A model for calculating interconnection costs in telecommunications / / edited by ... [Paul Noumba Um]

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: x, 67 pages : illustrations ; ; 28 cm. + + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
• Disciplina: 384.6/4
• Soggetto topico: Telecommunication - Rates - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Mathematical models; Telecommunication - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Costs - Mathematical models
• Altri autori: Noumba UmPaul
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 (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. ; 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).
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A model for calculating interconnection costs in telecommunications
• ISBN: 1-280-08508-8; 9786610085088; 0-585-49516-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958163003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank e-Library.