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Analysis of WIMAX/BWA Licensing in India: A real option approach
Indian Internet and broadband market has experienced very slow growth and limited penetration till now. The introduction of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is expected to aid in increasing the penetration of internet and broadband in India. The report sheds light on the guidelines and procedure used in 4G/BWA spectrum auction and presents comparative analysis of the competing technologies, providing the information about suitability of each technology available. Recently held 4G/ BWA spectrum auction saw enthusiastic participation by the industry and even saw some new entrants in Indian broadband market. Government benefited by Rs, 385bn that it earned as revenue from the auction of the spectrum and projected it as successful auction. However, the question remains if the auctions were efficient and whether they led to creation of value or will it prove to be burden to the telecom operators and will depress their balance sheet for years to come. The report uses both traditional valuation methods such as Discounted Cash Flow as well as Real Option approach to answer such questions. Using DCF analysis, the broadband subscribers have been forecasted to grow from present 13.77mn to 544mn by the end of 2025. The wireless subscribers are forecasted to be 70% of the total broadband subscribers after 5 years of roll out as it will be difficult to replace all wireline subscribers with wireless subscribers in India due to the high cost of wireless broadband and new technology. WiMAX is expected to increase its presence with time and reach 90mn subscribers from meager 0.35mn subscribers by 2025. Using industry wide cost of capital as 12.05%, the Net Present Value has been found Rs 221bn aggregate with an IRR of 17.1%. Using Real option approach, the value of license has been calculated as Rs 437bn which is 13.5% more than the spectrum fees paid by the operators. This mismatch, between the auction value and the correct value that should have been discovered by supply-demand dynamics, can be due to limited participants in BWA spectrum auctions and companies such as TATA and Reliance opting out of the auction process midway as well as uncertainty about acceptance of new technology with Indian subscribers.WiMAX, broadband, 3G spectrum, 4G,broadband wireless access, valuation, licensing, real option
Factors shaping the evolution of electronic documentation systems
The main goal is to prepare the space station technical and managerial structure for likely changes in the creation, capture, transfer, and utilization of knowledge. By anticipating advances, the design of Space Station Project (SSP) information systems can be tailored to facilitate a progression of increasingly sophisticated strategies as the space station evolves. Future generations of advanced information systems will use increases in power to deliver environmentally meaningful, contextually targeted, interconnected data (knowledge). The concept of a Knowledge Base Management System is emerging when the problem is focused on how information systems can perform such a conversion of raw data. Such a system would include traditional management functions for large space databases. Added artificial intelligence features might encompass co-existing knowledge representation schemes; effective control structures for deductive, plausible, and inductive reasoning; means for knowledge acquisition, refinement, and validation; explanation facilities; and dynamic human intervention. The major areas covered include: alternative knowledge representation approaches; advanced user interface capabilities; computer-supported cooperative work; the evolution of information system hardware; standardization, compatibility, and connectivity; and organizational impacts of information intensive environments
Facilities Governance Report: Board of Regents, September 12-13, 2018
Facilities Governance Report, which is required by the Regent Policy Manual, replaces the previous governance reports on energy conservation, fire and environmental safety, and deferred maintenance. This combined, more comprehensive report provides a means to discuss, in total, Regent facilities. Along with its human resources and its intellectual, financial and equipment assets, facilities are one of the primary resources of an educational institution
Optimal Public Infrastructure: Some Guideposts to Ensure we don’t Overspend
It’s time to consider a more economically efficient model for financing roads, bridges and other public infrastructure. It’s true that Canada has become one of the biggest spenders on infrastructure among OECD countries, at four per cent of GDP, but using GDP to measure the share the government should spend on infrastructure is an anachronistic and arbitrary measure. We all know it is important that Canada keep pace with maintaining and building the necessary infrastructure to maximise our productive capacity and economic prosperity. But how do we know if we are on the right track? How much investment is enough, and what is the optimal level of public investment in infrastructure? This paper proposes a framework for evaluating current and future levels of financing for public infrastructure. Rather than relying on arbitrary comparisons with Canadas post war ‘golden age’ of infrastructure investment (an all too common standby in political circles), we propose a standard that is based in economic efficiency and which aims to maximise the public benefits associated with infrastructure investment. We also take a historical look public capital spending in Canada, as well as the trend toward privatization of public infrastructure and core services that began some 30 years ago after the Mulroney government was elected. This trend has seen many core services and assets that were once publicly run transition to outright privatization. It is interesting to note that the most heavily privatized sectors (utilities and communications) are also the sectors most often spared from the label of ‘inadequate’, a label that befalls so much of Canada’s public infrastructure. When infrastructure is financed through taxation, there is a tendency for spending to be discouraged to ease the burden on taxpayers; however, this inevitably leads to infrastructure maintenance and construction being deferred, with a significant deficit inevitably built up. A user-pay model would work to eliminate political influence, create revenue for infrastructure renewal, and facilitate an optimal allocation of infrastructure resources. All of this further helps maximise the benefits derived from public infrastructure. This model of infrastructure finance and provision could be further advanced and reinforced through the creation of provincial and federal bodies whose mandate would be to actively evaluate infrastructure investments in their respective jurisdictions, prioritizing funding for the most meritorious projects, and those offering the highest public return on investment. When projects are funded through taxation and access is not priced, there is often little or no incentive for individuals to make efficient use of them. The lack of direct accountability means individuals fail to use infrastructure judiciously and sparingly to preserve the life of public assets or prevent unnecessary congestion. Moreover, the lack of a clear sense of cost means governments do not know the true value that the public places on one type of infrastructure over another. Thus, government budgeting for such projects remains inefficient and skewed. The best level and mix of public infrastructure can only be determined when government and private providers can reliably establish user demands in a priced (efficient) system. The current model of funding public infrastructure deprives users of infrastructure as well as government planners from vital information they need to make informed and efficient decisions. Both remain unclear on value for money, and costaccountability, but are bound by an innate aversion to increased tax-financing. Governments, fully cognizant of both consumer attitudes and the need to retain vote-getting power, thus swing between funding necessary infrastructure and allowing infrastructure deficits to grow. This paper advocates for a more efficient, accountable system with greater dependence on user-pay models and reinforced by and active arm’s length government agency designed to advance merit based project selection, and maximise public benefit
The usage of MIS applications to raise the efficiency and performance of the telecommunications services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
PhD ThesisThere are different kinds of requirements on an information system. Of particular concern
to this study are non-functional requirements (NFRs). These are aspects of a system.
independent of any technical capabilities that it may have, which form a series of
constraints on how a system will actually perform, and of which an organisation must
take account in order to achieve success.
This thesis studies non-functional requirements with particular reference to those that
support an organisation in the process of structural change. Particular attention is paid to
those non-functional requirements that will be constraints that hinder the performance and
efficiency of any organisation if they are not fully understood and incorporated into the
new information system. The way in which such non-functional requirements should be
handled is illustrated by an extensive case study of the main provider of
telecommunications services in Saudi Arabia.
The researcher first took an interest in the Saudi telecommunications industry as a result
of the recent moves to transform the country's telecommunications service from the
traditional structure to a new system by the introduction of privatisation. The new
modified system is called the Saudi Telecom Company (STC), though it is at present still
under the effective control of the Saudi Ministry of Post, Telephone and Telegraph
(MoPTT), the previous telecommunications service provider. The Saudi
telecommunications service has been a monopoly managed through traditional public
management systems, typically influenced by a dominant bureaucracy. The researcher's
concern has been to study and describe the current management, structure, and operations
(in particular the information systems) of the MoPTT in order to identifY key issues and
potential areas for development which will help the MoPTT, as the STC, to offer a quality
telecommunications service in the new competitive market.
The researcher sets the telecommunications industry in Saudi Arabia in its national
context by providing the political, cultural and economic background to the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia. This is of particular importance in view of the significance discovered by
his study of non-technical environmental factors in the performance of the
telecommunications service in the country.
Using a combination of the qualitative and quantitative research approaches, the
researcher examined the literature relevant to his topic and undertook a fieldtrip to Saudi
Arabia, when he conferred extensively with MoPTI management and staff, observed
MoPTI structures and operations, and consulted other experts in telecommunications.
Reflection on the literature along with extensive fieldtrip consultation and observation
reveal that a full account of the operations and potential of the Saudi telecommunications
system cannot be provided by a consideration of its technical functions and processes
alone. Due recognition must be given to the peculiarly Saudi setting of the service, and in
particular attention must be paid to non-functional aspects, such requirements and
constraints related to the environment in which the system has to operate.
Culturally related non-functional requirements are of particular interest, and the case of
Internet access in Saudi Arabia is examined, since it provides an especially good example
of a non-functional requirement which is undergoing change, while still acting as a
constraint on telecommunications usage. The case is related to a new conception of
Saudisation, whereby Saudi personnel are no longer simply taking over and imitating
western skills, but where they are providing Saudi solutions to Saudi questions.
Using information gathered largely during his fieldtrip, the researcher provides a
comprehensive description and discussion of the current MoPTT business areas,
organisational structures, and information systems. Not only the commercial and
technical features of these operations are examined, but also the extent to which they
succeed in fulfilling or operating within the non-functional requirements and constraints,
especially those of particularly Saudi origin, imposed upon them. Where appropriate,
potential new approaches and directions for the MoPTI in relation to handling issues are
indicated.
Employing techniques developed by Dr. Michael Porter of Harvard University, an
analysis has been provided of the of the MoPTI's enterprise strategy, since it is this
which ultimately drives all the operations of the MoPTI, and upon which the MoPTI's
telecommunications service will depend for commercial success in the new postprivatisation
market. Based upon this analysis, the researcher has put forward explicit
operational, managerial, and business proposals which should allow the MoPTT to seize the opportunities offered by privatisation, and to achieve success in both the domestic and
the international telecommunications market.
The researcher has felt able to identifY a number of specific factors within the MoPTr
which might receive particular attention for revision and improvement, as they impact on
all MoPTT operations and are of critical importance for its commercial success. These
areas are strategic planning, marketing, training, customer relations, an integrated
information system, and workforce management.
As a result of his investigation into the operations of the MoPTT the researcher has been
able to identify a new approach to the future of telecommunications in Saudi Arabia. He
has designed an information architecture within which the MoPTT information systems
might operate, and which takes full account of the role of non-functional aspects in the
degree of success of such a complex operation. He offers a comprehensive description of
the basis, operational details, and advantages of the implementation of this architecture
for the MoPTT's information system operations.
The particular benefits of Saudisation are stressed. It became clear during the research
that the concept of Saudisation simply as the taking over and imitation of tasks previously
carried out by non-Saudis (because they had the training and experience) was now
inadequate. Saudisation has now to be understood as a cultural as well as a technical or
business transformation, a dynamic concept relating both to enduring Saudi cultural
values and to changing social attitudes and practices.
Indeed this concept of Saudisation would repay further investigation as a suitable topic
for future academic research, and the researcher makes this recommendation. He does so
principally because the traditional understanding of the concept now seems inadequate
and therefore a factor likely to inlnbit the truly indigenous development industry and
services within Saudi ArabiaThe Government of Saudi Arabia:
King AbdulAziz University
Management. A continuing bibliography for NASA managers, with indexes
This bibliography lists 594 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in 1983
Management as a system: creating value
Boston University School of Management publication from the 1990s about the MBA programs at BU, aimed at prospective MBA students
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