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• the Australian map entitled NBN Rollout Map, developed and maintained by the state

company of NBNCo, which constructs a wholesale broadband network in the whole


territory of Australia and Tasmania and is the operator of this network. The map is
available at http://www.nbnco.com.au/rollout/rollout-map.html
• New Zealand's map developed by a governmental organisation State Services
Commission operating in the Ministry of Economic Development of New Zealand.
The map has been transferred to koordinates.com, a private company managing the
governmental geodesy and cartography. The map is available at
http://koordinates.com/maps/BroadbandMap/collections
As far as European systems are concerned, stocktaking exercises in Germany and in Great
Britain are worth mentioning.
In Germany, telecommunications undertakings have submitted information about their
infrastructure and planned investments to the Ministry of Economy since 2005. The system in
the form of an atlas entitled Infrastrukturatlas, managed by the federal regulator
Bundesnetzagentur is available at:
http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunikation/Infrastrukturatlas/infr
astrukturatlas_node.html
Maps and visualisations of coverage with broadband access broken down into data flow
capacities and individual access technologies are available on the special web page of the
Federal Ministry of Science and Technology launched in 2010, maintained as a
Breitbandatlas on geolocation layers provided by TÜV Rheinland, a German group of
certifying companies running quality and safety audits. The atlas is available at
http://www.breitbandatlas.de
In Great Britain, the regulator - Ofcom collects data from operators with significant market
power (other operators and access service providers may submit data on a voluntary basis),
making them available in the form of a UK Fixed Broadband Map. The map with data from
the previous year is available at http://maps.ofcom.org.uk/broadband/
In Portugal, the CIS scheme was developed by the regulator - ICP-ANACOM pursuant to the
amendment of the Telecommunications Law of 2009. A similar project, entitled E-
infrastruktūra, is being launched by the Lithuanian regulator RRT, and the Romanian
regulator ANCOM is also planning to develop a system.
The EU projects related to the mapping of broadband access and telecommunications
infrastructure resources, such as Bottom-up Broadband and Broadband Mapping Initiative
have not reached beyond introductory stage. As part of the second initiative, TÜV Rheinland
conducted a survey on broadband access maps in the EU. The results of the survey are to
serve as a basis for a short report on the European projects on access maps. Meanwhile, the
Working Group NaN operating within CEPT (the European Conference of Postal and
Telecommunications Administrations), an organisation which coordinates the regulation of
postal and telecommunications markets in Europe, is focusing on numbering and network
issues. TRIS project team focused, on technical issues related to regulation, including the
mapping of network infrastructure, is one of the project teams (PT) of the WG NaN. UKE
actively participates in the TRIS debates sharing the Polish experience regarding the mapping
of telecommunications infrastructure with its partners.

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