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52263 Telecommunication Economics
Danish title: Telekommunikationsøkonomi
Language: English Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: English

Prerequisite: 52251
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Scope and form: Lectures and group work.
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13-scale)
Participant limitation: max. 24

Contact person: Morten Falch, Building 371, Tel. +45 4525 5177, email falch@cti.dtu.dk, http://www.cti.dtu.dk/people/people.view.php?id=10010

Department: Department of Telecommunication
Aim: All working with telecommunications need to have an overwiev of the economics of a telecommunications network. How much will provision of a certain telecommunication service cost, and what are the key cost components within the network? How much should the consumer be charged for a new service?
On this course, the students will learn how to calculate cost based tariffs for telecommunication services.
Contents: The course deals with theoretic and practical problems related to cost analysis of production of telecommunication services such as Mobile communication, Internet access and IP telephony. The course will present the basic cost elements in a telecommunications network, and introduce different approaches for activity based cost accounting. Techno-economic concepts such as marginal- and average costs are introduced and applied. The course will also introduce different principles for tariffing and their impact on consumer demand.