Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications Fixed and wireless broadband mapping in Belgium Broadband mapping Conference in Warsaw, Poland, 11-12 April, 2016 BIPT
Agenda Objectives Roadmap Mobile coverage Fixed coverage Pageviews Conclusion 2
Objectives Innovation Competition & investment Reliability Information Participation Dialogue Performance BIPT s strategic plan 2014-2016 To increase transparency on networks quality BIPT Consumers will build should an atlas be able of the to networks compare the To coverages increase which of transparency the will different include on operators data networks on the on quality the quality BIPT s website. of services (speed, installation and repair BIPT should times, be etc.) able to give support to the Consumers Ministry of Economy should be and able to to the compare European the coverages Commission of in the order different to identify operators white on areas. the BIPT s To provide website. objective information to reply to BIPT questions should or be complaints able to give from support the citizens, to the Ministry mayors and of Economy the Minister and (Parliement). to the European Commission To raise awareness in order and to stimulate identify white deployment. areas. http://www.bipt.be/public/files/fr/21257/strategisch-plan-2014_2016_fr.pdf 3
Roadmap Availability (Coverage) Quality of Service Quality of Experience Transparency on speed Mobile «Atlas» Fixed http://www.ibpt.be/en/consumers/internet -tv/quality-of-service/coverage-maps 4
Mobile coverage (1/6) In cooperaton with the 3 Mobile Network Operators MNOs provide binary data per pixel of 200 m x 200m (2,187,500): -105 dbm in 3G et -115 dbm in 4G outdoor Controled by the BIPT BIPT controls on the ground: drive-tests, scanner ( 250 K scans per technology & MNO) BIPT validates the maps: minimum reliability of 97% of pixels Publication on the website Maps Method + control report 5
Mobile coverage (2/6) 6
Mobile coverage (3/6) 7
Mobile coverage (4/6) 8
Mobile coverage (5/6) 9
Mobile coverage (6/6) 10
Fixed coverage (1/3) In cooperaton with the 5 Fixed Network Operators Granularity Pixels: no GIS for some operators Municipality: too high Sections of municipality (2.264) By download speed (1, 30, 60 and 100 Mbps): Number of housings Number of connectable housings % of connectable housings Publication on the website Map (published soon) 11
Fixed coverage (2/3) - draft 12
Fixed coverage (3/3) - draft 13
Visitors and pageviews (1/2) 85 K unique pageviews since 15/07/2015 320 unique pageviews on average per day 28 K unique visitors, 107 visitors per day (0,2% of Internet users in BE) 15% of total unique pageviews on BIPT s website 14
Total Cumulated Visitors and pageviews (2/2) 80,000 10,000 Launch Monthly pageviews Monthly pageviews of the mobile maps 120,000 9,000 70,000 8,000 60,000 7,000 50,000 6,000 Update 1 Update 2 100,000 80,000 40,000 5,000 60,000 4,000 30,000 3,000 20,000 2,000 10,000 1,000 Update 1 Update 2 40,000 20,000 0 Jun-15 Aug-15 Jul-15 Sep-15Aug-15Oct-15 Sep-15 Nov-15 Oct-15 Nov-15 Dec-15 Dec-15 Jan-16 Jan-16Feb-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Total TotalAverageCumulated Cumulated 0 15
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Conclusion Innovation Competition & investment Reliability Information Participation Dialogue Performance BIPT s strategic plan 2014-2016 To increase transparency on networks quality Consumers should be able to compare the coverages of the different operators on the BIPT s website. BIPT should be able to give support to the Ministry of Economy and to the European Commission in order to identify white areas. To provide objective information to reply to questions or complaints from the citizens, mayors and the Minister (Parliement). To raise awareness and stimulate deployment. http://www.bipt.be/public/files/fr/21257/strategisch-plan-2014_2016_fr.pdf 17
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