Techno-economic evaluation of 3G and beyond mobile business alternatives

Abstract

Three business case scenarios in the context of emerging mobile access network technologies and business players have been studied and the economical results are presented. The aim is to cover some of the most interesting business alternatives in providing the new 3G and beyond services including cases where the operator may have an existing second-generation cellular network or not, and a license for the 3G UMTS network or not. The scenarios have been analyzed in different Western European country groups that are not exactly representative of any defined country, but rather share typical demographic characteristics. Investments and operational expenditures are identified and the results show how diverse business models and

Impact of 3G and beyond technology development and pricing on mobile data service provisioning, usage and diffusion

“…Most of the technology/market research of telecommunication systems and services are not public but done by commercial analysts or inside companies. However, public funded research projects have produced some techno-economic analyses that combine economics, market forecasts and business strategy aspects with a comprehensive technology modeling (Olsen et al, 1996;Ims, 1998;Katsianis et al, 2001;Monath et al, 2003;Harno et al, 2007).…”

“…Also major WCDMA handsets launches followed soon after the ''wait and see" period in the beginning of 2000 decade. The profitability prospects of the broadband mobile data can be quite solidly demonstrated as the costs and capacities of the advanced wireless technologies are examined, although no big spending on mobile data has yet taken place (Harno et al, 2007).…”

Achieving low-cost UMTS networks via pricing

“…Some operators even claim that what UMTS does to the mobile network is the same as what Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) does to the Internet. Therefore, UMTS is the crucial step for GSM operators to keep them competitive in the wireless market [1,11,14,17,18].…”

Introduction to the special issue on telecommunications techno-economics

“…Mobile and fixed networks have been analysed in a timely fashion. Harno et al [3] present three business case scenarios in the context of emerging mobile access network technologies. The paper covers some of the most interesting business alternatives in providing the new third-generation (3G) and beyond services including cases where the operator may or may not have an existing secondgeneration cellular network and a license for the 3G UMTS network.…”