{"id":36857,"date":"2024-01-16T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T09:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=36857"},"modified":"2024-01-16T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:07:07","slug":"vodafone-uk-warn-over-costs-of-adding-battery-backup-to-mobile-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/01\/vodafone-uk-warn-over-costs-of-adding-battery-backup-to-mobile-sites.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone UK Warn Over Costs of Adding Battery Backup to Mobile Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mobile operator Vodafone<\/a> UK has today highlighted the potentially huge cost challenges involved with adding backup power (batteries etc.) to their network of 12,000+ mast sites across the country, which could be one of the possible outcomes from Ofcom<\/a>’s new probe into the issue of inadequate power backup.<\/p>\n

According to Ofcom<\/a>’s probe (here<\/a>), the amount of battery backup deployed across mobile Radio Access Network<\/strong> (RAN) sites varies by operator (i.e. Vodafone<\/a>, EE<\/a> (BT<\/a>), O2<\/a> (Virgin Media<\/a>) and Three UK<\/a>), both in terms of the proportion of cell sites that are backed up and for how long.<\/p>\n

However, the impact of recent winter storms (i.e. disrupting mobile connectivity due to power loss) and the migration away from traditional (PSTN) landline phones (newer IP \/ digital-based phones can also go down during power outages, without local battery backup<\/a>), helps to underline that consumers are placing greater importance upon the dependability of their mobile phones and network, such as for emergency calls.<\/p>\n

The regulator’s existing guidance doesn\u2019t yet include measures relating to the provision of additional power backup at mobile sites, but mobile operators are aware that the very fact Ofcom<\/a> are even seeking feedback on the issue is an indication that this may change. Vodafone<\/a> suggests the regulator wants operators to ensure their “network can function for as long as possible without being connected to the National Grid<\/em>“, thus avoiding a situation “where huge numbers of people would also have to make do without connectivity<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Vodafone’s Concerns and Proposal<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The most obvious challenge in all this is one of cost. Power storage solutions, particularly for major network sites, need to be very durable and tend to be quite expensive to both add and maintain (i.e. the cost of ongoing maintenance \/ replacements and any extra engineer training etc.). So, to the obvious question this raises, who pays?<\/p>\n

Nicki Lyons, Vodafone UK’s Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Mobile Network Operators cannot be asked to shoulder this financial burden alone. Building redundancy into every element of the network would be another significant investment, in addition to the 5G<\/a> and full fibre ambitions that we share with Government.<\/p>\n

Vodafone is proposing a shared funding model<\/strong>. The Mobile Network Operators would of course be contributors, but so would the Government, the utility companies that we pay to provide secure and reliable energy services, and the cloud companies that have benefitted significantly from the mass adoption of mobile and the countrywide rollout of networks, but have not contributed financially in any material manner. The shared funding model would be holistic, avoiding any disproportionate impact on any one industry or company.<\/p>\n

The Australian Government has taken an interesting approach. By launching the Strengthening Telecommunications Against Natural Disasters (STAND) programme, Mobile Network Operators were able to apply for grants of up to $7.7 million to deliver enhancements and improved resilience to telecommunications facilities in regional and remote communities affected by natural disasters.<\/p>\n

This stands in stark contrast to Japan where Mobile Network Operators bear sole financial responsibility for network energy resilience. However, the average amount that Japanese customers pay each month for mobile contracts in 2022 was roughly \u00a327. In comparison, Vodafone customers in the UK paid an average of \u00a314.20 a month \u2013 almost half as much.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Vodafone are right to highlight the issue of cost, and the idea of a shared funding model is definitely one that should be fully explored. On the other hand, it’s notable that the operator’s shared funding proposal makes no direct mention of customers potentially needing to face higher bills, which we think is likely to be an understandable and inevitable reality (i.e. when the costs of service provision rise, then so to your bills).<\/p>\n

The closest we get to this is a dangerously oversimplified comparison with pricing in Japan. But country-to-country comparisons are notoriously tricky and should always be taken with a big pinch of salt, as there can be significant additional differences between economies, competition and market developments, all of which go into influencing end-user pricing. Not to mention differences between individual operators and package features. Suffice to say, it’s a minefield that’s best avoided, unless you’re willing to do it properly, which a single paragraph from Vodafone does not achieve.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile offers an unlimited data plan that, at today’s rates, costs the equivalent of \u00a317.69 per month (3,278 yen inc. TAX), although some fair use limitations may apply to speeds. This also includes all the usual free domestic calls etc. So in Japan, flexible and affordable mobile packages do exist, regardless of battery provision rules.<\/p>\n

The operator also manages to questionably include “cloud companies<\/em>” into their cost sharing proposal, albeit without defining precisely what they mean. But the language they use here reminds us of the many Net Neutrality<\/strong> debates over the years, where major mobile and broadband ISPs have demanded that internet content providers (e.g. Netflix, websites, cloud \/ content providers etc.) pay them for the traffic they carry.<\/p>\n

However, we think it\u2019s always worth remembering that demand for broadband and mobile internet services would not exist without attractive internet content. Some ISPs may complain that the increase in related data usage from these services and others raises their costs, but that is a cost of doing business and is usually reflected in the prices we all pay as end-users. Equally, the internet and ever faster connections wouldn’t be worth using if attractive online content and services didn’t exist.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, there’s still a cost challenge to solve here and, no matter where those costs end up falling, consumers will often still end up paying for it at some point along the chain. Suffice to say, it’ll be interesting to see how much of a cost impact the operators actually anticipate, since at present we haven’t seen any hard figures from either Ofcom or the mobile operators. Much will also depend upon precisely what requirements Ofcom ends up setting and whether it will be applicable to all mast sites or only some. The debate is only just getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today highlighted the potentially huge cost challenges involved with adding backup power (batteries etc.) to their network of 12,000+ mast sites across the country, which could be one of the possible outcomes from Ofcom’s new probe into the issue of inadequate power backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,406,60,82,36,96],"class_list":["post-36857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-5g","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-net-neutrality","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/111765004586115952","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nVodafone UK Warn Over Costs of Adding Battery Backup to Mobile Sites - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today highlighted the potentially huge cost challenges involved with adding backup power (batteries etc.) to their network\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/01\/vodafone-uk-warn-over-costs-of-adding-battery-backup-to-mobile-sites.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vodafone UK Warn Over Costs of Adding Battery Backup to Mobile Sites - 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