broadband market in Norway over the next three years. In the assessment Plum set out where the NPT’s decision is likely to be against the public interest and/or inconsistent with European Commission guidance. Plum[…]
Plum provided an opinion on the ACM’s December 2012 ruling on how KPN should be regulated in the fibre-to-the-office (FTTO) market in the Netherlands. Plum assessed whether the ruling was reasonable and in the public interest. This ruling stipulated that KPN must supply its existing passive fibre connections to access seekers (and specified a price[…]
Plum prepared a report appraising proposals from the Law Commission for a new Electronic Communications Code. This Code will provide the legal framework within which communications providers with code powers can acquire rights to install and operate electronic communications in, on, or over, land. Plum’s report shows how a small number of these proposals would[…]
The GSMA has published an independent study by Plum to assess the economic value of eight major applications of spectrum. These include mobile services, wireless LANs, terrestrial broadcasting and satellite broadcasting. The study estimated the consumer surplus generated by the eight applications for the EU 27 in 2013 and 2023. The chart below summarises our findings.[…]
Plum provided the GSMA with independent estimates of the economic value of eight major applications of spectrum. These applications included mobile services, wireless LANs, terrestrial broadcasting, and satellite broadcasting. The consumer surplus generated by these applications was estimated across the EU 27 member states in 2013 and 2023. In each case the methodology and assumptions[…]
Plum conducted a study for ETNO of developments since the last review of the telecommunications market in Europe in 2007 and their implications for the list of relevant markets susceptible to regulation. The study considered technology and market developments since the last review and anticipated to 2015 and beyond. The study also took into account[…]
This study, for the Government of Oman, proposed a strategy for rolling out affordable basic broadband to everybody in Oman within three years and high-speed broadband to virtually everyone within eight years. The benefits of such a strategy are considerable. There is now a substantial body of evidence which demonstrates that universal use of broadband-based[…]
In Europe, the 1.4 GHz band (i.e. 1452-1492 MHz) is being harmonized for a mobile supplemental downlink (SDL). It is possible that we will see harmonized use of the 1.4 GHz band for a SDL across European countries partially from 2013 and fully from 2015. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region could also[…]
Plum assessed the economic benefits from using the 1.4 GHz band for a supplemental downlink for the delivery of enhanced mobile multimedia and broadband services in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Ericsson and Qualcomm commissioned Plum to provide an assessment of the economic benefits of using 1.4 GHz spectrum for a mobile data downlink (the report is available here). In October 2012 the CEPT decided to allow use of the band for mobile, drawing on the Plum economic study and other technical work (the decision is[…]