Affordable Wireless Broadband Access (AWBA)

Author/s: Jan Markendahl, Östen Mäkitalo, Jan Werding, Jens Zander

Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Financier/s: VINNOVA, Telia

Information:

This tele-economic research project intends to extend the concepts developed in the EU funded Ambient Networks project and the Vinnova project Novel Access Provisioning. We believe that wireless broad band for public Internet access will be widely adopted if it is perceived as ´affordable´. The amount of data is 100 1000 times larger compared to voice services but customers will not pay 100-1000 times more. In the proposed research project we will identify and analyze solutions where low cost local networks are integrated in traditional cellular network in order to offload traffic in known and fixed locations and hence decrease the need for deploymentof more costly types of networks. The proposed project consists of three work packages:

• Design and analysis of technical solutions for radio access and ´roaming´
• Design and analysis of business support solutions for network cooperation
• Feasibility analysis including Cost Capacity Pricing analysis