Municipalities as a Driver for Wireless Broadband Access

Authors:
Jan Ooteghem;Bart Lannoo;Koen Casier;Sofie Verbrugge;Emmeric Tanghe;Wout Joseph;Luc Martens;Didier Colle;Mario Pickavet;Ingrid Moerman;Piet Demeester
Affiliations:
Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050;Department of Information Technology, Ghent University --- IBBT, Ghent, Belgium 9050
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Municipalities can form a driving force behind the deployment of new telecom infrastructure. While a telecom operator focuses on direct (financial) profits, a municipality is mainly interested in the social benefits for its inhabitants. In this paper, we evaluate a wireless municipality network from both a technical and an economic point of view. WiFi and WiMAX are considered as the most suited technologies for this purpose. A detailed techno-economic study has been performed including forecasting of the user adoption, dimensioning of the wireless network and modelling the related costs and revenues. The trade-off between installing a high number of relatively cheap WiFi access points, and a smaller number of more expensive WiMAX base stations for delivering full coverage is investigated in several scenarios.