Fiber To The Home & Fixed Wireless/Mobile Access

CURRENT INDUSTRY PROBLEMS

Telcos and Cable Operators are constantly investing in upgrades of their old systems, they cannot keep up with growing demand for bandwidth (the “need for speed”) and improved services. The upgrade from analogue to digital was a necessary step, and allowed the legacy systems operators to squeeze more revenues from their existing infrastructures thanks to technological advances. Competition between existing providers is (necessarily) taking place on the basis of price instead of quality of service. The lack of competition means that there is no natural incentive to consider rebuilding a legacy system, which is an inevitable requirement in order to service the growing demands of current and future markets.

The wireless and wired infrastructures that are currently used for communications services are not able to meet present demand, let alone future demand. Current system operators are confronted with two network-crippling problems:

1. The number of users of communications infrastructures is increasing rapidly.

2. The data-intensity is growing along with the number of users (more people on the same network) as well as in terms of bandwidth and capacity requirements (size of files, applications and services).

Existing Mobile and Wireless operators in the Netherlands have at least three major shortcomings:

1. Backhaul;

2. Technology; and

3. Density of high-speed/capacity stations

Mobile and wireless operators have to increase capacity on their backhaul systems if they want to provide faster and faster services. More speed to the subscribers means more capacity is needed on the backhaul in order to provide those speeds.

THE SOLUTION

The real solution for wired services is to build last-mile optical fiber-based infrastructures and connect homes and offices directly to FTTH/O systems that are built on active Ethernet and not PON technology foundations. The FTTH/O infrastructures that iUHBA builds enable the Company to deliver at symmetrical speeds of 1 Gigabit per second, per connection – upgradeable to 10 Gbps, something that is beyond the wildest dreams of businesses and consumers.

The wired and wireless infrastructures that iUHBA will build, based on the FiberBroadband Strategy, are what set both the Company and its services apart. The true convergence and integration of wireless and wired video, data, voice, and multi-media services is possible for the first time. The Fiberbroadband Strategy allows iUHBA to be a next generation Multi-System Wired and Wireless Operator in the truest sense of the word.

The most viable solution for next generation wireless and mobile connectivity is to build an entirely parallel wireless network, but that goes against the current operators’ business plans. UHBA will invest heavily in order to build ultra-high-bandwidth wireless infrastructures, based on the FiberBroadband Strategy. The wireless infrastructure allows 10-100 Mbps services, and will seamlessly connect to iUHBA’s mobile service once the user travels out of the iUHBA wireless network.

Furthermore, while at home or work, their femto device automatically synchronizes their FTTH/O connection with the wireless/mobile device (laptop/mobile/smartphone) for updates and alerts. This wired/wireless communications and lifestyle convergence of networks and services will improve the quality and productivity of life because it makes important aspects of one’s life less complicated and less time consuming.

iUHBA will install ultra-high-speed Wireless Access nodes in urban, suburban and rural regions throughout the country in order to create city-wide/regional reliable, seamless and ubiquitous broadband wireless access networks. There is no other wireless operator that a) has the business model and plan, and b) access to capital to build such a large-scale, nationwide infrastructure of ultra-high-speed broadband wireless access networks.