UMTS Network Design & Cost

UMTS Network Design & Cost pdf

A design exercise was carried out in order to assess the deployment cost of national UMTS networks in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz bands. The design was carried out to provide voice & data coverage to 95% of the population and 80% of the geographic area of the Republic of Ireland. The number of base-station sites required for a 900 MHz network was found to be 533, 1013 for an 1800 MHz network and 1243 for a 2100MHz network.
Dimensioning was then carried out for an assumed subscriber profile giving a requirement for seven RNC’s to switch 4.28Gbps of traffic. The core network was then also dimensioned.
In estimating the cost of network deployment, the following network model was taken into account.

Detailed pricing was examined for turnkey rollout, the Radio Access Network (RAN), the core network, the service layer, mediation, provisioning, middleware & applications, network management and customer management.
All hardware pricing are estimates. Vendors do not publish pricing, and hardware costs are generally blended into turnkey packages including services and O&M. Vilicom has estimated pricing based on the projects on which it has worked internationally. The following costs were calculated based on recent network deployment costs for UMTS networks internationally.