1) The document discusses New Caledonia's digital strategy and fiber rollout plans. New Caledonia has specific characteristics as a French territory located in the Pacific with a small and dispersed population. 2) The goals of New Caledonia's digital strategy are to provide digital access and services to everybody everywhere in the territory to improve living and working conditions and support economic development. 3) A key part of the strategy is deploying fiber optic cables to provide very high speed internet access, replacing the existing copper network, with a target of connecting 80,000 households over the next 8 years. This will enable new services like high definition TV and support continued growth in internet usage.

1. APNIC 46
OPT NEW CALEDONIA DIGITAL STRATEGY
FIBER ROLL OUT
September 2018
N. DURAND

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NEW CALEDONIA AND ITS SPECIFICITIES
OFFICE DES POSTES ET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DE NOUVELLE–CALEDONIE – APNIC 46
French Territory, but own Gvt
and Parliament
20,000 km of France
2,000 km of Australia and NZ
1,400 km of Fiji and 4,600 km of
Tahiti
260,000 inhabitants
75,000 households
2/3 total pop in Nouméa &
suburbs
18,575 km2 ; 14 inhab/km2
but 2,200 inhab/km2 Nouméa
Fiji 18,300 km2 – 46 inhab/km2
Own telecom regulation, but no regulator and
some digital French laws applicable in NC (CNIL-
personal data, digital republic-public data, …)
OPT-NC monopoly (public company) on fixed lines,
mobile, leased lines, international connectivity,
and 5 ISP’s
54% households connected to Internet, but still a
lot to do (63% southern prov, 25% north, 11% Loyalties)
Country
Digital

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OUR GOALS
Digital for everybody, everywhere
Upgrading living, working and economic conditions, anywhere in New Caledonia.
Projects scaled to the whole Territory
A country oriented approach to serve
economic development and territories/populations equality
Build a “Caledonian” model
OFFICE DES POSTES ET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DE NOUVELLE–CALEDONIE – APNIC 46

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§ Towards very high speed internet and a digital customer
Coverage extension : 2018 370 full 3G sites ~95% pop
Develop 4G : 2015-2018 ~270 4G BS 70% network
Customers : 280,000 SIM cards - 85,000 mobile internet users
Convergence (new BSS and OSS Telco IT)
Development ongoing, done Fiber/FTTH, Mobile on 2Q2019, Fixed/LL on
4Q2019
OPT-NC DIGITAL STRATEGY FROM 2013 TO 2018
Billing and
Technical System
renewal
Switch from copper to fiber (existing 65,000 fixed lines - 55,000
ADSL - forecast 85,000 FTTH fiber access VoIP HSI TV)
5 years to deploy, 8-10 years to connect each customer
Nov 2015/Sept. 2018 : 30,000+ access dep. – 8,000+ cust.
Networks
Secure and
upgrade
Domestic transmission loops (terrestrial : fiber 200km /700km
and WDM deployment ongoing ; submarine extension Lifou to Néa)
Second international submarine cable (GONDWANA 2008)
Sept 2018 : call for tenders to be finished for 2nd internat. cable

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… and prepare for what’s next
24/04/15
A quick look few years back…
Use is skyrocketing !
Before 2008
LOW SPEED
Satellite, ADSL
256kbps, GPRS, …
2008/2014
HIGH SPEED
Gondwana, ADSL 16 Mbps,
3G, mobility, …
SINCE 2015
THD FIXE ET
MOBILE
Multidevice, 4K
content, Cloud

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WHY DEPLOY FIBER TO THE HOME ?
STRATEGIE D’AMENAGEMENT
Higher bitrates
Avoid eligibility constraints
More resilient
Split ratio far more advantageous
+Prosfromtechnology
Very High Speed access
TV in HD, 3D et en 4K/8K
Allow new services
Multidevice
+Prosforservices
Fiber is the best support to forecast any futur need from customers, and ease development of new
services

7. Customers
connected today
10 000
Customers targeted
throughtout New
Caledonia
80 000
DEPLOYMENT PLANNING DEPLOYMENT MAP
30 000
Access ongoing
FIBER DEPLOYMENT
FOR A FASTER AND MORE RESILIENT INTERNET ACCESS
Technical Centers
Access / Transmission Network
Each customer connected with FTTH
3years
5years
8years

9. OPT-NCOPT-NC
MERCI
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