Friday, May 27, 2022

internet&data science towards a new era for tele-communication

DEAR FELLOW READERS CHAIRESTHAI,

YEARS ARE PASSING BY&THIS OLD CORRUPTED RUNNING SYSTEM,A MIXTURE OF CAPITALISM&COMMUNISM(aka state socialism) INSISTS ON PUTTING PEOPLE LIKE THE WRITER OF THIS TEXT IN DIFFICULT CONDITION&SITUATIONS BECAUSE SUCH PERSONS ARE RESEARCHERS OF TRUTH AND OTHER VISIONERS WHO SEEK A BETTER FUTURE FOR HUMANITY.
THE NOWADAYS SYSTEM HAS ALREADY PREPARED ITS CHANGE TO ANOTHER TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL AND THIS MEANS ALSO TO ANOTHER ENERGY RESOURCE LEVEL BY FOLLOWING THE STANDARD MECHANICS&ARCHITECTURES:

AN ETERNAL SYSTEM CHANGE ARCHITECTURE

THE QUESTION ABOUT THE DIRECTION TO BE FOLLOWED FOR SUCH A CHANGE IS SIMPLE IN DUALITY:

democ-kratoc OR oligarchies-pseudo democracies ?

CONTINUING OUR RESEARCH CONCERNING THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION FOR A FUTURE PURE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM WE TOOK PART IN 3 EVENTS DURING MAY 2022:

A)AT THE Europe’s Internet Ecosystem: Is Everybody Contributing Their Fair Share?

ORGANISED BY ETNO(Europe’s telecommunication network operators )

https://twitter.com/epaphosinfo/status/1526127449272209408

B)The Internet Value Chain: latest numbers, current dynamics, and future trends, BEING ORGANISED BY gsma (Global System for Mobile Communications)

https://twitter.com/epaphosinfo/status/1527246061424738306

C)Data Science & Law Forum 4.0: Governing AI

AT MICROSOFT BRUSSELS PREMISES

https://twitter.com/epaphosinfo/status/1528714346825654274

THE COMMUNITIES OF INTERESTS WERE THERE BY EXPRESSING THEIR CONCERNS AND IDEAS PUTTING THE DEBATES ONLY ON THE ECONOMIC VALUES. FOR THE A),B) EVENTS REPORTS WERE CONDUCTED WHEN FOR THE THIRD A GENERAL DISCUSSION OPENED THE GATE FOR DEEPER RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGINEERS&LAWYERS.

LETS EXAMINE THE CASE:

The European Commission has set fresh EU Digital Decade Targets for the period 2020-2030. Full 5G and FTTH “connectivity for everyone” is the pivot towards all the other targets: from the digital transformation of businesses to digital public services, empowering the twin green/digital transition and boosting ICT skills.

In this context, the Commission has also launched the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade, and has specifically called for “developing adequate frameworks so that all market actors benefiting from the digital transformation assume their social responsibilities and make a fair and proportionate contribution to the costs of public goods, services and infrastructures, for the benefit of all Europeans”.

SOURCE https://www.internetforum.eu/

Today, tech giants do not contribute a fair share to the deployment of telecom networks, while generating network-related costs of tens of billion euros. This weakens Europe’s capacity to swiftly achieve connectivity targets. Addressing this through policy action could unlock socio-economic benefits for Europe, including €72bn GDP growth, an additional 840k jobs in 2025 and cuts to CO₂ emissions.

The findings have been published today in the report “Europe’s internet ecosystem: socio-economic benefits of a fairer balance between tech giants and telecom operators”, prepared by international consulting firm Axon Partners Group Consulting for leading telecom association ETNO.

The problem: is everybody contributing their fair share?

Europe has the objective to achieve gigabit connectivity and 5G for all by 2030. The report shows that European telcos have invested over €500bn in fixed and mobile networks in the past 10 years. On the contrary, the top 6 tech giants have generated over 55% of all telecom networks’ traffic, but they have made “little or no financial contribution to the development of national networks”.

The report finds that European telcos are currently unable to recover these costs due to asymmetric bargaining power favouring big tech as well as the lack of a level regulatory playing field: essentially, Internet traffic markets are unbalanced. The report also refers to newly unveiled data by consulting firm Frontier Economics, which estimates that traffic driven by tech giants alone could generate network costs of at least €15bn, if considering incremental costs, or of at least €36bn, if considering total costs.

The consequences: slower 5G/FTTH roll-out, suboptimal QoS, more CO₂

The report shows that this unbalance has consequences. First, this contributes to making European telcos financially weaker, which impairs their ability to speed up gigabit roll-out: for example, the total market capitalization of Europe’s top 8 telcos is €0,24tn, as opposed to €7.11tn for the top 6 tech giants. Second, Quality of Service and innovation could be improved with more investment. Last, in absence of meaningful contributions by tech giants, the shift to greener networks is slower, with impacts on CO₂ emissions.

A fairer ecosystem: a €72bn GDP growth with positive social and environmental impacts

Axon estimates that, taking as a reference an illustrative annual contribution of €20bn to network costs by tech giants, the European Internet ecosystem could unlock significant opportunities. Up to €72bn could be added to GDP and 840k jobs created in 2025. Similarly, energy consumption for the sector could be reduced by 28% and the carbon footprint would shrink by as much as 94%.

Possible solutions: regulatory action to address unbalanced IP markets

Urgent and targeted regulatory action is required to address serious imbalances in Internet traffic markets and unlock socio-economic opportunities for citizens and businesses. This should be done within the framework of Europe’s Open Internet principles, while ensuring that all consumers continue to benefit from the full extent of ever-evolving network access and quality.

According to the Report, solutions could build on introducing a clear obligation to negotiate with Internet Service Providers. This would help ensure the fairness of commercial negotiations with big tech companies, who currently enjoy disproportionate bargaining power. The measures would be in the spirit of the newly established Digital Markets Act, while potentially building on principles in existing EU frameworks such as: the Electronic Communications Code, the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive and dispute resolution mechanisms (e.g. the ADR in the Copyright Directive or in the EU approach to Essential Patents).

Comments by ETNO and Axon

Lise Fuhr, Director General of ETNO, said: “The EU has been determined in tackling power imbalances in the online and tech space. With today’s report, we want to launch an open dialogue with policymakers, consumers and tech companies on how to address the specific imbalances in internet traffic markets. This is not a technical issue: it is about our ability to put Europe at the forefront of the global 5G and FTTH race”.

Alfons Oliver, Partner of Axon, said: “The European Commission has recently acknowledged the need to develop adequate frameworks for tech firms to contribute their fair share to the development of telecoms infrastructure. Time has now come for EU legislators to make it happen, unlocking the important benefits this will bring to European society”.

SOURCE https://www.telecomtv.com/

ON THE OTHER HAND THE COMMISSION HAS PUT Key actions:

• White Paper on Artificial Intelligence setting out options for a legislative framework for trustworthy AI (adopted together with this Communication), with a follow-up on safety, liability, fundamental rights and data (Q4 2020).

• Building and deploying cutting-edge joint digital capacities in the areas of AI, cyber, superand quantum computing, quantum communication and blockchain. European Strategies on Quantum and blockchain (Q2 2020) as well as a revised EuroHPC Regulation11 on supercomputing.

• Accelerating investments in Europe’s Gigabit connectivity, through a revision of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive12, an updated Action Plan on 5G and 6G, a new Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (2021). 5G corridors for connected and automated mobility, including railway corridors, will be rolled out (2021-2030) (2021-2023).

• A European cybersecurity strategy, including the establishment of a joint Cybersecurity Unit, a Review of the Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive13 and giving a push to the single market for cybersecurity.

• A Digital Education Action Plan to boost digital literacy and competences at all levels of education (Q2 2020).

• A reinforced Skills Agenda to strengthen digital skills throughout society and a reinforced Youth Guarantee to put a strong focus on digital skills in early career transitions (Q2 2020).

• Initiative to improve labour conditions of platform workers (2021).

• A reinforced EU governments interoperability strategy to ensure coordination and common standards for secure and borderless public sector data flows and services. (2021)

SOURCE communication-shaping-europes-digital-future-feb2020_en_4.pdf (europa.eu)

ABOUT THE INTERNET VALUE CHAIN

The new version of the Internet Value Chain Report has been published - it is very interesting how dynamically the Internet Value Chain and the different value chain elements have evolved over the last years- expansion of value chain coverage by the tech players, fast growing online service segments, dominance of video in traffic volumes and the concentration on a few big players, and a two sided squeeze of the Internet Access Providers.

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT
GSMA | The Internet Value Chain 2022 | Public Policy

IMT Spectrum Demand: Estimating the mid-bands spectrum needs in the 2025-2030 timeframe

A report by Coleago Consulting Ltd.

The GSMA endorses the findings and conclusions of this report.

5G will bring major benefits to end users over the coming years. Starting with the existing trends and anticipating further evolution in the longer term, this report elaborates on the importance of making more mid-bands spectrum available for IMT as an essential means to achieve the 5G vision.

The report provides an analysis of the future spectrum needs based on area traffic density demand for the 2025-2030 timeframe, accounting for the 5G target minimum performance requirements. This report considers the spectrum needed to fulfil the user experienced data rates of 100 Mbit/s on the downlink, and 50 Mbit/s on the uplink, defined by the ITU-R for IMT-2020.

Additional mid-bands spectrum for 5G would enable mobile operators to deliver the ITU-R IMT-2020 specifications, notably the user experienced data rates of 100 and 50 Mbit/s on the downlink and uplink in cities, in an economically feasible manner. This report provides an analysis for eleven cities with a population density of 9,000 people per km2 or more, namely Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Milan, and the Amsterdam – The Hague region. Our analysis concludes that in addition to building many more small cells, 1000 to 2000 MHz of additional mid-bands spectrum is required to deliver the 5G vision of downlink user experienced data rate of 100 Mbit/s across the city, i.e. citywide “speed coverage”, and also to satisfy the 50 Mbit/s uplink target. The selected cities have characteristics that also apply to a broad number of other larger cities.

In urban areas with a population density below 9,000 people per km2, mobile operators will also have to densify the network with small cells to deliver the 5G downlink and uplink user experienced data rates, but additional upper mid-band spectrum would reduce the need for cell site densification, thus delivering an environmental benefit.

Making available 1000 to 2000 MHz additional mid-bands spectrum for 5G-NR can also make a major contribution to achieving the European Union’s 2025 connectivity goal. The cost of reaching the European target of making 100 Mbit/s broadband available to 100% of households with FTTH amounts to €123 billion, with an estimated €53 billion of this in rural areas. If FWA using this additional 1000 to 2000 MHz of midbands spectrum is used in rural Europe instead of FTTH, this would result in a saving of €42 billion. Importantly, this additional spectrum would provide sufficient bandwidth to ensure that fibre-like speed FWA will also be able to address the needs for fixed connectivity as a long-term solution for rural areas.

The development of automated driving systems and connected vehicles is still in its infancy. The safety and environmental benefits that automated driving and connected vehicles will bring to society are significant but, to realise this vision, reliable high speed connectivity and capacity are required. Additional mid-band spectrum would materially reduce the cost of providing the required area traffic capacity along

SOURCE GSMA | IMT Spectrum Demand: Estimating the mid-bands spectrum needs in the 2025-2030 timeframe - GSMA Europe

motorways.

THE CONCLUSION ABOUT THESE MEETINGS FROM OUR SIDE IS THAT THE BIG TECH WANT THE CITIZENS TO PAY FOR THESE INVESTMENTS WHEN THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION OPOSES SUCH SOLUTION BY FOLLOWING THE SOCIAL POLICIES AND HOPING TO THE CONTRIBUTION OF THESE COMPANIES.MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSIONS APART FROM OUR PROPOSAL FOR THE EUROPEAN INTERNET THE SYNNET AND BETTER RESEARCH ON A TECHNICAL LEVEL FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF 5G SO THAT HARMFULL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS TO BE ELIMINATED ,CAN BE EXPRESSED BY THE WORDS SPOKEN TO THE TECHNICAL GIANTS:

how can a simple man who has in his pocket 0,24 cents (trillion) negotiate properly with another one who has 7,11 dollars (trillion) ? (the capitalization )

MERCI FOR SUPPORTING OUR POLICIES

HYGEIAINETE