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Competitive Assessments for HAP Delivery of Mobile Services in Emerging Countries
In recent years, network deployment based on High Altitude Platforms (HAPs)
has gained momentum through several initiatives where air vehicles and
telecommunications payloads have been adapted and refined, resulting in more
efficient and less expensive platforms. In this paper, we study HAP as an
alternative or complementary fast-evolving technology to provide mobile
services in rural areas of emerging countries, where business models need to be
carefully tailored to the reality of their related markets. In these large
areas with low user density, mobile services uptake is likely to be slowed by a
service profitability which is in turn limited by a relatively low average
revenue per user. Through three architectures enabling different business roles
and using different terrestrial, HAP and satellite backhaul solutions, we
devise how to use in an efficient and profitable fashion these multi-purpose
aerial platforms, in complement to existing access and backhauling satellite or
terrestrial technologies