Showing papers on "Telecom infrastructure sharing published in 2007"

Teleuse on a Shoestring: Poverty reduction through telecom access at the 'Bottom of the Pyramid'

Abstract: This paper takes a unique look at telecom access and studies the perceived impacts of direct access to telecom services, that is, telephone ownership at a household level at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ in five developing Asian countries. It focuses on the perceived economic impact (positive or negative) of telecom ownership in terms of the potential to increase indirect income generation capacity or save on expenditure or transactions costs. The findings reveal that some telecom users do perceive the economic benefits of direct access to be high, but this finding is not seen across the board for a number of reasons explained. The paper is based on a large sample survey of telecom users at the BOP in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Thailand. Section 2 reviews the existing literature on the impacts of telecommunication. Section 3 explains the study design and methodology, and examines the difficulties faced in conducting a study of this nature and the methodological innovations undertaken. Section 4 explores in detail the impacts of telecom services at the BOP in the five countries. Section 5 concludes, looking at the policy implications from the study.

Designing for Technology Obsolescence Management

Abstract: Many types of products that have to be manufactured and supported for long periods of time lack control over critical parts of their supply chain, e.g., avionics, telecom infrastructure, and industrial controls. As a result, the components and technologies that these products depend on become obsolete long before the product’s field life (and sometimes even manufacturing life) ends. Obsolescence management, which is an inevitability for these products, should be considered during product design and when planning for life cycle sustainment. This paper addresses forecasting obsolescence and other strategic planning methods to minimize future obsolescence impact.

China's Telecom Industry on the Move: Domestic Competition, Global Ambition, and Leadership Transition

Abstract: China’s telecom sector has been one of the country’s fastest-growing industries during the past two decades. Recently, a number of large, rapidly expanding Chinese firms have emerged to compete successfully in the global market despite heavy competition from multinationals. As the business leaders of China’s flagship telecom companies become famous within China, their personal stories are beginning to influence the leadership styles and management practices of a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs. This paper examines the rise of China’s leading telecom firms (such as Huawei and ZTE) and the characteristics of their CEOs. Although the senior managers of China’s telecom industry do not have significant international exposure, they have not been deterred from adopting a “Go Out” strategy for expanding their business operations overseas.

Telecom Critical Infrastructure Simulations: Discrete-Event Simulation vs. Dynamic Simulation How Do They Compare?

Abstract: Critical national infrastructures for power, emergency services, finance, and other basic industries rely heavily on information and telecommunications networks (voice, data, and video) to provide services and conduct business. The telecommunication network is recognized by the federal government as one of the critical national infrastructures that must be maintained and protected against debilitating attacks. This paper describes a comparison between two simulation models of the voice telecommunications infrastructure for a metropolitan area for both wireline and wireless networks with millions of subscribers. One simulation is a very detailed discrete- event call-by-call simulation model, and the second is a higher level time-based system dynamics model. The purpose of these models is to investigate the availability of the telecom infrastructure under disruptions. The results show that the higher level system dynamics models can successfully match the summary results of the more detailed model and can be run several orders of magnitude faster.

Trade in Telecommunications Services: Doha and Beyond

Abstract: There is growing evidence that yesterday's commitments cannot cope with today's commercial reality. The telecom sector has undergone significant technological development in the past decade, and modern telecom services relate to a far broader, more varied, and more international set of economic activities than was generally understood during the Uruguay Round negotiations. The existing W/120 classifications for the telecom sector, together with the corresponding CPC, are confused and in part out-of-date, leading to some illogical segmentation. A functionally simplistic approach to telecom services sector classification, simply referring to any service consisting of the transmission and reception of signals by any electromagnetic means as suggested by the EC, would seem to open the door for WTO Members to make secure market access and national treatment commitments. However, the US-Gambling case may have a wider impact on the Doha Round's services talks, forcing countries to adopt standard approaches to making services concessions. Members are likely to become more reluctant to rely on their own definitions of what constitutes a market opening in certain sectors, and more cautious in scheduling new services commitments, particularly when scheduling commitments departing from the W/120, or without CPC references. This caution would certainly work against adopting the new 'simple' EC scheduling approach to replacing the W/120 classification system. In terms of competition and regulatory issues, the Reference Paper dates from 1996, when many Members were in the initial stages of reforming their telecom markets, and there has been much subsequent regulatory reform in the telecom sector. While the liberalization of telecom markets has yielded substantial benefits, the removal of barriers to entry, in itself, will rarely be sufficient to ensure that such benefits can be reaped. The Mexico-Telecom dispute was a milestone for the interpretation of both the Reference Paper and the GATS, confirming that regulatory issues have important implications for preserving the value of Members' commitments. After the Mexico-Telecom and US-Gambling disputes, the unfinished business for telecom services liberalization remains substantial. Unambiguous classification critical to ensure Members can rely on accurate identification of both their own and other Members' commitments. Technologically neutral commitments will be needed to guarantee the value of current negotiating effort against future waves of technological innovation. Full adherence to the Reference Paper will be vital to ensure the full realization of the access benefits granted by Members to each other.

The Telecom Industry and Context Awareness

Abstract: The expenditure telecom operators made to prepare themselves for the 3G (and beyond) environment are far from being re-earned and recent research has showed that mobile customers are not willing to spend more money on mobile communication. The telecom industry needs to search for new sources of revenue. Opportunities can be found in the area of context awareness. As location based services are taking off, telecom operators need to understand quickly the possible roles they can play in context aware services before other players in the industry do. Based on a research on context aware services this paper proposes some new business roles interesting fortelco's.

Integration and Application Platform of Service-Oriented Telecom Businesses

Abstract: At present, the telecom operational enterprises are faced with the problems of how to integrate the existed OSS systems to meet the clients' demands quickly and how to provide end-to-end business services with fewer costs. To achieve these, some new IT methods and technologies are needed by telecom operational enterprises so as to support the operation managements better and make a good collaboration among the telecom service providers, equipment vendors, sales/marketing departments and clients. This paper presents a new service-oriented analysis and design method for the telecom business integration procedures, and provides a common integration platform with service-oriented architecture to support the integration and execution of various heterogeneous legacy OSS systems in a manner of service-oriented business processes

On the changing face of service composition in telecom

Abstract: With the emergence of converged networks, Telecom operators are looking at composing Telecom functionality with 3rd party offerings to provide rich, innovative value-added services to their customers. In parallel, Internet Content providers like Google and Yahoo are rapidly moving towards adopting Web 2.0 technologies to enable a variety of end-user applications, and making them accessible to Telecom customers as well. This provides strong competition to similar paid-for services exposed on the Telecom portal. Telecom operators have recently started inspecting their service composition practises to see how it might be possible to exploit a Web 2.0 environment for rapid service creation. In this paper, we take a deeper look into service composition in a converged Web 2.0 Telecom ecosystem, consisting of Telecom functionality, 3rd party offerings and several categories of developers and users. We also propose a generic model for Telecom services in this ecosystem. Thereafter, we critically evaluate various existing service composition efforts for Telecom. Finally, we identify some open challenges and propose insights to address them.

Network Upgrade from Telecom Operators View

Abstract: This paper looks into some possible upgrade strategies for network upgrade from a telecom operators point of view taking into account infrastructure conditions.

Econometric Analysis of Telecommunications Investment's Impact on Telecom Development

Abstract: Based on the research literature in country and abroad,according to the statistical data of telecommunications investment in fixed assets,business volume of telecommunication services and popularization rate of telephone from 1980 to 2004,this paper analyzes the impact of telecommunications investment infixed assets on telecom development by using econometric method,such as co-integration test and Finite Distributed Lag(FDL) Model.Results show that,there is stable equilibrium between telecommunications investment in fixed assets and telecom development.

Integrated management system for technical infrastructure of telecom sites

Abstract: A company in which the implementation of integrated management system for technical infrastructure of telecom sites is described is one of the biggest operators of fixed telephony in Middle Europe and in Poland. The innovation is the great power of such companies. On competitive and fast technologically developing market operators fix their attention, among other things, on implementation of innovations in the sphere of management of technical infrastructure of telecom sites. Technical infrastructure of telecom site means the equipment which deliver AC and DC electrical energy with different parameters, air conditioning systems, fire protection systems, systems of controlled access and other equipment connected for example with hermetization of the network. The paper presents the practical application process of the system for telecom sites infrastructure management, which is presently dedicated to power and air conditioning equipment. Implemented system is based on client-server architecture, providing data to main or specialized monitoring centers. The server cooperates with specialized microprocessor controllers located at telecom sites or with technological controllers of supervised power and air conditioning systems. The integration with other, presently operating supervisory systems is also possible. The system monitors the equipment in real time. It provides data acquisition, saving and data processing and facilitates taking decisions which concern the operation and service of supervised equipment. The implementation of the system enable to create the platform which made possible the integration in one system the monitoring of whole technical infrastructure. The benefits to the system operator from the integrated management system for technical infrastructure of telecom sites implementation in more than 8000 sites were analyzed in the paper.

Boom of Telecom Sector in Pakistan and its Impacts on Pakistani Culture

Abstract: The thesis has provided extensive information about how this boom occurred gradually in Pakistan, present circumstances and situations of the sector and future prospects of this segment in Pakistan ...

Liberalizing the Telecommunications Sector: Making Pakistan an Information Economy

Abstract: This Country Report will focus on Pakistan, and will produce an analytical description of the Telecom sector in Pakistan based on the survey of the telecom regulatory environment, available ICT indicators, and review of legal instruments, government policy documents, and literature pertaining to telecom regulatory framework of Pakistan.Part II briefly traces the history of the telecom legislation of Pakistan and then documents and analyzes the telecommunications reform and regulatory process that started in 1996 with the enactment of the Pakistan Telecommunications (Re-organization) Act. Part III documents the Telecom Regulatory Environment Survey results and link them to the regulatory changes brought to fore recently, and their impact on the industry as measured through various indicators. Part IV highlights the efforts in promoting ICTs in Pakistan. Part V concludes the paper by identifying the challenges ahead and making recommendations to address them.

The private equity takeover of telecom infrastructure in denmark

Abstract: The debate over the implications of private equity leveraged buyouts revolves primarily around one central issue, the extent to which private equity ownership promotes efficient long-term investment and operational management in the target firms, or the maximisation of short-term returns to private equity investors to the detriment of the target firm’s long-term development. Supporters of private equity buyouts claim they introduce a longer term planning horizon for firms with public shareholders who have demanded that management be preoccupied with quarterly earnings improvements and short-term movements of the stock price. Critics claim private equity groups maximise the short-term cash value of the assets for payouts to investors and impose unsustainable debt structures that preclude investment in long-term growth opportunities. It would appear from the evidence to date that the objective of the leveraged buyout of TDC is not to invest in TDC’s growth and development, but rather to withdraw as much cash as possible from TDC through the combination of special dividend payments, management and financing fees, and finally the sale of a much smaller residual company.

The Influence of North and South Separation of China Telecom on China Telecom Industry: Quantitative Analysis

Abstract: New China Telecom and China Netcom were founded on May 16th 2002, in order to break China Telecom's monopoly in local service access and thus form multiple and all-round competitive market. The paper studies the influence which the event produced on 74 telecommunications organizations' stock price and performance. The methodology is the event study. The results of empirically implementing the approach indicate that the event produced unfavorable influence on China telecommunications, which is inconsistent with the original aim. In fact, the division of primary China Telecom changed the national monopoly into the south-north area monopoly. In other words, there hasn't formed the effective competitive system in China telecommunications. China telecommunications should take both scale efficiency and economic efficiency into account in the process of reformation. When introducing the competition, the government can enforce the regulation by implementing the incentive regulation.

Towards a Telecommunication Service Oriented Architecture

Abstract: Web Services are often used for providing and composing business services but this approach does not scale easily for telecommunication services and for value added ones, composing services offered by IT providers with telecom operators ones. The typical request-response interaction style is the main bottleneck when applying web services protocols to the telecom domain, which requires higher performances and needs efficient ways to handle notifications of events produced by different network resources in the telecommunication infrastructure. This paper evaluates benefits and drawbacks of Web Service applications within a Telecom domain, analyzing current standardization proposals for asynchronous web services, which are a necessary evolution towards a fully interoperable telecommunication service oriented architecture.

Competition and liberalization policies and regulations for telecommunications industries in China and Pakistan: A comparative analysis

Abstract: The economic growth of the country is linked with the development of the telecommunications industry. While most of the developed countries already have liberalized their telecom markets for open com- petition during 1980s and 1990s, this process is still under progress in developing countries of the world. The approach varies vastly among different countries due to different social and economic conditions, how- ever, countries can learn from each other's experiences to review their policies to get the objectives of full competition, universal service, protection of consumer interests, and deployment of advanced services. This paper compares the different policies for the development of telecommunications industries in China and Pakistan and also makes some suggestions for the forthcoming converged world from the experience of de- veloped countries. The main focus of this paper is on competition and liberalization policies. Pakistan has taken revolutionary steps to bring competition to its telecom industry by adopting the approach of full market liberalization as compared with China's gradual and controlled approach. New entry in Pakistan has been facilitated by all regulatory and policy means to attract private sector investment. China is trying to protect government-owned telecom operators by restricting entry in this sector due to concerns of Universal Ser- vice and foreign companies' dominance of telecom industry. China is trying for fair domestic competition while Pakistan has adopted the approach of free competition. It is obvious from some economic and tele- com indicators that telecom industry is exponentially growing after the liberalization and de-regularization of telecom industry in Pakistan The establishment of an independent regulator and the early promulgation of long-awaited Telecom Law are must for China. Both of these countries need more expertise and competency to accommodate convergence in reforms to facilitate the penetration of innovative technologies and services in their telecom industries.

The Acquisition of Uganda Telecom Majority Shareholding by LAP Greencom in March 2007

Abstract: This paper examines the recent acquisition of Uganda Telecom. The uniqueness of this acquisition is based on the fact that not only is this company operating in emerging markets (Africa and the Middle East), it is operating in the context of the African telecom market where lately liberalization and deregulation have taken root and a new phenomenon where multinational telecom companies aggressively pursuing licenses or acquiring smaller telecom companies in a bid to take over the market has emerged. It recounts the events surrounding Uganda Telecom's bid to survive in the wake of increasing multinational competition, reducing margins, fast changing technology and deregulation. As a follow-up on the World Bank led privatization wave which swept across the world where government owned public enterprises, of which Uganda Telecom was one, were sold off to bring efficiency in markets and drive growth in economies, it tests the economic assumptions and theory that lent credibility to Government of Uganda model to telecom privatization where Uganda Telecom was not fully divested in order to protect the young telecom market as it introduced competition. The main discussion also covers the nature and size of suitors this acquisition attracted, the motivations of each of the parties, the value at which this company was eventually sold clearly pointing to its potential in the market and the opportunity available. And whereas the takeover was an inevitable choice, the discussion covers some of the strategies that ensured that the previous shareholder maximized the company's value. Now that the sale has been concluded it also looks at the events immediately surrounding the post agreement phase and concludes with key recommendations and strategies on success going forward.

SOA based Context Aware Services Infrastructure - An Approach to enable Telecom Service Provider Transformation in a Web 2.0 Environment

Abstract: As telecom carriers migrate their networks to a common IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based infrastructure, they are confronted with another disruptive change in their business model from the Internet world – Web 2.0. Web 2.0 allows users to generate and collaborate content amongst themselves. Traditionally, telecom carriers, along with their partner content providers, have been the only producers of content in their network for the users. However, today (as we are seeing in the Internet world) users would like to share their content (photos, files, music, and video) with their friends and colleagues. A key attribute in this sharing model is the role of context. Context can be defined with attributes such as presence and location. In order to introduce this model in their networks, it is important for telecom carriers to ensure that they have a proper architecture framework to allow the sharing of content amongst users, keeping context in mind. This paper focuses on the SOA based services model that will allow for the transformation of telecom service providers into a digital media centric content business in a Web 2.0 environment. Based on our industry implementations, we will describe the hierarchy of content services in a layered model of foundational and composite services. This will form our basis for a context aware content services infrastructure.