Matching FTTP infrastructure to service providers: common wholesale platforms and related approaches

FTTP infrastructure provision is too fragmented to be attractive to buyers of wholesale services (wholebuyers), even though many fibrecos will often need non-retail channels to meet their conversion targets. This report gives an overview of the various nascent approaches to solving this problem, from the collaborative wholesale platform to more transactional approaches to matching supply and demand. All involve matching multiple infrastructure inputs with multiple retail service providers. The report indicates ways in which these approaches might evolve and shape the broadband market in the future. 

Topics covered in this report

• FTTP infrastructure fragmentation and the difficulties that this causes for wholebuyers
•  Common wholesale platforms (CWPs)
  • a comparison with other aggregated approaches
  • who is doing what
  • how CWPs and their alternatives might develop