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 prepared a report for BT to accompany their submission to Ofcom on future broadband market development, the impacts of alternative forms of regulation (including anchor product regulation) on investment incentives and on the value of a commitment to continue to forebear from price regulation of fibre.
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[…]
Governments across the world have developed policies to ensure that all citizens have access to broadband. Given these policies is the concept of universal service still relevant? If so, how should universal service be redefined? And what is the most cost-effective way to deliver universal broadband access?