Estimating the willingness to pay for access to high-capacity telecoms networks: (i) what behavioural factors may hinder business and residential consumers from taking up new services and what factors drive them? (ii) what policy interventions might address these?
Background
For the deployment of current and future technologies, DI wishes to develop a stronger evidence base around the benefits of and barriers to their deployment, with a focus on the adoption of 5G and open network infrastructure to build the resilience of networks and support innovation. DI needs to develop models and techniques to understand efficient spectrum allocation and understand the issues surrounding the use of specific spectrum bands.
DI needs to better understand the trends around technological convergence, future demand for digital connectivity, regulation around access to the internet and emerging cloud services and their impact on security.
DI wishes to complement its understanding of current technology deployment with research into the work driving future technologies to develop and increase the UK’s future capabilities.
All of this needs to be underpinned by further research into the security and resilience of UK networks, addressing future developments and threats, gaining insight into the value of security interventions and barriers to investment in security.
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Source
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Related UKRI funded projects
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UK-India Future Networks Initiative
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Why might this be relevant?
Partially answers the question by focusing on future telecoms collaboration and research, but does not specifically address willingness to pay or policy interventions.
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EPSRC NETWORK in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services- Enablers for the Digital Economy
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Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on Next Generation Telecommunications Networks and addresses barriers to deployment and adoption of new services.
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UKRI-India Future Networks Initiative
This proposal will provide the networking and pump priming funds needed to establish a re-strengthened Indo-UK telecoms research network; academically led but including UK and Indian industry partners. The science scope...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on Open-RAN technologies, AI-enabled networks, security, and future network capabilities, directly addressing the barriers and drivers for consumers in adopting new telecom services.