After the deregulation of the telecommunications’ market, municipalities and utility-based firms which own physical resources are capable of entering in this market. This paper focuses on the broadband business field and provides a model for analyzing the new perspectives for new investors in...

After the deregulation of the telecommunications market, municipalities and utility-based firms which own physical resources are capable of entering in this market. This study focuses on the broadband business field and provides a model for analyzing the new perspectives for new investors in the...

After the liberalization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) markets many potential providers have appeared. Thus, business complexity, for ICT decision makers, has increased. In this paper we focus on the problem of selecting the optimal business evolution path for ICT, focusing...

In this paper, we estimate the overall value of an Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure project, which supports a number of future investment opportunities. We treat these opportunities as Real Options (RO) and assume that there is competition threat that can influence...

Traditional investment analysis approaches such as discounted cash flow and net present value do not capture the flexibility in the investment evaluation. In this paper, Real Options (ROs) are used to capture the value of flexibility in the evaluation of optical fibre investments along a...

This paper provides a methodology for finding the optimum deployment strategy for ICT business activities in the context of initial infrastructure projects, which support a number of future investment opportunities. It treats these opportunities as real options (ROs) and assumes that there is a...