Moving from cable to fibre networks: the economic implications on operating costs
"The opex benefits that fibre networks provide might be offset by the cost of running legacy networks in parallel to the newly deployed fibre networks."
Network support is the biggest area of spending that will be reduced in the short term when operators move from cable to fibre networks. Fibre deployment also offers important advantages in terms of energy use and real estate expenditure, though these gains are small and incremental.
Information included in this report
- An overview of the different components that contribute to opex and their evolution over time for operators that are decommissioning their cable networks and are deploying fibre networks
- Key considerations for cablecos and other telecoms operators that want to shift away from legacy networks and want to deploy fibre networks
- An understanding of the key drivers of operating costs associated with fibre networks
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