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Infrastructure List Gets Mapping Capability |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
Telco Industry researcher, Market Clarity has released a new
edition of its Australian Telecommunications infrastructure catalogue.
The business intelligence service
is a unique resource first launched in October last year. It identifies
the location of Australia's current telecommunications infrastructure
in a database that tracks information on the infrastructure holdings
deployed and in service from 118 different infrastructure owners.
Market
Clarity has
added Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping to the expanded
database enabling the production of detailed telecoms
infrastructure maps so that carriers, service providers and government
agencies can identify the location, ownership and components of
Australia's telecoms infrastructure.
For
example, the database features key details on 4,500 DSLAM locations, up
from 4,000 when the service was launched last year. It also includes
700 access fibre service areas covering 1,480 POPs held by 23 owners,
HFC network coverage from 5 owners, and 1,770 fixed wireless broadband
base stations owned by 66 organisations.
Also included are location details of 2G and 3G mobile network base stations held by four owners,
as well as long-haul fibre networks from 11 providers covering 200+
towns served by 500 POPs, and long-haul microwave networks held by 28
owners.
"The
SQL-based telecom infrastructure database can quickly resolve complex
queries, correlating telecoms infrastructure against ABS population,
household and business demographics, as well as service take-up data."
Using
the new GIS capabilities, Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity, will be
presenting for the first time a composite picture of Australia's
telecoms infrastructure at the CommsDay Summit 2007 held in Sydney
today. It will cover Telstra and non-Telstra infrastructure.
Evans
said the composite picture of Australia's telecommunications
infrastructure investment had taken two consultant years to develop.
"It
is a unique vehicle that allows you to see first hand where telecoms
infrastructure is located," she said. "There is no other resource like
it available to government, developers, and lenders seeking to invest
in Australia's telecommunications infrastructure."
Market
Clarity's telecoms business intelligence service provides organisations
and government with highly robust information on Australia's telecoms
infrastructure.
"The
information requirement may be small or large. It may be related to
specific infrastructure types or owners, as well as corresponding
demographic information at a regional, suburb or postcode level. The
business intelligence service outputs can then be used to identify the
most likely candidates for investment."
"It
can also be used to refine a business case or a proposal to include
tangible information about the market, or used in a third party review
of a business case to verify facts, fine tune proposals or identify
areas that may have been missed," she said.
"Enterprise customers can also benefit from Market Clarity's telecoms
business intelligence service. For instance, an enterprise customer may
want to know the available infrastructure-based options to connect one
or more sites. The telecoms business intelligence service
can identify the providers that have broadband access infrastructure in
every postcode, along with the contact details for each infrastructure
owner - providing an infrastructure locater service," she said.
Evans
said the information drawn from the Market Clarity telecommunications
infrastructure database could be cross correlated with the firm's Market Tracker forecast databases to more accurately assess likely take up rates of a service or a technology.
"The
business intelligence service provides organisations looking to
participate in telecom infrastructure investments with a third party
independent resource that can assist them in identifying specific areas
they should target in their proposals or provide an independent
business case verification check. This can be a very affordable way to
check assumptions behind their business case."
She
said the Market Clarity Telecoms Business Intelligence Service also
provided a resource for SMEs, enterprises and government agencies
seeking cost effective ways to connect a given site to a customer's
network in a remote area.
Evans said the telecoms infrastructure database has
been updated over the past 6 months via primary research, carrier and
service provider resources and ACMA radiocomm license applications.
Also used were diverse secondary research sources such as news
articles, press releases, service maps and published industry studies
by the federal government, industry groups, as well as state and local
governments.
"The
Telecoms Business Intelligence Service allows you to identify telecoms
infrastructure by ownership and location captured to State, Statistical Division,
Statistical-Sub Division and postcode levels. Infrastructure
identification can also be correlated to the presence of competing
infrastructure. The telecoms infrastructure database also includes the
technology and location of backhaul services, access services, and
information about residential, business and population demographics."
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