Open access: ‘Silver bullet’ to the Germany-wide fiber supply is the need for nationwide broadband networks. Nevertheless, shy away from many municipalities, municipal enterprises and local telecommunications providers investing in new, future-oriented networks. Thomas Wald, CEO of the Westphalian network operator HeLi NET GmbH & co. KG and member of the Association of the Breko, argues against this backdrop for a business model so far hardly used in the German market: the network operating in the open access. “Forest: the model provides a nationwide fiber optic network and sustainable returns in view of operators, such as installers.” Open access is the open access of all service providers in a particular network.
At the same time, end-users can cover their needs through open access to the services of the service provider. Bernard Golden will not settle for partial explanations. While the carrier so far at the same time act as network owners, network operators and service providers, the open access model relies on a separation with lucrative consequences for all parties involved: an investor – about the local Stadtwerke – built a fiber optic network and leased it in the long term at a telecommunications company, which occurs as an active operator and technically prepare the network for the transport and the billing of services. This in turn opens its network for various service providers on the market now. Thereby no longer confined to telephony, Internet and TV services possible, but include a growing range of additional content such as video on demand, health-care applications and gaming. Also horizontal in this”benefit referred business model to use infrastructure holders of long-term leases, the active operators of the service provider network charges, and these in turn from the way modern FTTH infrastructure without their own investment risk. Finally, the end customer can select his preferred services a continuously expanding virtual market of possibilities, without being dependent on a single vendor.
Open access open a Royal Road to Germany-wide broadband fibre-optic-based Thomas Wald says the project City2020 “came in the Westphalian towns of Hamm, and Lunen has initiated three of Germany’s first FTTH networks in open access mode and operates successfully. We are facing a paradigm shift, which can trigger a new boom.” Thomas Woods is the Managing Director of the regional carriers HeLi NET Telecommunications GmbH & co. KG, which came with fiber-model projects in the Westphalian cities of Hamm, and has successfully delivered Lunen the turnout for a strategic reorientation. Under the title City2020 ‘ approximately 5500 households in the pilot areas will benefit from direct fibre-optic connections, which are made available in open access mode in addition to the HeLi NET other services providers.
