Analysis On The Trends Of Fixed Network Carriers' Broadband Market

This thesis discussed how the fixed network carriers to develop their broadband services in the new environment. It analyzed the future broadband requirements, how to change the network infrastructure, how to look on 'triple play', how to look on IPTV, etc. The article analyzed the cause of the carriers' ARPU decrease and provided some strategies by the analysis of the future services.The thesis spread across the trend of the three networks' amalgamation. Through the analysis of the broadband service trends, it discussed the future bandwidth requirement and how to provide the required bandwidth. The article stressed on the trend of deploying fiber to take the place of twisted pairs, and, it also analyzed the characters of the future broadband services by the analysis of IPTV service and provided some ideas on the service development strategy.The author of this article compared the infrastructure base on fiber and copper. Through the analysis of ADSL, it pointed out the shortages of the current broadband access technologies. The thesis also pointed out that FTTH can reduce the operations expense of carriers, while at the same time, providing better service performance and quality. It's a certain trend that using fiber to take the place of copper. The author suggested the carriers to make long-term layout of the replacement and making wireless broadband access as complementarities, providing the customers differentiated services.On the service aspect, the article indicated that IP will dominate voice service and the revenue of voice service will reduce in the future. The carriers must convert themselves into integrated broadband service providers. The author stressed on IPTV system and pointed out that IPTV is not only just a kind of service, but also a platform. The platform consolidated the telecom and media services into one system and a lot of new services can be derived from it. It will be a long-term period of service innovation based on this platform.To adapt themselves to the new types of broadband access based on fiber and wireless and the new integrated broadband services, the carriers also need to accommodate their charging system and service management system, and, to provide some customized and bundled new services and flexible charging modes.