Van der Wee, Marlies

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Value Networks and Quantitative SocialCost-Benefit Analysis in TelecommunicationsAccess NetworksMarlies Van der WeeDepartment of Information Technology, Ghent University, IBBTSupervisor(s): Mario Pickavet, Sofie VerbruggeTelecommunications is a domain that is characterized by a constant and rapid evolution. Theavailable bandwidth keeps on increasing, the amount and quality of the offered services grows al-most continuously. In the past, the telecommunication (telephone) networks in Europe were oftenowned by one (national and public) telecommunications operator: the incumbent (e.g. Belgacomin Belgium and KPN in the Netherlands). However, these actors don’t seem to take the initiativefor deploying future-proof fixed or wireless networks. Therefore, other (non-telecom related) ac-tors, like municipalities or other utility networks are starting to invest in the deployment of suchnetworks. Several successful deployed networks can be found in existing literature, for both wiredand wireless cases.When thinking about investing in new networks, it is important to have a good estimation of thecosts for deploying end exploiting such a network, as well as what revenues these activities willbring along. Apart from the direct (monetary) revenues, the availability of a fast and reliable con-nection also entails a lot of other advantages, like the socio-economic impact on the developmentof the region. The significance of incorporating these indirect benefits is especially importantfor public actors such as municipalities or governments, who don’t gain much direct monetaryincomes.The goal of this research is to conduct a Social Cost-Benefit Analysis (SCBA) in the domainof telecommunication networks that compares the cost for each individual actor to its revenues,taking into account the indirect benefits. This allows to evaluate if it would be profitable for bothprivate and public actors to (actively or passively) participate in the deployment and exploitationof new access networks in Europe. This SCBA is a full techno-economic evaluation, that includesall direct and indirect costs and revenues for the deployment of a wired or wireless network, aswell as allocation methods so that an evaluation of costs versus revenues can be done for eachparticipating actor.—————————————————–This research was partially carried out in the framework of the projects TERRAIN, OASE and NGInfraproject: What are the Public Benefits of Open Access? Evaluating the Social Cost and Benefits of MunicipalFibre Networks. The IBBT TERRAIN project is co-funded by IBBT, IWT and Acreo AB, Alcatel-Lucent,Comsof, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Digipolis, FTTH Council Europe, Geosparc, Stad Gent, TMVW,TE Connectivity, UNET and WCS Benelux BV. The OASE project has received funding from the EuropeanUnion’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n°249025. The NGInfraproject was supported by the Next Generation Infrastructures (http://www.nginfra.nl/).

Value networks and quantitative social cost-benefit analysis in telecommunications access networks

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