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Inventory of Telecommunication Infrastructure

in Poland

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Why did we decide to consider mapping telecom infrastructure and create a special law few years ago ?

The main reason was... very low penetration

Other reasons :

• increased investment in the telecommunication sector• accelerated investments co – financed by EU funds• removal of investment barriers in telecommunication infrastructure

• accelerated construction of new generation networks

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Broadband Act 1/2

Allows local government units and public utility units to:• build and exploit telecommunication infrastructure;• supply telecommunication network/provide access to telecommunication infrastructure;• provision of telecommunication services;

Facilitates access to infrastructure of public utility units for building up public telecommunication networks (using synergies);

Requires the President of the OEC to draw up an inventory of existing telecommunications infrastructure and public telecommunications networks on the territory of Poland;

Facilitates telecommunication companies access to buildings in order to provide telecommunication services;

Makes impossible creating non-location telecommunications infrastructure rules in local zoning plans and grants the President of OEC the right of appeal against illegal provisions of the local zoning plans;

Lays down specific rules regarding the localization of regional broadband networks.

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Broadband Act 2/2

Provides a legal grounds of drawing up the inventory of existing telecommunication infrastructure and public telecommunication networks on the territory of Poland with a separate indication of coverage of the country by:

• optic links;• wireless networks;• building to enable collocation.

Institutions obliged to provide the President of the OEC with data on telecommunications infrastructure are:

• state and local government entities (with exceptions);• public utility units;• telecommunication companies;

Commits to ongoing review and update of the inventory, not less frequently than once a year

The scope of the inventory data published in the Information Broadband Infrastructure System;

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The Information Broadband Infrastructure System (SIIS)

It’s a computer system for gathering, processing, presenting and sharing information about telecommunications infrastructure, public telecommunication networks and buildings to enable collocation;

implemented within The Information Broadband Infrastructure System Projectand Polish Broadband Portal (SIPS). The Project is implemented by:

• Institute of Communication (Polish research unit), • Office of Electronic Communication • Ministry of Infrastructure

funded by the Operational Programme Innovative Economy 2007 - 2013 ;

Access

Distribution

Backbone

Nodes

Network model implemented in regulation

Addresses supplied byaccess network

Connections ( mainly FO )

Connection notinvented

Network 1

Network 2

Network NInterconnect Node:• Location ( address )• Transmission Medium ( FO, RL, Cable ...)• Transmission technology ( ATM, SDH, PDH, Ethernet …)• Throughput

Network Interconnection

Architektura sieci FTTC w technice PON w dystrybucji plus techniki xDSL

Access NodeDistribution Nodes

Interconnection Point

Interfaces

Poradnik dla Samorządów część 1 –budowa sieci

Coverage

FTTH - AON and Ethernet

Access/Distribution Node

Coverage

Coverage

Access Node

We can describe each particular cable to the home or leave network description on access node . We should remember that cables from last node to

the home are cables with low number of pair and usually operator doesn’t want to lease free capacity.

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North

Azymuth

Radius

BTS with sector antennas

Sector angle

Radio model

Geographical coordination of BTS Radioline

For big and medium telecoms • XML with detailed XSD structure

For small telecoms• Electronic forms

Format of input data about infrastructure

Statistic

Statistic

Support

Average response time52 min.

Work Flow system for calling and monitoring problems

Test version of portal

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Map in different scale:

Topographic

Ortophoto map

Orto-photo Building level

Telecom infrastructure:

Nodes Optical lines : Optical lines to lease

Thematic maps and GIS analyses

Infrastructure per communityNumber of operators per community

Broadband Internet penetration for action 8.4

Grid analyses (250*250, CMC13, census area , post code ....)Each cell can represents .:

-number of buildings- density

- Internet speed- No. of Internet suppliers

- No. of FO nodes / access

Grid analyses (250*250, CMC13, census area , post code ....)Each cell can represents .:

-number of buildings- density

- Internet speed- No. of Internet suppliers

- No. of FO nodes / access

3D

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Investment trends

Plans

Implementation

Statystyki

NodesLines

Connectinglines

Interconnectpoints Buildings

• February 2011 - System SIIS ready to use

• March 2011 - more than 9000 state and local government entities, telecom operators and public utility units were asked for „broadband data”

• May 2011 - formatting, clearing and validation of received data

• June 2011 - First report of Office of Electronic Communications about broadband telecom infrastructure

• July – November 2011 – new version of SIIS 2.0 with improved data input functionality, dedicated functionality for reports and presentation of infrastructure on the maps.

• SIIS is ready to collect new extra data like services and operator investment.• March-April 2012 – second inventory process -done

• June 2012 – Second report of Electronic Communications about broadband telecom infrastructure, services and investment new feature in data base

• July – November 2012 of SIIS 3.x• March - April 2013 third inventory process• June – November 2013 =SIIS 4.0

Inventory Project status and future plans

The data is used for the purposes of:

• telecommunications operators, as well as for other entities possessing/investing in telecommunications infrastructure,

• local self-government and other local government units, • Regional Operational Programme and the "Eastern Poland" Operational

Programmme during notifications to the EU of plans for the roll-out of regional broadband networks,

• issuing opinions with regard to public resources expenditure on the roll-out of telecommunications networks by local self-government authorities,

• other investors, • consumers.

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3Two spectacular examples of usage of result of Infrastructure inventory

Lack of Access Network

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Inventory indicator helps adjust Purchasing Power Index

PPI helps us to understand market phenomenon and define the right market

Inventory outcomes

International supermarket chain operating on the territory of Poland for the projectlaunch online sales applied to the UKE on the data of the penetration of Internet access services at the municipal level.Supermarket chain management expects that this information will help to find optimal location for market with e-sales functionality.

Three areas which may potentially benefit from mapping

What range of information do we need?

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Demand side: Supply side State aid issues

Broadband maps

Inventories of developed telecom infrastructure

Maps of civil engineering infrastructureswhich may be used for Brodband

deployment

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Purpose: for Regulators/Governments to:•provide information about the telecom infrastructure developed on the territory of the country which is needed to:•take the decisions regarding the State Aid;•decide on the geographical segmentation within the market analysis process (i.e. markets 4 and 5);•provide operators with the information about the possible accesspoints.What information is presented:•Detailed information about the networks developed;•Information about the planned roll-outs?Issues:• Confidentiality will always be an issue leading all the project;• Approaches for co-operation with operators, e.g. agreements,obligations, laws…

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Problems

Pure quality of data

Integrated DataBaseData:•Wrong•Duplicated•Incomplete•Outdated•Incorrectly formatted

Stages of data cleansing

Verification

Standardization

Duplication

Completion

Sources

Dictionaries:•Addresses•Technology•Transmission systems

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Thank you for your attention

www.uke.gov.pl

m.sliz@uke.gov.pl

Marzena ŚlizOffice of Electronic CommunicationsDepartment of Infrastructure Development