This week we’re turning our attention to the possible decentralization of the “mobile packet core”, which promises a significant departure from how cellular networks have traditionally been implemented. With Amar Padmanabhan.
Interesting post! The challenges of incentives, service cost and billing federation are particularly thought provoking. There is space for some standards and protocols around that (e.g. "I'm a small cell operator and I charge X units per MB" where "units" could be USD or these HNTs you speak about) and some placement optimization algorithms by the large carriers ("I think I'll go with Bruce's small-cell because it's the most cost effective"). A win-win business environment, where everybody benefits: the end customer with better coverage, the large carriers, the small cell operators, and all the middlemen developing equipment and software to stitch this all together.
Interesting post! The challenges of incentives, service cost and billing federation are particularly thought provoking. There is space for some standards and protocols around that (e.g. "I'm a small cell operator and I charge X units per MB" where "units" could be USD or these HNTs you speak about) and some placement optimization algorithms by the large carriers ("I think I'll go with Bruce's small-cell because it's the most cost effective"). A win-win business environment, where everybody benefits: the end customer with better coverage, the large carriers, the small cell operators, and all the middlemen developing equipment and software to stitch this all together.