TY - GEN
T1 - Should operators switch-off their legacy infrastructure or re-purpose it for M2M?
AU - Kulkarni, Parag
AU - Oviedo, Raul Martinez
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/8
Y1 - 2014/10/8
N2 - With the recent advances in cellular communications and new systems being deployed alongside existing ones, one wonders whether there still is a need for the legacy infrastructure, in particular the widely deployed 2G systems. Given the significant improvements in efficiency evident in the technology embodied in the 3G, 4G and beyond technologies, is the economics underlying the operation of the 2G infrastructure still viable? Would the operators be better off phasing out these legacy systems or could these continue to be the cash cows they have been all along these years, especially amidst the emerging breed of applications - the Machine to Machine (M2M) paradigm? This article examines the above issue quantitatively from an economic standpoint considering the UK market as an example and relies on data gathered by Office of Communications (OFCOM), the regulator in the UK. Findings from this study strongly suggest that re-purposing the legacy infrastructure for M2M services could pave the way to creating promising revenue streams for the operators.
AB - With the recent advances in cellular communications and new systems being deployed alongside existing ones, one wonders whether there still is a need for the legacy infrastructure, in particular the widely deployed 2G systems. Given the significant improvements in efficiency evident in the technology embodied in the 3G, 4G and beyond technologies, is the economics underlying the operation of the 2G infrastructure still viable? Would the operators be better off phasing out these legacy systems or could these continue to be the cash cows they have been all along these years, especially amidst the emerging breed of applications - the Machine to Machine (M2M) paradigm? This article examines the above issue quantitatively from an economic standpoint considering the UK market as an example and relies on data gathered by Office of Communications (OFCOM), the regulator in the UK. Findings from this study strongly suggest that re-purposing the legacy infrastructure for M2M services could pave the way to creating promising revenue streams for the operators.
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U2 - 10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918929
DO - 10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918929
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908892199
T3 - Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, WoWMoM 2014
BT - Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, WoWMoM 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 15th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2014
Y2 - 19 June 2014
ER -