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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"A model for calculating interconnection costs in telecommunications / / edited by ... [Paul Noumba Um]"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2004"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-280-08508-8"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786610085088"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-585-49516-5"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"x, 67 pages : illustrations ; ; 28 cm. + + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"384.6/4"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Telecommunication - Rates - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Mathematical models"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Telecommunication - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Costs - Mathematical models"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- About the Authors -- 1. Introduction -- Preliminary Results Provided by the Cost Model -- The Limits of the Model -- 2. Guidebook Overview -- Cost Modeling Principles -- User Guide -- The Model -- 3. Cost Modeling Principles -- Regulation of Interconnection -- Essential Facilities -- Cost Determination Methodologies -- Economic Criteria for Assessing Costs -- The LRIC Concept -- Advantages and Drawbacks of LRIC -- Definition of Interconnection Services -- Definition of the Increment -- Application to African Telecommunications Networks -- The Average Size of an African Telecommunications Network -- Nodes and Links -- Transit -- 4. Modeling Principles -- The Modeling Principles -- A Long-Run Approach -- A Forward-Looking Approach -- An Efficient Approach -- An Economic Approach, Not an Accounting Approach -- A Bottom-Up Approach -- The Working Units -- The Model Structure -- Applications of the Cost Model -- 5. User Guide -- Filling in the Assumptions -- Demand Assumptions -- Main Technical Assumptions -- Main Assumptions on Routing Factors -- Main Cost Allocation Assumptions -- Assumptions for the Mobile Network -- The Results Sheets -- The Results -- Printing Reports -- Testing the Sensitivity of the Results -- Managing the Model -- 6. Operations of the Cost Model -- Basic Principles -- Logic of the Intermediary Spreadsheets -- Capacities (Capa Sheet) -- Transmission Capacities "]
[{"$nulls":4},"(Capa ElTr Sheet) -- Infrastructure Capacities (Capa Infra Sheet) -- Costs -- The Mobile Network Calculations -- Capacity of the Mobile Network (CapaMob Sheet) -- Cost of the Mobile Network (Costs Mob Sheet) -- Total Costs of the Mobile Network (Tot Mob Sheet) -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1: Economic Cost Approach -- Appendix 2: Capital Cost Approach -- Appendix 3: Radio Concentrator Solutions -- Bibliography."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Tables -- 1.1 A Sample of Interconnection Rates -- 1.2 Overview of the Telecommunications Sectors in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Zambia -- 1.3 A Sample of Interconnection Rates Calculated by the Cost Model -- 2.1 Typology of Nodes and Links in a Telecommunications Network -- 3.1 Correlation Matrix between Retail Services and Elementary Services -- 3.2 Matrix of Inputs Needed to Provide Retail Services -- 3.3 Snapshot of Telecommunications Development in Africa in 1999 -- 3.4 Matrix of Transmission Links -- A3.1 Number of Subscribers Depending on the Traffic per Subscriber (in mE) -- Figures -- 1.1 Comparison between Interconnection Prices: Côte d'Ivoire -- 1.2 Comparison between Interconnection Prices: Cameroon -- 2.1 Cost Model Architecture -- 3.1 The Costs of a Multiproduct Firm: An Example for Five Products -- 3.2 Transition from Historical Accounting Costs to Economic Costs (LRIC) -- 3.3 Cost Structure -- 3.4 Entry Points of Interconnection Service -- 4.1 Cost Model Architecture -- 6.1 Cost Model Architecture -- A3.1 Example of the Architecture of an IRT (TRT-Lucent Network) -- Boxes -- 3.1 Different Definitions Selected for Cross-Subsidization -- 5.1 Erlang -- 6.1 Sizing of the SDH Network (example of RCU-LS routes)."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This work aims to offer telecom regulators and operators not only a decision support tool but also a stimulant to enhance an understanding of the logic of regulating a sector open to competition."]