Kalender

Slides from today

Course overview Intro to markets and actors

Group exercises on actors and market size; comments on on business logic

Slides for today Intro to telecom markets

Slides from lectures:
The user perspective 
More on markets and actors + about HW1

Guidelines, deadlines and hints for reports, review and presenation of HW1: 
See slides above

Review groups for HW1:
Group A: Belarus, Iran, Ukraine, Turkey
Group B: Argentina, Brazil Colombia, Mexico
Group C: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan
Group D: Australia, France,  Germany, UK
Group E: Estonia, Denmark Finland, Norway
Group F: Austria, Greece, Ireland, Portugal

Names and e-mail adresses in the HW1 area

Slides for the lecture WIDE lectrure Nov 8 Telcom regulation and spectrum Bengt G Mölleryd.pdf

Network sharing in Sweden and India

The telecom market in Thailand

IMP 2013 Conference paper about network sharing

We will organize the oral presentation session so that each review group present according to this schedule:

- 3-4 presentations, max 5 min each (total 15-20 min)

- summary of main review points per country (5 min)

- comment and questions from other students and teacher (5-10 min)

This will mean 30 - 35 min per reviewgroup.
We can have short breaks between each group and one longer (coffe) break around 10.00

In order to save time at the oral presentation I ask you to do like this:
Each review group prepares one power point file with the country presentations and the main review comments in summary and send to me November 13 at 16:00 latest. 

Jan Markendahl: Operator Challenges and Intro to HW2 slides

Greger Blennerud: Mobile Broadband Outlook slides

Slides for the first lecture Investment and risk

Slides for the second lecture Financial toolbox

Operator Strategy and Market entry

 Business Models slides by Per Andersson are here

For this lecture students are required to some preparation work in the review groups for HW2. 

Preparatory assignment: 
Read the business model articles and 
Think about how you can relate the main ideas of the articles to telecom operators’ business: 
What are the main implications for operators of the business model ideas presented in the two articles?

Send the 2 slides per review group to Jan November 25, 16:00 latest

Group assignments and what to read are found here

Papers to read are found here:
Casadeus et al 2010  Teece 2010

Chesbrough 2007 Johnsson et al 2008 Magretta 2002

Osterwalder 2005 Mason and Spring 2011 

• Some fundamental problems in infrastructure provisioning
• Wireless Network design fundamentals
• Wireless Infrastructure & Spectrum cost models
• Wireless Broadband dimensioning & deployment models

Jens Zander slides

Slides

Slides by Claes Beckman

1. Configuration of Radio base stations

• Macro and Microcell deployment
• Small cell deployment
• Indoor deployment, DAS vs Macrocells vs Smallcells
• Sectors, cell split
• GSM and WCDMA carriers, LTE

2) Introduction to dimensioning of voice services

• RT vs NRT services
• Blocking
• Erlang Formula
• First exercise

10-11; Study visit at Ericsson Studio, Ericssons base station equipment and other solutions

Adress: Grönlandsgången 4, Kista, Stockholm
http://www.ericsson.com/se/thecompany/corporate_governance/meetings_with_the_shareholders/agm2013/ericsson_studio

11-12; Jan Markendahl:
1. Introduction to MOB game, assignment of preparation task slides
(see also MOB game page to the left)

2. Q&A and more about HW3 and network dimensioning 

13-14; Martin Kristensson (Nokia NSN): NSN vision 2020 and what European operators are doing today

14-15; Jan Markendahl: More About HW3 and network dimensioning  

Slides by Claes: Voice in GSM   3G Voice

More on network dimensioning

• Dimensiong of voice vs data services
• More on Blocking and Erlang 
• Exercises, old exam problems 

Presentation time slots for the groups December 17

08:00-09:00, Group J: Argentina, Australia, Greece, Norway

09:00-10:00 Group L: Brazil, Estonia, Kenya

10:00-11:00, Group I: Belarus, Colombia, Denmark, Portugal

11:00-12:00, Group K: France, Ireland, Sudan, Turkey

13:00-14:00, Group M: Austria, Egypt, Mexico, Ukraine  (In room Motala in Electrum)

Presentation time slots for the groups December 17

10:00-11:00, Group I: Belarus, Colombia, Denmark, Portugal

11:00-12:00, Group K: France, Ireland, Sudan, Turkey

13:00-14:00, Group M: Austria, Egypt, Mexico, Ukraine  (In room Motala in Electrum)

08:00-09:00, Group J: Argentina, Australia, Greece, Norway

09:00-10:00 Group L: Brazil, Estonia, Kenya

Old exam 1 -> Solutions
Old exam 2 -> Solutions

Network dimensioning problem A: Network sharing ->Solution

Network dimensioning problem B: Wireless Office  -> Solution