ASIA-PACIFIC INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY (AP-IS) AND …...Russian Federation New Caledonia* China...

IMPROVING REGIONAL BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY THROUGH THE

ASIA-PACIFIC INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY


(AP-IS) AND ASIAN HIGHWAY NETWORK

ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division

ESCAP

13 December 2017



MESSAGE 1: DIGITAL DIVIDE IS

WIDENING



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Africa ESCAP

Europe North America

Latin America & Caribbean

Source: Produced by ESCAP, based on data sourced from ITU World

Telecommunications/ICT Indicators Database (accessed July 2017).

Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100

inhabitants (average) by region, 2000–2016

Widening gap between developing and developed countries



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Widening gap within Asia-Pacific as well

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Fixed Broadband Sub. per 100 Inhabitants

AfghanistanMyanmarTajikistan

TurkmenistanKiribati

Timor-LesteSolomon Islands

Papua New GuineaLao P.D.R.Cambodia

NepalPakistanSamoa

FijiIndia

VanuatuGuam*

Marshall IslandsIndonesia

TongaMicronesiaBangladesh

BhutanKyrgyzstanSri Lanka

PhilippinesPalau*

MaldivesMongolia

Brunei DarussalamMalaysia

UzbekistanNauru*

Viet NamTuvalu

ArmeniaThailand

Iran (I.R.)Cook Islands*

TurkeyKazakhstan

GeorgiaAzerbaijan

French PolynesiaRussian Federation

New Caledonia*China

SingaporeMacao, China

AustraliaJapan

New ZealandHong Kong, China

Korea (Rep.)

Note: * - Countries with latest data available.



Note: *excluding Guam

2016

Turkmenistan

Afghanistan

Timor-Leste

Myanmar

Bangladesh

Papua New Guinea

Nepal

Lao P.D.R.

Tajikistan

Samoa

Vanuatu

Pakistan

Cambodia

Uzbekistan

Bhutan

Solomon Islands

Kyrgyzstan

Iran (I.R.)

Indonesia

India

Armenia

Sri Lanka

Palau

Azerbaijan

Tonga

Kiribati

Philippines

Mongolia

Fiji

Guam

Kazakhstan

Viet Nam

Georgia

Tuvalu

Thailand

Brunei Darussalam

Malaysia

Maldives

Cook Islands

China

Russian Federation

Turkey

French Polynesia

New Caledonia

New Zealand

Singapore

Japan

Macao, China

Australia

Hong Kong, China

Korea (Rep.)

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40Fixed-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants

2008



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Least affordable when least connected

Afghanistan

ArmeniaAzerbaijan

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Cambodia

China

GeorgiaIndia

Indonesia

Iran (I.R.)

JapanKazakhstanKorea (Rep.)

Kyrgyzstan

Lao P.D.R.

Malaysia

Mongolia

Myanmar

Nepal

Pakistan

Philippines

Russian FederationSingaporeSri Lanka

Tajikistan

Thailand

TurkeyTurkmenistan

UzbekistanViet Nam

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Fixed-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants

Fitted trend (logarithmic)





MESSAGE 2: DEPLOYMENT OF

INFRASTRUCTURE AND AP-IS



Good competition

•Terrestrial & submarine TX

Poor competition All submarine TX

Why bandwidth is expensive in Asia?

Fierce competition

•Coast-coast terrestrial TX

Broadband’s

biggest barrier



The Asia-Pacific Information

Superhighway initiative aims to increase

the availability and affordability of

broadband Internet across Asia and the

Pacific, by strengthening the underlying

Internet infrastructure in the region.

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• Promote terrestrial and submarine fibre-optic connectivity

• Provide a regional intergovernmental platform focusing on the missing fibre-optic links between ESCAP countries



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• Bridging digital divides

• Promoting affordability to

underserved areas

• Efficient Internet traffic

management

• Resilient ICT networks

• Ensuring last-mile disaster

communication

• Can withstand disasters

Four Pillars of AP-IS

• Physical network design

• Intergovernmental negotiation

• Asian Highway amendment to

include co-deployment CONNECTIVITY

E-RESILIENCE

TRAFFIC /

NETWORK

MANAGEMENT

BROADBAND

FOR ALL



MESSAGE 3: STRONG

INTERGOVERNMENTAL

SUPPORT



ESCAP resolutions

• AP-IS is supported by three ESCAP Resolutions:

69/10, 71/10 and 73/6

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• Specifically in ESCAP Resolution 71/10,

Secretariat is requested to:

• explore further ways to harness cross-sectoral

synergies, including through the review of best

practices

• recommend solutions to leverage synergies

among ICT, energy and transport

infrastructures



AP-IS and Co-deployment

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• The AP-IS Master Plan and Regional

Cooperation Framework Document, as

endorsed by ESCAP Resolution 73/6,

identifies the co-deployment of fiber optic

cables along highways and railways as a cost-

effective means of increasing the availability of

broadband infrastructure, especially in

unconnected or underserved rural areas



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Decisions by ICT, and Transport,

Committees in 2014

• In 2014, Committees on ICT and Transport

recommended that consideration should be

given to amending the Intergovernmental

Agreement on the Asian Highway Network to

encourage signatories to consider co-

deployment



MESSAGE 1:CO-DEPLOYMENT

BRINGS NET BENEFITS



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Message 4: Benefits of co-deployment

Seamlessregional

connectivity

Bridging the digital divide

Revenue generation

• Asian Highway offers seamless regional

connectivity

• Leverage on this passive infrastructure to augment

infrastructure seamlessly

• Road Transport Authorities earn additional

revenue

• Cost of deployment reduced for the civil

engineering work

• More ICT networks and services to

under-serviced areas

Cost saving



AP-IS and SDGs

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Inclusive Broadband

•Availability: Co-deployment will increase coverage of broadband networks

•Affordability: Co-deployment will reduce costs

•E-resilience: building redundancies contribute toimproving resilience of these networks to disaster

• Intelligent transport systems

• Smart cities

• State-of-the art dry port hubs

• Paperless trade • E-commerce etc.

Inclusive

SDGs



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The Energy-, information- and transportation- network

Source:Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO)


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Energy&

Information

• The energy network

leverages on the

information network

• The energy network

supports the expansion of

the information network

EV+ charging station

Sustainable Energy&

Transportation

• Sustainable energy

network as a provider of

power for vehicles

• Vehicles are both energy

consumers and means of

energy transport

Transportation&

Information

• ICT improves the

information exchange of

transport network

• As a passive infrastructure, transport network and related facilities expand coverage and functioning of information network

Energy&Information & Transportation

The three major

networks have

displayed a gradual

integrating trend with

electricity as the

driving force and

data as the link

Smart energy Automatic drive Smart city

The Present Integrating Trend of the Three Networks

Source:GEIDCO



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Challenges

•Cooperation across sectors -Structure/mechanism/regulatory

•Right-of-way/open access

•Sharing of revenues/fee structures

•Ownership of infrastructure

Address through technical studies, good practices and

amendment to the Agreement

Synergies between ICT and Transport



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Amend the Asian Highway Agreement to capture

the benefits of co-deployment• The Government of Bangladesh, following the endorsement of its Prime

Minister, submitted to the secretariat a proposed amendment to Annex II

of the Asian Highway Network Agreement

“There is an opportunity to leverage synergies between the

concomitant deployment of optical fibre cables during the

construction or maintenance of the Asian Highway Network. Such

co-deployment would create additional cross-country internet

transmission routes which would contribute to the reduction of the

digital divide in the ESCAP region. In this regard, parties shall

endeavor to utilize the right-of-way of the Asian Highway Network

for the co-deployment of optical fibre cables across and within

countries”.

• The amendment is now up for consideration and adoption at this 7th

Session of the Working Group on the Asian Highway network



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