Resumo
The European Union has recently launched an ambitious plan to mitigate drastically, by 2025, the number of households lacking access to a 100 Mbps broadband connection through the subsidisation of the deployment of network infrastructure in rural areas. Decision makers such as governments and regulatory authorities therefore have to choose, among a pool of alternatives, a technology capable of delivering the required throughput on a large scale, based on a trade-off between the infrastructure costs and the subscribers' perceived utility for each alternative. Such a trade-off is not simple, since there is no straightforward manner to rank the subscribers' perceived utility against the network infrastructure cost. In this article, we propose a methodology based on real options, which outputs the value of each technology using multi-attribute value theory as an input, alongside the project's risk and its costs.
Idioma original | English |
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Páginas (de-até) | 184-210 |
Número de páginas | 27 |
Revista | International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making |
Volume | 8 |
Número de emissão | 2 |
DOIs | |
Estado da publicação | Publicado - 2019 |