NGA's Economic and Social Value

On the 9th June 2008 the Panel co-hosted with the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) a conference on next generation access (NGA) entitled, 'Beyond Pipe Dreams? Prospects for Next Generation Broadband in the UK'. The conference page can be found here.

At the event the BSG published two reports:

• A Framework for Evaluating the Value of Next Generation Broadband by Plum Consulting. This report was co-funded by the Consumer Panel and looks at how to evaluate the private and social value of NGA.
• Models for efficient and effective public sector intervention in next generation broadband access networks by Analysys Mason. This report sets out a number of different and innovative fibre to the home public sector intervention models that have occurred in Europe.

We commissioned and presented a video at the event – Across the Generations: Contrasting experience of broadband. It contrasts the consumer experience of those who have a fibre connection and those without. Our press release can be found here.