The disposal of technical buildings offers new revenue opportunities for operators

The widespread adoption of fibre technology has enabled telecoms operators to advance their plans for decommissioning copper networks. The successful shutdown of copper networks comes with enormous potential economic benefits. These stem from eliminating the need to operate parallel networks and from the inherent efficiencies of fibre.

Fibre’s technical properties allow data to travel many times farther than in copper networks; they also mean that less active equipment and physical space is required. Operators that migrate from copper to fibre can therefore free up a number of exchange facilities and unlock a portfolio of real-estate that is no longer needed for network service. Analysys Mason’s Optimising the use of real estate: opportunities and challenges for operators explores the economic advantages of efficient real-estate utilisation in more detail.