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This article shows State of the Art of techno-economic modeling for access network technologies, presents the characteristics a universal techno-economic model should have, and shows a classification and analysis of techno-economic models in the literature based on such characteristics. In order to reduce the gap detected in the literature, the author created and developed a Universal Techno-Economic Model and the corresponding methodology for techno-economic assessment in multiple domains, currently available for industry stakeholders under specific licence of use.

Dr. Carlos Bendicho holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from Bilbao School of Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Spain. He is also MBA from Technical University of Madrid and MIT Sloan Executive Program in Artificial Intelligence and Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is ACM Member and IEEE Communications Society Member.

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Bendicho, C. (2021). Techno-economic Assessment in Communications: Models for Access Network Technologies. In: Arai, K. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1363. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73100-7_24

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