Originally Posted by wavejockglw:
“Probably not that much as the equipment and sites etc are all common costs.
€1 per GB is the lowest cost I have seen in any industry documents with €2-3 per GB more common figures.
Happy to share my source in response to the polite request above and per advice 'ignore' those who are hostile in threads.
Those costs come from a respected network equipment maker (Nokia Siemens Networks) who provide infrastructure to many mobile networks worldwide. Nokia Siemens are telecoms experts who have defined and deployed mobile technology standards for many years so their white papers are respected and are reference materials for not only industry but government and international organisations. The information in the one below was published in 2010 before the rollout of 4G and does not take account of networks sharing costs but it provides some interesting statistics about the capacity and costs of the technology. Well worth reading if you are interested in learning more. White Papers are professional documents written by experts and are highly valued by academics to increase understanding. They are often referenced in academic assignments and when relevant are highly rated forms of factual corroboration.
The Nokia Siemens Networks White Paper "Mobile Broadband with HSPA and LTE - capacity and cost aspects' is available as a PDF download from a link on the following webpage:
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/e...d-cost-aspects
More information about 'White Papers' can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper”
“Probably not that much as the equipment and sites etc are all common costs.
€1 per GB is the lowest cost I have seen in any industry documents with €2-3 per GB more common figures.
Happy to share my source in response to the polite request above and per advice 'ignore' those who are hostile in threads.
Those costs come from a respected network equipment maker (Nokia Siemens Networks) who provide infrastructure to many mobile networks worldwide. Nokia Siemens are telecoms experts who have defined and deployed mobile technology standards for many years so their white papers are respected and are reference materials for not only industry but government and international organisations. The information in the one below was published in 2010 before the rollout of 4G and does not take account of networks sharing costs but it provides some interesting statistics about the capacity and costs of the technology. Well worth reading if you are interested in learning more. White Papers are professional documents written by experts and are highly valued by academics to increase understanding. They are often referenced in academic assignments and when relevant are highly rated forms of factual corroboration.
The Nokia Siemens Networks White Paper "Mobile Broadband with HSPA and LTE - capacity and cost aspects' is available as a PDF download from a link on the following webpage:
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/e...d-cost-aspects
More information about 'White Papers' can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper”
That paper says:
Quote:
“The cost of delivering a gigabyte of
data per subscriber can be less than
1 EUR if total data use is high enough.
LTE networks can lower the cost per
bit, especially when HSPA spectrum
is fully utilized, because adding LTE
capability to existing sites costs much
less than adding new HSPA sites. ”
“The cost of delivering a gigabyte of
data per subscriber can be less than
1 EUR if total data use is high enough.
LTE networks can lower the cost per
bit, especially when HSPA spectrum
is fully utilized, because adding LTE
capability to existing sites costs much
less than adding new HSPA sites. ”
That's capex and opex, remember Three share 3G sites and a lot of the infrastructure costs with EE as well, which gives them a significant cost saving, that paper doesn't take into account shared RAN or sites. So that's 80p excluding the infrastructure share, which should be taken into account.
Three already offer 15 gigs for around £16 in mobile broadband.
