Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- About the Authors -- 1. Introduction -- Preliminary Results Provided by the Cost Model -- The Limits of the Model -- 2. Guidebook Overview -- Cost Modeling Principles -- User Guide -- The Model -- 3. Cost Modeling Principles -- Regulation of Interconnection -- Essential Facilities -- Cost Determination Methodologies -- Economic Criteria for Assessing Costs -- The LRIC Concept -- Advantages and Drawbacks of LRIC -- Definition of Interconnection Services -- Definition of the Increment -- Application to African Telecommunications Networks -- The Average Size of an African Telecommunications Network -- Nodes and Links -- Transit -- 4. Modeling Principles -- The Modeling Principles -- A Long-Run Approach -- A Forward-Looking Approach -- An Efficient Approach -- An Economic Approach, Not an Accounting Approach -- A Bottom-Up Approach -- The Working Units -- The Model Structure -- Applications of the Cost Model -- 5. User Guide -- Filling in the Assumptions -- Demand Assumptions -- Main Technical Assumptions -- Main Assumptions on Routing Factors -- Main Cost Allocation Assumptions -- Assumptions for the Mobile Network -- The Results Sheets -- The Results -- Printing Reports -- Testing the Sensitivity of the Results -- Managing the Model -- 6. Operations of the Cost Model -- Basic Principles -- Logic of the Intermediary Spreadsheets -- Capacities (Capa Sheet) -- Transmission Capacities (Capa ElTr Sheet) -- Infrastructure Capacities (Capa Infra Sheet) -- Costs -- The Mobile Network Calculations -- Capacity of the Mobile Network (CapaMob Sheet) -- Cost of the Mobile Network (Costs Mob Sheet) -- Total Costs of the Mobile Network (Tot Mob Sheet) -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1: Economic Cost Approach -- Appendix 2: Capital Cost Approach -- Appendix 3: Radio Concentrator Solutions -- Bibliography.