Conclusions

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Exploiting the broadband opportunity: lessons from South Korea and Japan

Antony WalkerDirector, IntellectCEO Broadband Stakeholder Group

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Different yes, irrelevant no!

Much to learn from both countries• Innovation• Take-up• Enablers • Inhibitors• Business models• Value and benefit

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Innovation

• Content genres similar to the UK:– music, games, video, community services,

P2P applications, VoIP, e-Learning, e-commerce etc.

• Some services more advanced, incorporating more rich media

• Higher levels of take-up• Could be approaching a tipping point

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Take up

• Market for digital content is growing rapidly • Strong demand for personalised, interactive on-

demand services and applications across a wide range of content genres.

• Online and mobile advertising revenues growing • Continued trend towards user-generated content

and social networking • IPTV and mobile TV still in their infancy - not clear

how consumers will adopt these services, but commercial interest is strong.

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Enablers

• Top down strategies – create investor confidence about government commitment

• Infrastructure competition - players seeking to compete through content

• Vertical integration - encouraged by regulators in the interests of sustainable investment

• Collaboration - between manufacturers and operators - developed platforms on which content developers can innovate.

• High-speed connections with high quality of service - essential trigger to the take up of new rich media services.

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Inhibitors

• The accelerated pace of change creating disruptive opportunities and threats for all

• Commercial uncertainty about business models, timing for market entry, technology choices, and the value of assets, delays investment

• Some players seeking to slow the pace of change as they reposition themselves

• Uncertainty about the regulatory framework for IPTV services has inhibited investment and delayed the deployment of services

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Business models

• Many services have succeeded with traditional subscription, advertising, or pay as you go business models.

• Games industry been most innovative - ‘Items selling’, now being developed by other sectors.

• Access to low cost micro-payment systems was a critical enabler for these models

• Games companies first to recognise revenue potential of communities and to monetize social networking services.

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Business models

• Larger operators focusing on ‘quadruple play’ services and fixed and wireless integration

• Some mobile operators moving to flat rate to encourage rich media take-up

• Uncertainty about biz models for mobile and IPTV services. Few believe subscription or advertising alone will be sufficient.

• Convergence is driving cooperation and alliances across the value chain, the acquisition of content assets by network operators, portals and ISPs and consolidation between operators.

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Market opportunity

• Despite significant growth, online or mobile distribution methods for digital content still only represent a very small percentage of total content sales by genre, suggesting that there is a huge opportunity for growth in these areas in the coming years.

• There are early signs in Japan of a growing interest in international and niche content, which could open up new opportunities for UK content companies.

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Social and economic change

• ICT is being prioritised as a key economic driver– Recognised implications of broadband enabled ICT for

their economic and social development. – Measuring progress in this area and its direct and

indirect contributions to society and GDP.

• ICT is being recognised as a driver of social change– Broadband and convergence are driving and enabling

diverse social and societal change. – Emergence of new community social network services

and the trend towards user generated content is shifting power towards the consumer / citizen. E.g. OhmyNews in Korea

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Visions are user centric

• U-strategies developed in close collaboration between government ministries, professional ‘think-tanks’, trade associations, technology suppliers and network operators.

• Although, supplier led, both attempt to be ‘user centric’ - putting user benefit and experience at the centre of policy and strategy.

• More forward looking, longer-term and visionary than European strategies and i2010

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Payment, identity and trust

• Critical enablers for innovation and growth and will become increasingly critical in a networked society.

• This is an area where government can play an important role in working with the industry to ensure a benign user environment in the ubiquitous networked society.

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NGA – leap of faith

• Fibre deployment expensive and ambitious• No evidence of a clear business case • Believe demand for bandwidth will grow and

that new services require guaranteed QoS in the access layer

• Unlikely that operators would have come to this conclusion without strong government and supplier backing

• Policy makers and suppliers focused on export potential of international markets

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China

Japan and Korea are responding to China– Korea and Japan feel the heat of competition

from China’s burgeoning economy more acutely than we do in Europe.

– Aware of China’s scale impact on the ICT sector

– Prioritised ICT leadership and exploitation as part of their strategic response to China’s growing economic and political influence.

Recommendations

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EU Comms Framework Review – DTI/ Ofcom

• Strong trends towards vertical integration and consolidation in Korea and Japan

• Regulatory approaches being taken in these markets should be assessed in more detail

• Determine whether they offer useful lessons that could be applied in the current review of the EU framework.

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Establish UK Digital Readiness Index – ONS.

• There is a measurement philosophy in Korea and Japan – what gets measured gets done.

• The UK should establish effective metrics to assess the UK’s digital readiness.

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Focus on payment, identity & trust – DTI

• In an increasingly networked society, the challenges of ensuring a safe and trusted user environment will increase.

• UK government and industry should be enhancing their collaborative efforts now, to address issues that will be critical to consumers in five years time.

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Strategic initiatives

a. Review options for Next Generation Access (NGA) deployment and publish a plan – DTI/ BSG.

– The UK will need to develop its own mid- to long-term route map for the evolution towards NGA in the UK.

b. Digital health for patient-centred care – DTI/DOH

– Although not the primary focus of this mission, there are clearly significant and economic and social benefits to be gained from the diffuse application of ICT in patient centred-healthcare. More could be learned form the Asian experience in this area

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Strategic initiatives

c. Connected car and connected roads KTN – DTI/DOT

– Both Japan and Korea are seeking to exploit the application of ICT in transport for economic, social and environmental benefit. A connected cars initiative in the UK could build on the recent Intelligent Networks Foresight study.

d. Digital Olympics challenge – DTI/DCMS/ IAPThe relevance of the Ubiquitous Networked Society Vision should be considered in the context of 2012 Olympics.

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Follow-up missions on IPTV – Intellect

• Many forms and flavours of IPTV services are emerging in Japan and Korea.

• Consumer reaction to these services and the evolution of the related business models will be instructive for UK players

• Follow-up mission in this area would be valuable for UK companies.

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Review the impact of China– DTI/FCO

• The strategies being developed in Japan and Korea are, in part, incentivised by a recognition of the potential impact that China will have on the global ICT market.

• DTI should consider undertaking a review of the strategic impact of China on the UK