ICT Connectivity

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ICT Connectivity

• Edinburgh Business Assembly
• Brendan Dick

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The ICT Journey

• Broadband in the UK
• How do we compare?
• The story in Scotland Edinburgh
• Why do we want ICT?
• Next generation what next?

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Broadband in the UK

• World leading availability _at_ 99.6

• World leading take up _at_ 60 of households

• World leading competition and prices

• UK will have world-leading speeds and capacity
  through Next Generation Broadband

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Building on Success Broadband availability
DSL Coverage by country June 2007
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99
97
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82
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OECDWeightedAverage
Source OECD Telecommunications Database
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The story in Scotland Edinburgh

• Current connectivity as good as anywhere in UK
• Demand across technologies is high
• Knowledge economy drives usage
• Competitive retail market for ICT services
• But.
• Do we tell the story well?

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Why do we want ICT?

• Business ICT adoption will continue to generate
  positive economic impact
• Global reports suggest it delivers 3-4
  productivity uplift.
• 60 of new business start up at home
• Critical to education skills
• Central to flexibility of work, employment and
  the environmental agenda
• Vital to maintain Edinburghs position as a
  global city

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Next generation What next?

• 21CN network deployment has begun
• Superfast Broadband is here and coming from a
  variety of providers..

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Super-fast Broadband BTs July Announcement

• We will provide a service capability on an
  
• equivalent basis to all CPs
• Deployment locations must be commercially
• viable
• Subject to achieving regulatory clarity

• Roll out will be demand-led, based on CP
  commitment to Openreach
• We want to build on the success of Broadband
  Britain in working with local/devolved government
• Local/devolved government can help achieve and
  assess viable levels of demand
• BT will offer super-fast access from Openreach
  and also a Wholesale offer, for CPs who dont
  wish to use their own infrastructure, from BT
  Wholesale.

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SMEs and Home-Based Businesses

• Super-fast broadband will offer much more
  upstream bandwidth which could mean
• Greater location flexibility for
• Businesses with specific upload requirements -
  architects, designers, media companies..
• Businesses delivering or using software as a
  service
• More powerful services for small to medium-sized
  offices
• Easier, faster and cheaper back-up of valuable
  and essential files for disaster recovery and
  archiving
• Multiple simultaneous accesses to the internet
• The capability to have several voice calls
  underway simultaneously, either broadband voice
  or else integrated fixed/mobile voice
• e.g. using a new generation of small base
  station (a femtocell) connected to the
  broadband network

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More Powerful Home-working Applications

• Super-fast broadband will offer near-symmetric
  capability
• which could mean
• Opportunities to extend homeworking to industries
  and professions needing very large files shared
  or transferred
• Tele-medicine e.g. collaborative assessment of
  X-rays and other images
• Media/film/advertising/design
• Increased capability to use interactive,
  video-rich web applications from home
• Online training
• IP video conferencing
• Tele-presence applications
• Web-casts
• Enhanced user experience of concurrent
  applications suchas LiveMeeting, email, web
  surfing
• Greater opportunity for effective homeshoring
  of work.
• Remote call centre agents with full two-way
  video supporting CRM applications

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Economic and Enterprise Growth

• Pervasive super-fast broadband in a Region should
  support
• Thin client computing, particularly for schools
  and schoolchildren at home access to course
  materials, textbooks and homework programmes
  with
• Reduced cost
• Improved security
• Better performance
• No PC to get 'lost'
• Attractiveness for new and relocating businesses
  and their staff
• Enhanced BT 21CN enterprise offer in terms of
• Access speed
• Response times
• Shared access infrastructure
• Speed of provision
• Speed of repair (improving the client experience)
  
• Potentially reducing costs or increasing value
  for money

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Sounds goodwhat will it take to make it all
happen?
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What next?

• What should Edinburgh do?
• Drive usage
• Engage CPs
• Use ICT in global promotional material
• What should Scotland do?
• Drive usage
• Engage CPs
• Use ICT in global promotional material
• Consider intervention for rural areas / areas of
  low demand as NGA deployment happens

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ICT Connectivity

• Edinburgh Business Assembly
• Questions

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