Kalender

Course overview, about home work assignements and examination Lecture: Introdution to telecom markets, actors and roles 

lecturer: Jan Markendahl

Slides are here:
course overview 
Intro to actors and roles
excercises

Intro to telecom markets:
From monopoly to oligopoly, de-regulation, liberalization

Lecturer: Guest Researcher Bengt G Mölleryd at PTS

Slides: Intro to telecom markets

1. Telecom markets from the end-user perspective (JanM)
slides

2.Guest lecture by Bengt Oberger:
Telecom in Africa: any specifics to consider?  slides

Bengt Oberger is an economist and has worked for 35 years with Swedish Government Development Cooperation with countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is now retired and is engaged in the Wikipedia movement, foremost as a member of the board of Wikimedia Sweden and as an contributor to the Swedish language Wikipedia and to the Wikimedia Commons media database (User:Boberger/Användare:Boberger).

Bengt Oberger has primarily worked as a government officer with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), with matters to do with development of small businesses and business environment and in later years also with miscellaneous Information and Commucations Technology practical and policy issues in a few  developing countries.

More on actors and roles, Q&A session for Home work 1
slides

Telecom and spectrum regulation
Role of the regulator and examples of regulated markets  slides

Operator Strategies and Example of market entry Slides

Each student will present the results of the country study

Part 2 of the IK2514 course, Mobile Operator Business, 
starts with this lecture on Challenges for Mobile Operators.

Both business related and network/technology related challenges will be disucssed. slides

For HW2 information see separate area to the right

slides

Financial asepcts for operators:
Investment and risk slides Financial toolbox slides

Info about the rest of the course + Intro to the MOB game slides

About network sharing  Slides from ITS India 2012 conf 
Guest lecture by Greger Blennerud on mobile broadband services and business slides

Time to prepare HW2 

Ireland Australia France

Netherlands Germany Denmark

Norway Greece Finland Portugal

Italy Estonia UK

System architetcure of mobile communication systems

Slides

Meet in the reception of Tele2 (Borgarfjordsgatan 16, Kista)
at 09.55 and ask for the host Björn Lindberg

Introduction to dimensioning of mobile broadband networks and to HW3

- User demand

- Radio Access Technologies

- Cost structure

- Dimensioning procedure

- About HW3

Please find the two network dimensioning problems A adn B below.
Please prepare in groups in order to present solutions and lead discussions on December 3

HW3 review groups 1 and 2
Network dimensioning problem A - Network sharing  here is solution  

HW3 review groups 3 and 4
Network dimensioning problem B - Wireless access for office workers  here is solution

Example of an old exam is here: exam 2011  solution is here

Here are the slides

Voice in GSM (note! updated version)

3G voice

solutions of the exam are available here