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Development Model of a Public Safety Broadband Communications Network in Indonesia

Authors:
Gerson Damanik
Denny Hendraningrat

Keywords: public safety broadband network, sharing scheme, NPV, LTE

Abstract:
Abstract — The Public and Private Partnership (PPP) development model of a public safety broadband network between cellular operators and public safety agencies, such as the National Disaster Management Agency, is a challenge for the government of Indonesia to provide broadband access. Public safety agencies are local governments, police agency, health agency, fire brigades. Each agency built their networks independently. In this study, the public safety broadband network model in Indonesia is developed by using an investment budget to build a broadband network of each agency. The budget of each agency is a function of compensation for the public safety, because they do not build their own network separately, but they rather share it with the cellular network. Public safety users are included as cellular users who will be given priority access or Quality of Service (QoS), but they are not profitable users for cellular operators. So, a cellular operator only receives infrastructure compensation budget due to the addition of user traffic for public safety, because this is part of the responsibilities of the government. The feasibility of this model will be measured by Net Present Value (NPV) calculations. From a cellular operator perspective, it is concluded that operators choose the 2x25 MHz option, which must share bandwidth and network infrastructure with public safety agencies. It has a higher NPV than the 2x20 MHz option, which is only for commercial Long Term Evilution (LTE). From a government perspective, the NPV always has a positive value. So, it indicates that the government needs to consider implementing a development model of a public safety broadband network with a sharing scheme between cellular operators and public safety agencies.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: June 25, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3980

ISBN: 978-1-61208-564-7

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 25, 2017 to June 29, 2017