WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 231 / 356
the signature of a satellitaire subscription doesn't involve excessive costs of installation
(typically similar to those of an ADSL connection), but it asks for a duration of the contract
that can be also of many years. Position of the cables in fiber optics instead, can ask for a
very high cost, according to the distance of the residence (typically it should be comparable
with that of a wireless installation).
In conclusion therefore, for an irregular consumer, that surf a little bit in internet and that
effects few traffic, the most economic solution is the ADSL connection, that however has a
limited territorial coverage (few houses in Africa have the fixed line). Instead, for a consumer
that doesn't appreciate limitations in the monthly maximum traffic (cap), the most economic
solution seems the satellite, that however offers lower speed connection. The wireless
solution is suitable instead, for who needs to move himself, is not reached by the ADSL,
wants a higher speed of connection in comparison to the satellite, or simply wants to share
his own connection with other people. Fiber optics instead, is oriented for now, almost
exclusively to the great enterprises that intend to expand their business to the foreign
countries (typically out of Africa) and to the communes that want to bring the wide bandwidth
in the cyber cafés or in the internet call services.
5.4.5.2 PLC Cost example
As it regards the Power Line Communications instead, the website
bplinterference.wikispaces.com brings a gross calculation of a reasonable supply of the PLC
service in an African rural area:
Assuming to serve 10 people per mile, and assuming:
• CPE cost: € 356 each
• Repeaters: € 712 each
• Customer Take Rate: 30%
• Backhaul cost: € 712 per month (a T1)
• Repeater distance: 182 meters
• Feed point cost/misc routing equip: € 3561
• Revenue per customer per month: € 28