Due to the high costs associated with the deployment of the passive infrastructure of FTTH networks, operators ponder … economic aspects of network sharing in FTTH/PON architectures. The capabilities of present and future versions of PON … architectures and the cost implications of a network sharing model are described. Moreover, the minimum price of the access line …

Due to the high costs associated with the deployment of the passive infrastructure of FTTH networks, operators ponder … economic aspects of network sharing in FTTH/PON architectures. The capabilities of present and future versions of PON … architectures and the cost implications of a network sharing model are described. Moreover, the minimum price of the access line …

debates often concentrate on cost- containment strategies and search for improved efficient resource allocation and equitable … progress, productivity, and cost: three important dimensions of the evolving modern healthcare systems. It provides a logical … integration of three strands of work linking healthcare cost to technology and research evidence on sectoral productivity …

, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … percent decrease in unit cost of heat input, and (3) a lower capacity factor even after adjusting for cross-plant generation … re-allocation due to cost reductions. Based on these estimates, back-of-the-envelope calculations find that restructuring …

episodes of financial distress and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost-of-funds subsidy of … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected-return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of scale …