info: Volume 11 Issue 3
Table of contents - Special Issue: Techno‐economic modelling of telecommunications networks and services
Guest Editors: Dimitris Varoutas, Heikki Hmminen, Ilari Welling
Using cost based price calculations in a converged network
Koen Casier, Sofie Verbrugge, Jan Van Ooteghem, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Piet DemeesterThe purpose of this paper is to show how in a converged network, all services are provided over the same network infrastructure. This obfuscates the costs of the different…
Service cost model and cost comparative studies
Carmen Mas Machuca, Øyvind Moe, Joerg Eberspächer, Monika Jaeger, Andreas GladischThe purpose of this paper is to propose a service cost model which can be used to evaluate the impact of different management functionalities or network platforms to the service…
Analyzing the WiMAX investment costs and NPV distributions for real option valuation
V. RiihimäkiThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the suitability of the real option methods in the valuation of WiMAX networks. Particularly, the shapes of the probability distributions…
Techno‐economic analysis of beyond 3G mobile technology alternatives
Jarmo HarnoThe purpose of this paper is to show how the bulk of the mobile telecom traffic is starting to migrate towards internet and IP based services, and the choice of alternative paths…
Bundling vertically differentiated communications services to leverage market power
Jan KrämerThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and how bundling services may achieve leverage of market power from the telco's home to a secondary service market (e.g. video…
On the economics of fixed‐mobile convergence
Theodoros Rokkas, Dimitris Varoutas, Dimitris Katsianis, Timo Smura, Kumar Renjish, Mikko Heikkinen, Jarmo Harno, Mario Kind, Dirk Von Hugo, Thomas MonathThe purpose of this paper is to show that fixed‐mobile convergence (FMC) has gathered much interest in the telecommunications industry lately. Integrated operators (who own both…
Evaluation of FSO and FTTH technologies using techno‐economic and risk analysis
Theodoros Rokkas, Dimitris Katsianis, Thomas Kamalakis, Dimitris Varoutas, Thomas SphicopoulosThe purpose of this paper is to carry out a techno‐economic evaluation of the business prospects of Free Space Optical (FSO) technology as an alternative last mile solution
Demographic analysis for consumer spend in communications
Ossi Pöllänen, Lauri ElorantaThe purpose of this paper is to create a global view of consumer spending, taking into account income and rural population density in countries where mobile communications is…