Mobile networks

Competition, mergers and site costs: lessons learned from the iterated cost model

28/06/2016
Analysis
Author(s): Sam Wood
Telecommunications Spectrum management

Recently we’ve been working on expanding the capability of one of our mobile network models – the iterated cost (or bootstrap) model. In a nutshell, this model treats buyers and sellers of mobile data as rational economic agents. When the cost of supplying data falls, consumers buy more of it. Similarly, operators invest in additional[…]

Unintended mobile roaming

30/07/2013
Project
Client: Asia Pacific regulator
Author(s): Selçuk Kırtay, Val Jervis
Spectrum management Radio engineering

The study identified key mechanisms resulting in unintended roaming of mobile devices to nearby neighbouring country cellular networks and proposed potential solutions in-line with international practices based on benchmarking.  These solutions included potential mitigation measures as well as the outline of possible approaches to address poor signal coverage at coastal areas and within buildings, especially high[…]