Municipalities as a Driver for Wireless Broadband Access |
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| Authors: | Jan Van Ooteghem Bart Lannoo Koen Casier Sofie Verbrugge Emmeric Tanghe Wout Joseph Luc Martens Didier Colle Mario Pickavet Ingrid Moerman Piet Demeester |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Information Technology, Ghent University – IBBT, Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201, 9050 Ghent, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Municipalities can form a driving force behind the deployment of new telecom infrastructure. While a telecom operator focuses on direct (financial) profits, a municipality is mainly interested in the social benefits for its inhabitants. In this paper, we evaluate a wireless municipality network from both a technical and an economic point of view. WiFi and WiMAX are considered as the most suited technologies for this purpose. A detailed techno-economic study has been performed including forecasting of the user adoption, dimensioning of the wireless network and modelling the related costs and revenues. The trade-off between installing a high number of relatively cheap WiFi access points, and a smaller number of more expensive WiMAX base stations for delivering full coverage is investigated in several scenarios. |
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| Keywords: | Wireless access networks Broadband Municipality networks Techno-economic analysis Business case |
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