Analysys Mason is a leading provider of cost modelling expertise in fixed telecoms access networks. Our work in over 30 countries covers a variety of network architectures and associated issues. Access technologies considered include:
- copper PSTN and xDSL
- FTTH PON
- FTTC/VDSL
- HFC
- wireless (including WiMax)
- satellite.
Major issues addressed through our modelling approach include assessing the impact of:
- different access network architectures
- the use of different technologies in different geographies
- the impact of geography on cost of provision
- the impact of legacy network architectures on new-build deployment.
Relevant experience
Example projects include:
- Costing of FTTC for the Netherlands regulator, OPTA. For a range of scenarios, we calculated the incremental costs and revenues faced by a provider using FTTC/VDSL or a wholesale bitstream product. We concluded that using FTTC/VDSL is not an economically viable alternative to ADSL based on LLU, except under very optimistic assumptions
- For an Asia-Pacific regulator, we are building a detailed bottom-up cost model of a copper loop access network
- For a Western European incumbent, investigation of the impact of various FTTx deployment scenarios on its business case and those of alternative operators
- For the IDA in Singapore, we built a FTTH cost model regarding possible deployment of a national broadband NGN
- For a new entrant in a Western European country we built a model of the costing of deployment of an FTTC/VDSL network
- For the ACCC, a study to evaluate the delivery of broadband services using several technologies, including FTTC, FTTB, WiMAX and HSDPA
- For a cable operator, a project to understand the relative costs of FWA, Cable Modem, ADSL and VDSL
- For a major network operator, we helped formulate a view of its migration options to NGN, and a financial overview of these options
- For a regional government, advice on all stages of its open-access NGN initiative, from conception to procurement and delivery
- For a incumbent fixed network operator we compared the relative merits of DSL and cable modem.
Whilst many of these models use Microsoft Excel, our in-house telecoms business planning tool, STEM, allows users to efficiently range from the rapid modelling of businesses at a high level, to complex network costing.
