Investment strategies for different actors in indoor mobile market : "in view of the emerging spectrum authorization schemes" ; 24th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Florence, Italy, 20 - 23 October 2013

The regulatory landscape is changing towards more flexible spectrum management schemes. Such schemes are expected to make additional spectrum resources available and lower the spectrum access barriers. Emerging spectrum authorization schemes such as secondary access (TV White Space) and Licensed Shared Access (LSA) are expected to open doors for new actors rather than traditional MNOs to access licensed spectrum resources at reasonable costs. These schemes will allow actors such as Facility Owners (FO), Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to invest in indoor mobile network infrastructure. These actors can act as Local Network Operators (LNO) and build their business models around provisioning of mobile services in locations where there seems to be a "hole" or lack of service coverage in a particular area within the mobile network operators (MNOs) service footprint...