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Efficient deployment of large mobile networks

Indian case study

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The telecommunications industry has reached a phase of evolution where mobile communication networks are deployed in the growth market countries. New deployments are performed on an unforeseen scale involving installation of hundreds of base stations a day. The sheer volume of deployments in countries with less mature public infrastructure creates new operational challenges. One large issue at the start of the study was lengthy telecommunication implementation lead time (TILT). The cost of deployment is directly proportional to TILT. In this paper, the constraints of these large deployments were searched, listed and analyzed using the grounded analysis of a case study in India.

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Pöllänen, O., Bhebhe, L. Efficient deployment of large mobile networks. Netnomics 12, 115–132 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11066-011-9062-9

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