A DEMAND FORECASTING METHOD FOR NEW TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES

Forecasting the demand for new telecommunication services

This paper proposes a novel forecasting method which is applicable for new services, where little historical data has been recorded. The method uses instead estimators based on economical, demographic and traffic data. The method is, compared to traditional forecasting procedures that are built upon a solid historical record of data, clearly found to be weaker numerically. However, for novel se...

Forecasting market demand for new telecommunications services: an introduction

The marketing team of a new telecommunications company is usually tasked with producing forecasts for diverse stakeholders with different needs. Consequently, those outside marketing often do not realize the many reasons for developing forecasts, nor the marketing theory used and the challenges involved in doing so. Based on our three decades of experience working with telecommunications operat...

Forecasting Demand For New Consumer Services : Challenges And Alternatives

Variations on Matrix Balancing for Telecommunication Demand Forecasting

Matrix balancing is a term that describes the process of altering the elements of a matrix to make it conform to known regularity conditions while still remaining close to the original matrix Often the regularity conditions relate only to the row and col umn sums which yields problems having a desirable network structure We describe an application in telecommunication demand forecasting that ad...

A spectrum comparison method for demand forecasting

Almost all demand forecasting methods work in the time domain. We describe a method that operates in the frequency domain. Using discrete Fourier transform, we decompose a given set of demand data into a set of sine and cosine functions. The Fourier coefficients contain information about the frequencies and amplitudes in these sinusoids and allow us to reconstruct the original given demand data...