Strategy analyses of Taiwan's broadband local loops

• Main Authors: Hsiao, Chih-Ching, 蕭之晴
• Other Authors: Shyue-Win Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27704425398466385790

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 電機工程學系 === 102 === Well deployment of broadband network can be expected to not only drive the market of information and communications technology (ICT) but also can enhance country's international competition. Furthermore, broadband local loop is the key pipe for achieving digital convergence. Most of countries have faced on the issue that how to establish an open, healthy, and fair competition of broadband local loop environment. The same for Taiwan, before the communication policy planning, we need a clear vision of the direction of the national broadband network. Some observations and suggestions for Taiwan's broadband local loops are therefore proposed. Telecommunications markets are born with a characteristic of monopoly due to its history, which always what the government would keep an eye on. Telecommunications regulation agencies have great concerns for urging an open competition that allows effective competition and ensures people’s rights for fair access to the media, applications, and services. The experiences from other countries, just only privatization can not achieve a competitive market efficiency, it's important to regulate the telecommunications structure. United States of America and Japan chose the Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) procedure to solve the entry of barriers, United Kingdom employed function separation to enforce solve monopoly problem, and Australia created a National Broadband Network Company (NBN) to solve monopoly problem. This study suggest that maybe we can modify the current operations of asymmetric regulation, and create a management power unit to the significant market power (SMP) company. Government supports the establishment of fiber from the cabinet to the home side and then open it to all the telecommunications operators. In conclusion, I suggest that Taiwan can develop our new telecommunications structure.