Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)12/FINAL Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 07-Apr-2006 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ English - Or. English DIRECTORATE FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION, COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS POLICY Unclassified DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)12/FINAL Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policies MULTIPLE PLAY: PRICING AND POLICY TRENDS English - Or. English JT03207142 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)12/FINAL FOREWORD This report was presented to the Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policies in December 2005 and was declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2006. The report was prepared by Mr. Yoshikazu Okamoto and Mr. 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. © OECD/OCDE 2006 2 DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)12/FINAL TABLE OF CONTENTS MAIN POINTS.............................................................................................................................................. 6 Regulatory issues........................................................................................................................................ 7 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 8 First consolidation: Multiple services via one provider ............................................................................. 9 Second consolidation: Any network for any service................................................................................ 10 EVOLUTION OF MULTIPLE-PLAY........................................................................................................ 11 The economics of multiple-play............................................................................................................... 11 Infrastructure............................................................................................................................................ 12 Wired .................................................................................................................................................... 12 Wireless ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Mobile phone networks ........................................................................................................................ 14 Hardware gateways/set-top boxes ........................................................................................................ 14 Bandwidth requirements for triple play.................................................................................................... 15 Best effort ............................................................................................................................................. 15 Upload speeds....................................................................................................................................... 16 MULTIPLE-PLAY SERVICE OFFERINGS.............................................................................................. 18 REGULATORY AND POLICY ISSUES................................................................................................... 25 Price regulations....................................................................................................................................... 25 Competition.............................................................................................................................................. 26 Bit caps..................................................................................................................................................... 27 Walled garden .......................................................................................................................................... 29 Access to content...................................................................................................................................... 30 Must carry ................................................................................................................................................ 31 Linear and non-linear content .................................................................................................................. 32 Franchise obligations and geographic restrictions ................................................................................... 34 Quality of service ..................................................................................................................................... 34 APPENDIX.................................................................................................................................................. 35 Australia ................................................................................................................................................... 35 Austria...................................................................................................................................................... 37 Belgium.................................................................................................................................................... 38 Canada...................................................................................................................................................... 39 Czech Republic ........................................................................................................................................ 40 Denmark................................................................................................................................................... 41 Finland...................................................................................................................................................... 42 France....................................................................................................................................................... 43 Germany................................................................................................................................................... 44 Greece ...................................................................................................................................................... 45 Hungary.................................................................................................................................................... 46 Iceland...................................................................................................................................................... 47 3 DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)12/FINAL Ireland ...................................................................................................................................................... 48 Italy .......................................................................................................................................................... 49 Japan......................................................................................................................................................... 50 Korea........................................................................................................................................................ 51 Luxembourg ............................................................................................................................................. 53 Mexico...................................................................................................................................................... 54 Netherlands .............................................................................................................................................. 55 New Zealand ............................................................................................................................................ 56 Norway..................................................................................................................................................... 57 Poland....................................................................................................................................................... 58 Portugal .................................................................................................................................................... 59 Slovak Republic ....................................................................................................................................... 60 Spain......................................................................................................................................................... 61 Sweden ..................................................................................................................................................... 62 Switzerland..............................................................................................................................................