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.

The inquiry into telecom enterprises' cloud computing strategy: A case study of China telecom

Abstract: Business transformation is a now common action of global telecom enterprises, and cloud computing technology in this moment provides a direction and opportunity for the transformation. As one of three major Chinese telecom operators, China Telecom has also seized this opportunity. Aiming to become the leading supplier of intelligent communication pipeline, a provider of integrated platform as well as a participant of offering content services and applications, China Telecom has formulated specific cloud strategy and implementing guarantees, and put forward corresponding cloud computing strategy framework under the guidance of its transformation strategy.

Development of internet across transition economies

Abstract: In a global and innovation driven economy, the use of the tools provided by new telecommunications technologies such as the Internet, can play a crucial role to reduce transactions costs and to allow exchanges that otherwise would not take place. There has been an extensive literature trying to quantify the contribution of technology in general and in particular of Information Technology (IT) in achieving the US productivity acceleration of the late 1990s with has generated a lively debate. The role and contribution of IT to increase productivity and growth has been also been extended for selected OECD countries. However, there is st ill limited empirical evidence on transition and developing economies, also due both to lack of adequate or reliable census data, with most of the analysis focusing on cross country analysis. This paper attempts to tackle similar issues considering new microeconomic evidence from survey data from a major enterprise level survey (implemented by EBRD and the World Bank in the summer of 1999) and on business case studies consisting of in -depth interviews of general directors and senior management of enterprise s across selected countries in the region carried out in the summer of 2000. Our key regressions results and can be summarised as follows. At the enterprise-level innovation as well as pressures from competition is positively and significantly associated to the use of Internet. As expected we find out that Internet is likely to be associated with greater agglomeration, raising concerns on the risks on a digital divide. At the country level, Internet is more likely to be adopted in countries characterised by higher income, democracy, better basic telecom infrastructure. As regards to enterprise performance, the use of the Internet is positively and significantly associated to better enterprise performance, even controlling for many of the other enterprise and country level variables that are associated with enhanced performance. In sum, the use of advanced telecom services represents a great opportunity for transition economies to accelerate progress in the transition process. However, for them to make a sol id contribution to long term growth, markets must be allowed to work and not be held back by non-supportive regulatory frameworks.

Understanding the dynamics of broadband markets: A comparative case study of Flanders and the Netherlands

Abstract: The Digital Agenda for Europe sets out clear goals for providing high speed broadband to all its residents, but leaves the implementation of this plan to the individual Member States. Because of large economic, cultural and political differences, the roads to realizing these ambitious goals are varying in between these Member States. This paper investigates the dynamics of fixed broadband markets in two neighboring regions: Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, and the Netherlands. The historical developments in telecom markets in both regions are highly similar and resulted in both areas in a duopoly between the incumbent, operating DSL on the former telephone network, and one or more cable operators, using the DOCSIS technology to offer broadband on the former analogue television network. However, in the race towards realizing the Digital Agenda goals, it comes down to the small differences in between both regions: the existence of housing organizations in the Netherlands has led to quite some Fiberto- the-Home deployment, whereas in Flanders, the traditional operators use evolutionary upgrades of both DSL and DOCSIS to realize the European targets.

Market Competence of BSNL in the Present Dynamic Telecom World

Abstract: The Telecom market in India is 2 nd in the world after beating USA and trailing only after China. The global meltdown did not affect the telecom market world wide. While the market is making high profit, competitors are expanding their business, and going international. The Indian telecom behemoth, which once upon a time was the largest telecom player in the country, BSNL is seeing its market share and revenues shrink even as the telecom market grows rapidly. Inspite of having many strengths, which private players cannot even think of, BSNL is facing many problems after the entry of the private players into Indian telecom market, which needs to be addressed to wake up to the sleeping giant to regain its position as a market leader. This article makes a brief overview of the Indian telecom market, analyses the facts concerned with reference to BSNL in the present situation. The paper also suggests a long term solution to sustain the market pressure and to regain the past glory.

Market Opportunity of China Telecom 3G Toward 4G - A Social-Technical Analysis for its Future Development

Abstract: In the Information and communication Technology (ICT) field, the success a new player will face is the challenge for the opportunity of new market development. China's mobile subscribers grew by 9.93 millions to 1.132 billions in February 2013.The convenience of communication prompted China’s growth, but there is little information available in literature about how it happened and what the next development steps will be for the China Telecom Industry.The purpose of this paper is an attempt to picture the future growth path of China Telecom market opportunities from 3G toward 4G and beyond, including viewing this from the angles of telecom/internet e-commerce regulation development; globalization of values; and telecom universal services in China. By investigating the development of TD-SCDMA networks as well as the TD-LTE and FD-LTE current status and also the mobile-TV/ cloud computing trends of China, it is estimated that the country’s settings of objectives for telecom growth may drive fast new market developments. Both technology and management growth of the three operators will mature.This paper relies heavily on the ideas of economics, governmental regulations and social responsibility from Professor: Joseph Eugene Stigliz (a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science 2001). In this research, the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) will act as an important tool to understand the Chinese way of new technology implementation, and will use the TD-SCDMA networks case study as a model. The ANT, Michael Serre’s work influenced Bruno Latour and others like Michel Callon.This paper is based on work done in China since 2001 in Beijing by the author. It draws on industry and academic sources, interviews with friends from telecom industry elements and governmental policy making departments in China. Due to the time frame, difficulty of access to any of the actual decision making processes, and frequent ‘off-the-record’ sources this type of research faces acute methodological challenges.This paper suggests that the convergence across internet, telecommunications, TV broadcasting networks etc. will form a new market beyond the traditional telecommunications industry. The pervasion of the huge popularity of the internet will continue to involve all aspects of society as China presses forward to establish its innovation credentials.