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Telecom infrastructure sharing

About: Telecom infrastructure sharing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 442 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2727 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a model of state-governed economic development in the Asian region to the telecommunications reform process and the emerging information superhighway in order to compare the performance of different countries in the region.
Abstract: Much of the booming expansion of telecom infrastructure and services in developing countries is triggered by significant reforms in market structure and ownership. However, in a world‐wide trend towards privatization and liberalization, Asian states have distinctively managed to stay involved in the reform of the telecoms and information sectors. Nowhere else has the state attempted to maintain the control that it has in Asia, to manage the process of reform. In contrast to other regions, Asian countries have chosen to retain state ownership and control of service provision and have allowed partial competition. However, a macro, international, comparison blurs details and makes Asian telecom reforms appear quite homogeneous. A closer look, instead, shows substantial variation of policy choices among the countries in the region. The paper applies a model of state‐governed economic development in the Asian region to the telecommunications reform process and the emerging information superhighway ini...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of investment in the infrastructure of the telecommunications sector on economic growth in the Arab countries, using advanced econometric techniques, such as fully modified ordinary least squares, and panel data analysis utilizing cross sectional data covering 12 countries and a period of 20 years 1996-2015.
Abstract: This study attempts to assess the impact of investment in the infrastructure of the telecommunications sector on economic growth in the Arab countries, using advanced econometric techniques, such as fully modified ordinary least squares, and panel data analysis utilizing cross sectional data covering 12 countries and a period of 20 years 1996-2015. The study finds evidence that investment in infrastructure for the telecommunications sector has a positive and significant effect on economic growth in non-oil producing countries in the long-term; it shows that a 10% increase in the number of telecom subscribers leads to an increase of 3% in real gross domestic product in these countries. The results also show that there is no impact for telecommunication on the economic growth of oil-producing countries. In light of the above findings, policy makers should pay more attention to the telecom sector in the Arab countries, and encourage investment in this sector.

6 citations

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23 Apr 2015
TL;DR: This work evaluates the new challenges and opportunities that are offered by the adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in telecom sector and its impact on industry value chain and the operational model and indicates that security is still considered as the primary concern that forces cloud into back foot.
Abstract: Cloud computing and virtualization are two key technology priorities for telecom service providers. Besides total cost reduction, there are many strategic objectives while adopting cloud technology into the telecom sector. Telecom service providers core assets and strength lies in their communication networks, but these alone are not enough to maintain the industry in the higher level that it once enjoyed. Combining cloud computing technology and networks, telecom service providers can become a significant force in the cloud providers domain and more importantly to return to the growth path. This work evaluates the new challenges and opportunities that are offered by the adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in telecom sector and its impact on industry value chain and the operational model. Results indicate that even though there are many technical and non-technical challenges still existing, security is still considered as the primary concern that forces cloud into back foot. This study also brings out the fact that, like all other technologies involving in business, cloud technology also brings in many new advantages as well as few disadvantages. Whilst several studies and research works have been done on cloud computing for IT sector, limited research work has been found on cloud computing for telecommunication. Also, majority of the research done in this area is based on industrial research perspective. The significance of our work comes in this context.

6 citations

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TL;DR: The evolution of the competitive telecom industry provides an instructive analogy with respect to the way that monopoly providers responded to the opening up of their infrastructure to competitors and the rapid development of intermodal competition as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: The findings challenge the current perception in both academia and industry that passive infrastructure sharing can only produce positive effects, and therefore call for further investigations on the financial benefits of infrastructure sharing.
Abstract: The traditional mobile communications business model was based on full ownership of network infrastructure. However, network infrastructure sharing has been a trend among mobile network operators. Sharing traditional mobile network infrastructure which were not designed originally for sharing has become prevalent in the face of stiff competition, regulatory requirement and declining revenues. This, despite the reduction in capital expenditure for operators, brings technical challenges with regards to network planning, optimization and expansion in multi-operator shared environments. This paper briefly introduces models of passive infrastructure sharing and their advantages, and investigates the technical challenges which are inherent to communications tower sharing. The effects of non-optimal antenna height on coverage and signal quality, as well as those of tower loading constraints on transmission link quality are investigated among others. Simulation results and on-site measurements confirm these challenges, which may increase the operation expenditure of mobile networks.Our findings challenge the current perception in both academia and industry that passive infrastructure sharing can only produce positive effects, and therefore call for further investigations on the financial benefits of infrastructure sharing. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ij-ict.v2i3.4553

6 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202242
20218
20204
20197
20186