A techno-economic evolutionary path for access technologies (presented in European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications NOC’99 Delft, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 1999)

Dimitris Katsianis (), Dimitris Varoutas (), I. Orfanos, Th. Sphicopoulos and S. Pantelis
Additional contact information
I. Orfanos: OTE
Th. Sphicopoulos: University of Athens
S. Pantelis: OTE

Industrial Organization from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive techno-economic evaluation of two multimedia cases based on xDSL and HFC technologies, illustrating their respective merits and pitfalls, allowing the definition of a reasonable investment policy. The scenarios considered reflect the point of view of both dominant operators and new entrants. Techno-economic results are presented in terms of costs and revenues from the multimedia services, net present value (NPV), cash flows and pay-back periods. The business cases presented here were studied using the tool developed by European Project ACTS 226/OPTIMUM and ACTS 364/TERA. This study evaluates financial results for different upgrade scenarios trying to provide guidelines for future broadband implementation strategies. The sensitivity of the photonic and xDSL equipment to the total investment is analysed taking into account the present value of them and their cost evolution. The significance of this equipment to the success of a business case is presented and the cost breakdown is discussed.

Keywords: telecommunications; ADSL; VDSL; HFC; Access networks; techno- economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2004-08-23
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ino
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 10. 10 pages, PDF zipped filed, prepared with Acrobat Writer, figures available by D.Varoutas@di.uoa.gr
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://econwpa.ub.uni-muenchen.de/econ-wp/io/papers/0408/0408004.pdf (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:wpa:wuwpio:0408004

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Industrial Organization from University Library of Munich, Germany
Bibliographic data for series maintained by EconWPA ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).