Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)4/FINAL Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 02-Mar-2006 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ English - Or. English DIRECTORATE FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION, COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS POLICY Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)4/FINAL Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policies THE IMPLICATIONS OF WiMAX FOR COMPETITION AND REGULATION English - Or. English JT03204793 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)4/FINAL FOREWORD This report was presented to the Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policies in June 2005 and was declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in October 2005. The report was prepared by Taylor Reynolds of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. It is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. c OECD / c OCDE 2 DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)4/FINAL TABLE OF CONTENTS KEY FINDINGS............................................................................................................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION TO WIMAX .................................................................................................................... 7 WiMAX and IEEE 802.16 .......................................................................................................................... 8 Reach and speeds ........................................................................................................................................ 8 Costs.......................................................................................................................................................... 10 WiMAX overlap with other technologies ................................................................................................. 10 Complementary and competitive technologies ......................................................................................... 11 Evolution of WCDMA: HSDPA, HSUPA, Super 3G........................................................................... 11 Evolution of CDMA2000 ...................................................................................................................... 12 Mobile-Fi (IEEE 802.20)....................................................................................................................... 12 Interactions with Wi-Fi ............................................................................................................................. 13 The role of WiMAX.................................................................................................................................. 14 The uncertain road ahead .......................................................................................................................... 15 Status of rollout......................................................................................................................................... 16 REGULATORY ISSUES............................................................................................................................. 18 Spectrum ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Allocation .............................................................................................................................................. 18 Spectrum and mobility........................................................................................................................... 20 WiMAX and 3G........................................................................................................................................ 21 Technological neutrality............................................................................................................................ 22 Quality of service ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Port blocking & traffic structuring ........................................................................................................ 24 Next-generation networks ......................................................................................................................... 26 Interconnection.......................................................................................................................................... 29 Security, Privacy and Safety ..................................................................................................................... 29 Surveillance ........................................................................................................................................... 29 Law enforcement ................................................................................................................................... 30 Safety..................................................................................................................................................... 30 Universal service....................................................................................................................................... 30 COUNTRY EXAMPLES............................................................................................................................. 32 Australia .................................................................................................................................................... 32 Austria....................................................................................................................................................... 32 Belgium..................................................................................................................................................... 32 Canada....................................................................................................................................................... 32 Denmark.................................................................................................................................................... 33 Finland....................................................................................................................................................... 33 France........................................................................................................................................................ 33 Germany.................................................................................................................................................... 34 Ireland ....................................................................................................................................................... 34 Japan.......................................................................................................................................................... 34 Korea......................................................................................................................................................... 35 3 DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)4/FINAL Luxembourg .............................................................................................................................................. 35 Netherlands ............................................................................................................................................... 35 New Zealand ............................................................................................................................................. 35 Spain.......................................................................................................................................................... 35 Switzerland................................................................................................................................................ 35 Sweden ...................................................................................................................................................... 36 United Kingdom........................................................................................................................................ 36 United States ............................................................................................................................................. 36 NATIONAL WIMAX POLICIES................................................................................................................ 37 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................................................. 54 NOTES ......................................................................................................................................................... 56 Boxes Box 1. Confusion around the term “WiMAX”............................................................................................ 8 Box 2. Internet access on trains via WiMAX............................................................................................ 14 Box 3. Nomadic connectivity via pre-WiMAX equipment......................................................................