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Opening the International Broadband Bottleneck
8th Arab Telecom & Internet Forum
Maan Al Sabi
Director, Business Development, MEA
FLAG Telecom
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Internet Growth Fuelling Broadband Demand
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A Shift in User Behavioural Patterns
Average monthly usage per user is significantly higher for broadband users
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Hours online per month for broadband users is 27% higher than narrowband users1
Sessions per month for broadband users is 37% higher than narrowband users1
Page Views per month for broadband users is 17% higher than narrowband users1
Broadband users use the Internet more frequently than narrowband users
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69% of broadband users go online every day, as opposed to 51% for narrowband users2
Broadband users use bandwidth-intensive applications more frequently than
narrowband users
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38% of broadband users stream audio, as opposed to 15% of dialup users2
32% of broadband users watch videos online compared to only 9% of dialup users2
Average amount of data each subscriber is downloading is growing, more so
for broadband users
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Jupiter Media Metrix; McKinsey Analysis
Pew Internet and American Life Project 2004
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IP Traffic Mix is Changing
IP Traffic by Application Type, 1993-2004
P2P Traffic by File Type, 2004
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Opportunities in the Middle East
Internet penetration levels in the region remain considerably below penetration levels in
more mature markets
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Many countries in the region have yet to cross the 10% penetration mark
Ongoing liberalisation of telecommunications and the emergence of competition in key
markets of the region is helping to overcome key inhibitors to growth for the region
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Affordability – total cost of ownership to end user as share of wallet remains high
Availability – infrastructure and access network pervasiveness is weak in many countries
Quality – available international bandwidth per 100 inhabitants is on average generally lower than 2% of the
world’s highest
Thriving economies are attracting international investments
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MNC community is strongly growing
Aggressive changes in policy environments aim to establish the region as a viable
option for off-shore BPO
International Broadband systems such as FALCON will unlock direct international
access for the first time
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New opportunities will be created by new geographies
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FALCON
Advanced network engineering
design provides a very resilient
system that is doubly armoured and
plough burried in vulnerable areas
The only loop system in the
gulf, FALCON spans
12,000Km of fibre and
provides 2.5-Tbps of capacity
Seamlessly integrates with a
global network that touches
four continents, reaching 75%
of the world’s population
First segments already live
(India : Oman : UAE : Qatar)
with final RFS expected in Q3 ‘06
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Broadband Access to Global Markets
FLAG’s Partner Programme
Partnership model provides a transparent extension of enterpriseclass services into key international locations in Europe, US and
Asia Pacific over each other’s networks, enabling us both to better
respond to the global connectivity requirements of our customers.
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Traffic delivery is both way – we both benefit.
End-to-end (PoP to customer premise) connectivity is delivered via a
straightforward network-to-network interconnect (NNI). This model
applies to key, in-demand services (e.g. IPLC, VPN and Ethernet)
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FLAG’s Partner Programme
Middle East Focus
FLAG seeks to develop as many partnerships as possible with telecom operators and
service providers in the Middle East with the aim of enhancing:
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Accessibility of key regional business centres to the world
Availability of advanced international connectivity services to regional enterprises
FLAG’s proposition to Partners is a simple, non-threatening, and low-risk arrangement
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Immediate access to distant geographies via each other’s network with little capital outlay
Transparent service delivery – Partner retain full ownership of, and contact with their own end-customers. The
other partner provides ‘invisible’ traffic delivery.
The partnership is mutually non-exclusive
Partners will be able to grow their revenues in the international data services market, by
winning enterprise customer bids with off-net international components
Partners will be able to extend their product offering beyond their home market across the
FLAG global footprint
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Simple mechanism to bundle and sell each other’s national / international services
Includes access to key business centres across four continents
Partners will be able to build up their inbound revenue streams when FLAG uses their
domestic / regional network as a termination point for traffic sourced in other continents
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Telecom Egypt – FLAG Partnership
A Success Story
One of our first partners and most successful to date – our FEA landing party
Operate VPOP with FLAG on a revenue share basis
Established in 2000 with agreed success criteria for TE
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Direct connectivity to Egypt from any global destination
Reduced capital exposure (don’t pay for international capacity until customer pays)
Local demand increased to over 5-Gbps
Contributed to value of TE ahead of privatisation and liberalisation
Win – Win for FLAG and Telecom Egypt
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Direct connectivity to Egypt from any global destination
One stop shop for ISPs and MNCs – provisioning, customer care, management, billing
Quality of transport improved dramatically – generated >80% of the internet traffic out of Egypt
Created high degree of TRUST between the 2 companies – led to advanced service rollout
FLAG assists TE with in-region staff – fully staffed office to assist local customers
Extremely successful and has been replicated in other countries
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Summary
Middle East region is set for explosive traffic growth driven by demand for
international business solutions and new IP applications
Increased competition in supply will facilitate huge growth
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Local – Rollout of broadband networks and improved local infrastructure
International – Local access to cost-effective high capacity global transport systems e.g.
Falcon
Partnership approach is the way forward
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It is essential that domestic carriers and international service providers work hand in hand to
meet more demanding customer requirements for global solutions
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