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Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
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Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
To what extent can existing rail and roadside infrastructure be used to support or deliver expanded mobile coverage across the UK? What innovative business models might promote improved coverage in road and rail corridors?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
What changes should we expect to see in the next decade both domestically and internationally in regard to the technological, commercial, and regulatory landscapes of the mobile market?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
What will be the role of terrestrial and non-terrestrial (satellite and intermediate platforms) in delivering high quality mobile coverage and capacity across different regions of the UK? What regulatory changes will be needed, including on spectrum management?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
How can small cell technology support the delivery of mobile coverage and capacity across the UK? What are the advantages and limitations of incorporating this technology into delivery strategies?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
Estimating the willingness to pay for access to high-capacity telecoms networks: (i) what behavioural factors may hinder business and residential consumers from taking up new services and what factors drive them? (ii) what policy interventions might address these?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
What are the potential opportunities and issues associated with the development and deployment of open telecoms solutions such as Open RAN, and how should government intervention be targeted to utilise or mitigate these? How is Open RAN adoption progressing and what is the likely trajectory? What are the barriers to adoption and acceptance of open architectures for 5G deployment and how are they changing? What are the economic benefits associated with this?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
What are the current telecoms supply chain/RAN market concentration risks and how are they evolving? What has been/will be the impact of the economic and geopolitical risks on achieving greater market diversity. How could future technological trends affect market concentration risks in telecoms supply chains?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
Identifying the distribution of productivity benefits from telecoms infrastructure investment (fixed and wireless): (i) to what extent can, or has, telecoms investment reduce(d) the difference in productivity between areas of the UK? (ii) what is the impact of telecoms infrastructure on the differences in productivity between firms within sectors (e.g. can it help address the issue of ‘long-tail’ of low productivity firms)? And how do the productivity impacts differ between different industries? (iii) what are the barriers to scaling up wireless enterprise applications for growth and how are they changing? (iv) How do productivity impacts vary across public mobile networks, private mobile networks (e.g. private 5G) and fixed networks including the role of Wi-Fi? For further relevant questions on productivity see BDUK section 9.
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
To what extent are market sectors or verticals, such as transport, logistics, utilities, health and social care (including critical national infrastructure) likely to require access to high specification connectivity (e.g. high capacity, high reliability, low latency)? What are the commercial models for any required new investment likely to be and are there likely to be areas of market failure?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
What international evidence is there of the productivity benefits from high capacity fixed and wireless networks? At what point are these changes noticeable to consumers and businesses?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - High capacity fixed and wireless networks adoption
To what extent will mobile market consolidation impact: (i) mobile coverage, (ii) consumer choice, (iii) consumer behaviour? How might the government or regulatory body need to prepare or intervene?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
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