This document discusses opportunities and challenges for broadband development in China. It summarizes the experiences of the US broadband industry, including: (1) how competition drove down prices and improved services; (2) the importance of reducing costs to improve profitability; and (3) how regulations shaped the development of different services. It also examines trends in user behavior and emerging technologies that could impact China's broadband development.
2. What is this all about?
China cable and telecom industries are
migrating from state-owned to market-driven
industries….
But what to do and why….
Learn from US experience after the bubble,
with so different regulatory environment?
Maybe….
3. KEY ISSUES
Business
Opportunities
Operations Regulatory
Reality
Wall Street
Perception Environment
Cost Structure
( technology platform)
4. AN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD
Service &
Technology Regulation
Operation
HBO, Cost-
HFC FCC Cable ruling
reduction
High-capacity,
DWDM Broke up of Ma Bell
lower-cost
CM/DSL HSD Title 1
Micro Processor Excel
6. THE RESIDENTIAL PIE: US
Cable Dominates ILECs Dominates Cable Leads
Video Market Voice Market High-Speed Data
Market
Video Voice Data
Cable ILECs Other
Source: Paul Kagan Associates
7. TELEPHONY USAGE: CHINA
700 Telecom System Revenue: 1Q 2004
600
Fixed Line Mobile
Data Paging
Sat
500 6% 0%
mn sub
Local
400 32%
300
200
Mobile
100 43%
0 LD
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 19%
100.0
90.0
80.0
Competition further Fixed
drives down the ARPU 70.0
Mobile
60.0
50.0
1Q/02 1Q/03 1Q/04
8. OPPORTUNITIES: TRIPLE PLAY
Create a customer destination
Reduce churn
Create differentiation
Build a common platform for innovation and
gain economy of scale
Increase ARPU (Average Revenue Per Unit)
Offensively and defensively change the nature
of services and products
9. TOP THREE US CABLE COMPANIES
120% 1.1
Comcast Time Warner Cox
100% 0.9
0.83
80%
61%
58%
60% 54%
40%
36%
40% 34%
20% 20%
20% 15%17% 14%
0
0%
Basic/HHP DTV % HSD % Voice % RGU/HHP
Source: Company Data
10. THE IMPORTANCE OF
THE BOTTOM LINE:
After the bubble, it is not just
revenue…
12. US CABLE INDUSTRY EXPENDITURE
18
16
14
12
In Billions
10
8
6
4
2
0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
• Total $84 Billion capital expenditure, equates to $1,200 per customer
• With $52/month ARPU that is increasing, the 10 year ROI is huge
Source: Kagan World Media
15. HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE…
The cost for 128 kilobytes of memory will fall
below $100 in the near future.
- Creative Computing Magazine
December 1981
At $100 for 128 KB, 256 MB
would cost $200K
16. Hard Disk Storage Moore’s Law
Cost per MB Smoore’s Law!
$10,000……….…...………………………………1/10 Cent
$10,000 $60 $1.00
$0.90
$50 $0.80
$8,000
$0.70
$40
$6,000 $0.60
$30 $0.50
$4,000 $0.40
$20 $0.30
$2,000 $10
$0.20
$0.10
$0 $0 $0.00
1956 to 1985 1986 to 1993 1994 to 2004
Source: Seagate
17. VIDEO COMPRESSION
Commercial
Availability
MPEG and ITU are working
jointly on a new standard: 2008 wavelets
MPEG AVC (Advanced
2007
Video Coding).
AVC is also known as: Media Player
2006 etc.
H.264, H.26L, JVT, and H.264
MPEG-4 Part 10 2005
MPEG-4
2004
Best of breed compression
– very good for HD and SD;
Now MPEG-2
interlaced and film content;
variety of content; 1X 1.66X 3.00X 4.00+X
wide range of bit rates. Encoding Gain Factor
22. REGULATION AND BUSINESS: US
VOICE DATA VIDEO
Communication Information Content
Regulation Services Services Service
Title 2 Title 1 Title 6
Requirement Open Pipe None Franchising
Business Selling Minutes All you can Flat rate
eat buffet + Usage
23. THE “DRIVERS” FOR FTTH
Competition to Cable
MSOs has 63% share of HSD vs 37% for the carriers
Favorable regulatory climate
No unbundle requirement on FTTH
Reduced churn on voice
Bell have lost 10% of their residential line to UNE-P competition
But…..
DBS earned 18% market share of total TV HH in 5-6 years
At $1,200/HHP cost for aerial construction, and heavy
underground buildup mix, can the RBOC afford it, in time?
Verizon SBC BellSouth Qwest
Aerial 45% 28% 32% 13%
Underground 55% 72% 68% 87%
25. CHALLENGES
Cable ILEC OverBuilder
Embedded
HFC Twist Pair None
Base
Fiber deep xDSL Fiber/metallic
Upgrade DOCSIS FTTH Overlay
Business Triple Play Triple Play Niche market
Challenge BALANCE
• Migrate from one service monopoly to multi-service duopoly
• Or perhaps migrate from facility-based monopoly to
facility-independent multi-service duopoly
27. LOOKING FORWARD….
500
450
Millions of Paying Customers
400
350
300 DSL
250 Cable
200 WiMax
150 Fiber
100
50
0
2004 2007 2010
Source : John Cioffi
28. CITY-
CITY-WIDE WI-FI IN CHASKA, MN
WI-
Cityoperated, 16 square mile coverage area
Public safety, low-cost residential broadband service
7500 homes passed, 1100 pre-registered
200 cells, <$500,000 CapEx
29. KEY ISSUES
User Behavior
Regulation Technology Wall Street
Bottom Line
Notas del editor
Gordon Moore’s prediction was of course, that we would double the number of transistors every 18 months, and that has held up. That said, hard drives have actually double capacity every year. In the last few years, however, this has slowed to roughly 40%. Now, however, there is an obscure technology called Perpendicular magnetic recording or PMR. This technology allows bits to be stacked perpendicular on magnetic platters and raising the capacity by an order of magnitude while at the same time reducing power consumption. These drives are 18 months from initial production and will first show up in corporate storage systems. But after that, they will quickly find their way into other commercial and home applications. Predictions are that by the summer of 2010 Terabyte portable media devices will be available.