Government Regulators & Industry Bodies

National Broadband Infrastructure Monitoring, Reporting, Benchmarking & International Competitive Intelligence for Government, Industry Regulators & Policy Makers

Worldwide, there is recognition of the benefits of "liberalizing" the telecommunications sector through the introduction of competition and the privatization of telecommunications carriers. The main objective for this reform is to increase accessibility, quality and affordability of services. This immediate objective has broader societal benefits, because the availability and affordability of modern, reliable communications services are crucial to the ability of all sectors of an economy to attract foreign investment and compete in today's global markets and thus are essential prerequisites to overall national economic development.

As a result of this, Governments and Regulatory bodies are focusing on the deployment of broadband communications networks and unbundling of the Local Loop (LLU) services as a critical issue for the communications industry and as a major stimulator of national and global economies.

Technology Options for Broadband Services
Broadband Policy Frameworks typically visualize creation of infrastructure through various access technologies which can contribute to growth and can mutually coexist. Spread of infrastructure is a must for healthy competition and therefore it would be the endeavor of Regulation that the telecommunication infrastructure growth in a country is not compromised in any manner.

Today, various access technologies include:

• DSL on copper loop;
• Unbundled (LLU) DSL
• Fibre-based Technologies (FTTx)
• Cable Services;
• 3G Wireless Services (HSxPA);
• 4G Wireless Services (WiMAX & LTE);
• Satellite Services;

Epitiro's comprehensive ISP-I Platform, once deployed, is the definitive Monitoring & Reporting service to monitor the availability and performance of the Provider network across all access technologies.

An effective ISP-I implementation will :

• serve as independent advisor to Government on broadband;
• seek to be a 'critical knowledgeable friend' to government;
• build a consensus view to create a coherent plan to help achieve the Government's Broadband goal;
• be open to all stakeholders to contribute to our work;
• seek to remain commercially and technologically neutral and act in what it believes is the Country's best interests;
• Drive National revenues & increase GDP by improving the availability of revenue-producing services;