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PING

Pricing in Next-Generation Networks

FTTH - network of the future

Marlies Van der Wee received her MSc degree in Engineering, option Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Ghent University (Belgium) in July 2010. She joined the Techno-Economics research unit at IBCN (Internet Based Communication Networks and Services) in September 2010, at the same university. There, Marlies has been working towards obtaining her PhD on techno-economic multi-actor analysis of Fibre-to-the-Home deployments. Currently, Marlies is a visiting researcher at the Centre of the Digital Enterprise (CODE) at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand, where she is working on a comparison of FTTH deployments in New Zealand and Europe based on a three-way approach that involves technology, policy and markets.

About us

Fernando Beltran is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Business School, and director of PING. Before, he was active as an Associate Professor in Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

Fernando holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia) and a PhD from SUNY at Stony Brook, USA.

PING (Pricing in Next Generation Networks) was founded in August 2004 as a means to lay out a research programme on service pricing in Next-Generation Networks (NGN) at the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Auckland.

The goals of PING can be summarized as:

  • Develop innovative pricing schemes for IP-based communication networks

  • Investigate the utilisation of new enabling tools, which include intelligent agents and policy-based network management, to assess the potential of short-term customer-provider contracts to promote economic efficiency on wireless IP-based network service markets.

  • Create an analytical framework to develop a dynamic model of competition between IP-platforms.

  • Establish links with New Zealand telecommunications industry to help advance knowledge generation on key issues regarding regulation and policy towards NGN.

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