Business Evaluation and Perspectives

This chapter presents a techno‐economic analysis and a business evaluation of the FUTON architecture. It covers the business evaluation of the FUTON architecture by considering different profiles in terms of both territorial morphology and average user characteristics representative of the characteristics of many regions in Europe and in other parts of the world. It is based on a network model that combines various types of coverage areas (dense urban, urban, suburban and rural), and hence various types of network configuration in terms of cell density and size, area of coverage, and customer base are used. The study considers as financial indicator the net present value (NPV) for a five year period, and presents sensitivity graphs for the effects of critical parameters of the network design on NPV. It is shown that the FUTON network solution has very promising financial perspectives.