Re: Some ideas about telecom company
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 10:08 am
Hi,
Not an easy question. As there are many things. As i'm a bad drawer i'll just describe it.
The easy way can be complex too. I suggest this for each telco :
A) 1 tab per city (or country if possible) with in each tab :
- coverage of each telco company for each tech on the left part of the screen and demand for each tech. (why deploy more 3G if users wants 4G now?) So it's near retail infos. And Quality of service.
- on the right part : sliders to invest more or less on each technology infrastructure (this is availability not quality) with % of population coverage (remember that the last 1% will cost more than the first 50% so use an exponential scale in your computation). So here a slider for DSL, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, Fiber, etc.
- a service cost associated to each service (you can use same system than for products in retail). Maybe with some checkboxes to add some features and bill more the users (firewall, AV, low latency, VoIP). (exemple users that want our VoIP should pay 1.25$ more per month)
- infos of quality of service (based on technology and maybe engineer skill level, yeah more training!). If i want to be sadistic here i'd point that a good DSL engineer can't help with 4G, it's different skills
B) another tab for external services like links to :
- advertising companies (like for existing internet companies)
- services link companies (like Vod). today users can pay an extra to their telco to access netflix (rather than to suscribe netflix directly). And how much the telco will charge the other companies to use their network. Exemple 0.1$ per Gb used. with an extra if users are in another countries. Here it's important to not fix things as a telco can work with 100 différent companies and charge different prices for each (or use a fix prices for all of them if easier to code). Another way is to fix a bandwidth allowed for the other companie (like peering) so if max is reach the other companie can't serve more users. So VoD companies and some others should have a tab to manage telco relation as well (maybe a price can be precalculated or it can be negociated like when we want to buy R&D from another companie)
Here it's a challenge to balance things as users and other companies pays
C) maybe a specifig tech or R&D integrated to increase quality of service (it's good to have a huge network, but improve backbone devices is mandatory too, train engineers, costumer service, etc). Develop new subtech, for exemple a better 4G antennas will reduce the cost to build 4G infrastructures by supporting more users per antenna, build cheaper antenna, increase range of each antenna etc Maybe add a reconvert option. In France buygues telecom stopped 2G services and used all their 2G antennas to cover 4G, so very few costs to deploy a big 4G network. Here R&D should need some scientis but money too (exemple improve density of 4G antenna cost 80 millions and 2 years (reduced by the number of scientists like other R&D but with extra funding too on a logarithme scale (1 can't pay 500 billions to discover cold fusion in a week LOL). Here maybe just propose a list of 50 or 100 projects to improve things on a looong subtab
D) telcom should have to pay a fee (or buy a licences as we can buy land for new city) to use some technologies like 3G or 4G. And only a number of this licences should exists (4 maybe). telco can't invest if there is too much competition. Sometimes it's a good way to buy a telco that have the licence that you want
remember that things must be based on technology progress and not on the date. Users can't want 4G if it doesn't exists (no company R&D it and begin to deploy it, you know tech can keep in boxes for years before be deployed)
that's my firsts ideas, we can discuss them (i have not the code not the schem of your datas)
Not an easy question. As there are many things. As i'm a bad drawer i'll just describe it.
The easy way can be complex too. I suggest this for each telco :
A) 1 tab per city (or country if possible) with in each tab :
- coverage of each telco company for each tech on the left part of the screen and demand for each tech. (why deploy more 3G if users wants 4G now?) So it's near retail infos. And Quality of service.
- on the right part : sliders to invest more or less on each technology infrastructure (this is availability not quality) with % of population coverage (remember that the last 1% will cost more than the first 50% so use an exponential scale in your computation). So here a slider for DSL, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, Fiber, etc.
- a service cost associated to each service (you can use same system than for products in retail). Maybe with some checkboxes to add some features and bill more the users (firewall, AV, low latency, VoIP). (exemple users that want our VoIP should pay 1.25$ more per month)
- infos of quality of service (based on technology and maybe engineer skill level, yeah more training!). If i want to be sadistic here i'd point that a good DSL engineer can't help with 4G, it's different skills
B) another tab for external services like links to :
- advertising companies (like for existing internet companies)
- services link companies (like Vod). today users can pay an extra to their telco to access netflix (rather than to suscribe netflix directly). And how much the telco will charge the other companies to use their network. Exemple 0.1$ per Gb used. with an extra if users are in another countries. Here it's important to not fix things as a telco can work with 100 différent companies and charge different prices for each (or use a fix prices for all of them if easier to code). Another way is to fix a bandwidth allowed for the other companie (like peering) so if max is reach the other companie can't serve more users. So VoD companies and some others should have a tab to manage telco relation as well (maybe a price can be precalculated or it can be negociated like when we want to buy R&D from another companie)
Here it's a challenge to balance things as users and other companies pays
C) maybe a specifig tech or R&D integrated to increase quality of service (it's good to have a huge network, but improve backbone devices is mandatory too, train engineers, costumer service, etc). Develop new subtech, for exemple a better 4G antennas will reduce the cost to build 4G infrastructures by supporting more users per antenna, build cheaper antenna, increase range of each antenna etc Maybe add a reconvert option. In France buygues telecom stopped 2G services and used all their 2G antennas to cover 4G, so very few costs to deploy a big 4G network. Here R&D should need some scientis but money too (exemple improve density of 4G antenna cost 80 millions and 2 years (reduced by the number of scientists like other R&D but with extra funding too on a logarithme scale (1 can't pay 500 billions to discover cold fusion in a week LOL). Here maybe just propose a list of 50 or 100 projects to improve things on a looong subtab
D) telcom should have to pay a fee (or buy a licences as we can buy land for new city) to use some technologies like 3G or 4G. And only a number of this licences should exists (4 maybe). telco can't invest if there is too much competition. Sometimes it's a good way to buy a telco that have the licence that you want
remember that things must be based on technology progress and not on the date. Users can't want 4G if it doesn't exists (no company R&D it and begin to deploy it, you know tech can keep in boxes for years before be deployed)
that's my firsts ideas, we can discuss them (i have not the code not the schem of your datas)