What Constitutes a Low Total Cost of Ownership Network Solution?
2008-08-26 Mobile network planning and design often involve striking a balance among cost, coverage, capacity, and quality. The next-generation network aims to be all-IP based to ease the introduction of rich applications combining voice, video and data services plus interworking with other fixed and wireless networks. ABI Research sees various key market drivers such as increasing voice and data traffic, expansion for rural reach, mobile technology evolutions, new spectrum allocations and so forth incurring additional cost for the network. It’s up to the operators to contain the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) in order to maintain high revenue-to-cost ratio.
