Global Service Provider Strategies and Networking Alternatives

Ron Landi and Mahesh Raisinghani
Additional contact information
Ron Landi: WorldCom, USA
Mahesh Raisinghani: University of Dallas, USA

Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), 2004, vol. 17, issue 1, 19-36

Abstract: Deregulation and liberalization of the telecommunications markets has led to tough international competition. This paper presents well-established approaches used by large telecom service providers in assessing the technical and market forces impacting their network planning and strategies. This paper, in the form of a tutorial, takes the reader through the assessment and analysis processes dealing with the requirements, design and implementation issues facing global communications carriers today. Four generic telecommunication network models (varying based on the degree of capital intensity required) are presented to demonstrate that a strategy of employing these generic models to appropriate settings generates cost savings and network efficiencies. A specific case analysis conducted by the global communications carrier for a regional network in Italy is included that discusses strategic planning for the provision of new data and Internet services, and assesses alternative network designs and technologies to provide optimized solutions and service delivery.

Date: 2004
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve. ... 4018/irmj.2004010102 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:igg:rmj000:v:17:y:2004:i:1:p:19-36

Access Statistics for this article

Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ) is currently edited by George Kelley

More articles in Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ) from IGI Global
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journal Editor ().