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.

Indian Telecom: Regulation, Spectrum Allocation and Dispute Management

Abstract: Legal disputes have stymied the progressof the Indian telecom industry. This paperuses a contest theory model, where legalbattles are a form of contest, to show thatthere can be equilibrium without legalbattle. But this needs the policy makers tohave dispute management as a prime areaof focus. In that context the paper suggestssuitable policy design against the backdropof major telecom disputes. Subhasish M Chowdhury University of East Anglia Debabrata Datta Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad T he privatisation of the telecom industry, the advent of cellulartelephony and the concomitant scarcity of spectrum haveburdened governments worldwide with the task of allocatingthe scarce spectrum among incumbent firms and potential entrants.These developments also throw open a challenge to economicresearchers—that of modelling a market where firms compete, subjectto availability of a scarce natural resource allocated by the government.Given that spectrum is in short supply and acquiring a larger share ofthe spectrum means more profit, it can be concluded that there will beconflict over spectrum acquisition and firms will engage in rent seekingactivities. Unless the government (or the appointed regulating body)manages this task of spectrum distribution and regulation efficiently,disputes will surface and firms are likely to take recourse to legal redressalprocedures. What the nature of equilibrium will be in this kind of marketis an open question. In this paper we address this issue, using the Indiantelecom industry as a case study.Before 1984, the telecom sector in India was operated exclusively bythe government. In 1985 the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)was created as a separate department to serve as the primary policy-maker and regulator for the telecom industry. The telecom sector wasopened to private firms in 1991 to bring in value added teleservicesother than fixed telephony. The Government of India released the National

A telecom energy vision to 2005, power for future telecom networks and customer equipment

Abstract: This paper intends to present a vision of what the energy supply of telecom networks could be like in the year 2005. It deals with society's development towards an ever-increasing dependence on continuously operating telecommunications and on power supply. Light is shed on the convergence of different kinds of telecom networks into one universal telecom network together with the convergence of telecom networks and supply mains. The technology of broadband transmission on copper at the same time opened for the possibility of transmission of communication in the supply mains. Telecom networks and supply mains amalgamated in the access networks in a great number of new points because the broadband equipment requires power supply. Changes in the conditions of the powering of the new telecom networks is described together with the new structure of the telecom networks. Ever-increasing demands are raised for independent energy supply of the telecom networks during prolonged failures of the public energy supply. The strategy of powering the access networks and the customer equipment with remote power supply without battery backup is discussed. The powering of future emergency communication systems and different environmental aspects related to energy are focused upon.

What Impinges the Choice of Cell Phone Connection

Abstract: Telecommunications, being one of the prime support services is required not only for rapid growth, but also for the modernization of various sectors of the economy. It has become especially important in recent years because of enormous growth of Information Technology (IT) and its linkage to the other sectors. Long back, the telecom network in India was owned and managed by government as it is considered as a strategic service. During that time, the telecom industry had a monopoly. Liberalization made the Government to adopt a gradual approach for the telecom sector reforms. Through selective privatization, competition was managed in different segments of the telecom market. In 1992, India introduced private competition in value-added services followed by opening up of the cellular and basic services for local area to private competition. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was constituted in 1997 as an independent regulator in this sector. With an addition of more than 6 million connections per month, India has become one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world. The expanding spectrum and enormous growth have made the cellular operations highly competitive. Although the network in rural areas is expanding, but still the rural areas are not adequately covered. India is the 4th largest telecom market in Asia after China, Japan and South Korea. India is the 5th largest telecom market in the world and 2nd largest among emerging economies of Asia. Contribution of telecom sector in terms of revenue is 2.1 percent of the GDP as compared to 2.8 percent in developed economies.

Appraising Investments in New Telecom Technologies: The Case of Swedish Telecom

Abstract: Investment management and investment appraisals of new technologies in Swedish Telecom's network have been investigated in an exploratory manner. Investments in new telecom technologies are difficult to appraise because of, among other things, systems interdependence, technical change and competition. It is argued that investment appraisals need to be more closely integrated with strategy and that it is essential for management to carefully match investment management with different types of investments in order to alleviate measurement problems and to provide the right organizational incentives for investments in new technologies.