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Local Government Solutions Forum
Wireless Prague Project – challenges and problems
Name JAROSLAV SOLC
Date March 14 2007
Barcelona 2007
Broadband in cities
• Challenges and impacts– Knowledge society development, growth and eployment
(EC), competitiveness, effective e-government, new services …• Barriers and obstacles
– Money, awareness, comp. literacy, content, security … – Telcos: complaints for market distortion – EU: State Aid
• EUROCITIES: eRigts Charter, Broadband Manifesto• FTTx ? Wireless (combination, mobility, time and costs)
Prague, Czech Republic
• Population 1.16 mil. inhabitants (CZ Rep. – 10 mil.)• Area 496 km2• Administration
- 1 of 14 regions of the Czech Rep. - municipality (capital, statutory city)
• Internal structure: 57 districts- elected bodies, authorities- 22 of them special role (state adm.)
• City districts: – authonomy in IT, diff. services and responsibilities, dif. systems, low
interoperability – ICT infrastructure MePNet (fibre optics
• Organizations established by the City– Data producer/user, services
(urban planning, transportation, tourism)• eStrategy „Towards e-Prague 2010“, approved 2005
Broadband in CZ
• BB access in EU, households, 2006: Denmark, Netherlands (29%), Finland (25%), Belgium, Sweden (20%) …EU 25 (14.8%) …. Czech Rep. (8.4%, 17th)
WiFi situation
• CZ: – 2003 approx. 65% broadband done via WiFi
2006 still approx 40% lines rely on WiFi– Reasons: high prices of connectivity– Czech Republic is #1 in number of households connected through
unlicensed wireless line
• Prague:– Private WLAN operators:
• 4 Large (reach 40%+ Prague Metro area),• ca 15 Middle sized (around 15 AP in Prague area),• more than 30 Small and neighborhood networks
– Initiatives of City Districts• Prague 5 (pioneer, Free Internet, low end), since 2005, now 13 thous
registered users• Prague 13, Prague 8, Prague 9
• Local/Regional Govs encouraged in BB/WiFi projects by state/EU funding opportunities
• Private telcos and local WiFi providers started complaints (National Office for Protection of Competition – UOHS, European Commission) based on State Aid EU rules
Wireless Prague - city project
• Reasons – integrated approach, e-government, mobility, internal services,..... SPD2 programme (Structural funding)
• Pilot: – 1/3 of the City area, – 171 distribution points on fibre backbone, schools and administration
buildings– another 409 hotspots, altogether 580 AP, – WiFi mesh (DSL, CDMA, GPRS ... not suitable for planned services, 2
Mb/CCTV)
1
Project scheme
Fix backbone
eGovernment services of city of Prague
Wifi-mesh network
Financing :EU Fund -> CAPEXPrague -> OPEX
schoolsExtranetPrague
Financing :SP - > CAPEXPrague -> OPEX
hotspots
Wireless Prague – development, content
• 2006: project, application, tender, contract + complaints and discussions (UOHS, EC, telcos - continue)
• Implemention I/2007 – III/2008 (15 months), first 30 AP April 2007
• Costs: CAPEX: ca 3 mil. EUR, OPEX: ca 6.5 mil. EUR in 5 years, incl. backbone connectivity, network maintenance
• Phase 1 – free public access to non-commercial eGov services, internet for schools and city admin. buildings, start of new mobile services (city extranet, wifi zones, street level) Phase 2 – opening the network, partnerships with private operators and their services (planned but stopped due to complaints, UOHS/EC – competition, commitment to discuss and notify to EC)
• Prague project is for EC/DG Competition first case of Metro WiFi (not yet closed).
Wireless Prague project – public info
http://wifi.praha-mesto.cz (most in CZ)
Inspiration
• OULU
WiFi, city+university, funded by EU (ERDF), panOULU, digital inclusion, Stockholm Challenge Award 2006
Partner in Wireless Cities project (Interreg IIIC) with BOLOGNA, STUTTGART, SAN SEBASTIAN ....Poland
• TURIN
start 2006, city + AEM (utility), EKSF-TC conf. X/06, federal concept, free for seniors
• PARIS
WiFi for citizens and tourists, city buildings, lampspots, newsstands (400 hotspots next year), plan 80% of citiesens ultraBB access (fibre) by 2010
• BRUSSELS
partnership with Ozone, 64 kb/s for free, 4 Mb/s 20 EUR monthly
Inspiration ...2
UK: BIRMINGHAM, CARDIFF, EDINBURGH, LEEDS, LIVERPOOL, WESTMINSTER …
WiFi, parnership with Brtitish Telecom, Intel (PPP), 12 cities in 2007
• JERUSALEM
project Uniwire Jerusalem, free acces for citizens, other services (tourism, emergency services, video ..)
• AMSTERDAM
city + The Cloud partnerhip (open network model)
• CEE: MOSCOW, TALLINN, Slovakia....
• USA: San Francisco, Philadelphia (FAQ), Corpus Cristi, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and many others, www.muniwireless.com
• other cases presented at Wireless Cities Conference (Cannes, 29 Nov-1 Dec 2006), ww.wirelesscitiescongress.eu
Inspiration ...3 WiFi zones
Amsterdam Norfolk (UK)
Moscow
Estonia
Problems, risks
• Positions of existing telcom/WiFi operators – intention to stop the project
1. Big players associated in APVTS (complaint to the EC DG Competition), State Aid (business)
2. Local WiFi providers (complaint to UOHS – national competition authority), RF interferences 2,4 GHz
– ad 1 State aid can be problem for other cities strarting/planning wireless projects
– ad 2 RF interferences rather specific for Prague (CZ)
Generalisation
EC
• Different interests– DG Info Soc and Media – i2010, Lisbon str., – DG Regio – Structural policy, use of ERDF, ESF– DG Competition – State Aid, market distortion
• BB projects and public support– DG Compet – white (0) /grey (1) / black (>1) areas – Cities and some regions, often different situation,
leadership, innovative services, competitiveness– DG Compet – over 20 cases, notification or complaint
Solution?
• Awareness and cooperation of LR Govs
• Support by interested parties
• Guidelines (feasible models, PPPs)
• Communication !!!
Contact
Jaroslav Solc
City of Prague, Prague City Hall
(IT Department, strategic development)
Thank you for attention !
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