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S-38.3041 Operator Business (5 credit points) L

Spring 2008


 General | Suitability | Lectures | Exercises | Teams | Completion | Personnel | Registration | Material | Topics and timetable

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General

This course is targeted to Telecom Management students. The course gives insight to the business dynamics of networks and services. Network-related value nets are handled from the viewpoints of different players. Theory is clarified with case examples.

Suitability

Participants should have good prior knowledge on networking technology (e.g. S-38.188 or S-38.2188 - Computer Networks) and general economics (e.g. TU-22.101, TU-22.1101 or TU-22.1102 - Introduction to Industrial Management).

Lectures

Lectures are held in English language on Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:15-10:00 in hall S1.

Exercises

An obligatory exercise will be arranged in a form of a mobile operator business game (MOB) session in late April. Questions about the business game can be asked by email from Turo Brunou.
The mobile operator business game will consist of a short preliminary exercise (per team), the actual business game session, and a short final report (per individual).
The dates for the mobile operator business game sessions are (4-6 teams, 3-4 members/team):
Register to the MOB business game session by sending an email to the course assistant. You need to register by April 10. If you have wishes for who you would like to have in your team (4 team members) and on which date you would like to participate to MOB please include also that in the registration email. Also indicate if all the dates are fine for you! Remeber also to add your studentID in your registration email! The teams will be published 11.04.2008.
The game sessions will be held at Maari building. There will be a lunch break at approximately 12:00-13:00 during each session. You can check how the sessions were held 2 years ago from here.
The exercise will be graded. The amount of additional bonus points that a student can receive is 6 exam points. All the parts in the exercise will be graded, i.e. the preliminary report, the actual game session, and the final report. The bonus points cannot turn an unacceptable exam result to an acceptable one. The bonus points received from the MOB game will be valid in all the exams held before the start of next years Operator Business course.
The teams for the mobile operator business can be found here.
The player instructions for MOB can be found here.
The preliminary exercise can be found here.
The final report question paper for the MOB exercise can be found here.
Final season results for MOB game sessions can be found here: session1 session2 session3 session4.

Completion

The completion of the course requires an acceptable performance in the exam and active participation to the obligatory business game session. In the exam there will be 5 questions a 6 points, yielding max 30 points. The student may also receive additional points from the exercise. However, the bonus points cannot turn an unacceptable exam result to an acceptable one. The bonus points received from the MOB game will be valid in all the exams held before the start of next years Operator Business course.
A list of possible exam questions for year 2008.
The first exam will be held on Wednesday May 7 at 9:00-12:00 in hall S4.

Personnel

The responsible teacher is prof. Heikki Hämmäinen (HH) and the course is coordinated by course assistant Turo Brunou (TB).
Other lecturers:

Registration

Registering required via WebOodi before 30.03.2008.

Material

The course is structured around the lecture slides which will appear on this web page prior to each lecture. Additional course materials will not be available via Edita, i.e. no need to subscribe to Edita.
The core course material includes lecture slides (to be available on web before each lecture) and the following readings:
Note that the exam will include lecture slides that go beyond the scope of the readings list above. Thus attending lectures is likely to improve student's performance in the exam.

Topics and timetable

Date  Topic Slides
14.03.2008  Course introduction. Big picture. (HH) Slides
19.03.2008  Consumer customers (HH) Slides
21.03.2008  No lecture (Easter)
26.03.2008  No lecture (Easter)
28.03.2008  Enterprise customers (HH) Slides
02.04.2008  Operators (AK) Slides
04.04.2008  Transport pricing (AK) Slides
09.04.2008  Mobile operator competition (TB) Slides | Slides
11.04.2008  Content pricing (HV) Slides
16.04.2008  Investments (TS) Slides
18.04.2008  Interconnect and roaming (HH) Slides
23.04.2008  Charging and billing (HV) Slides
25.04.2008  Regulation (TS) Slides
30.04.2008  Spectrum, course wrap-up (TS) Slides


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