naa a22 4500 510794637 CHVBK 20180411083331.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11277-013-1064-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11277-013-1064-5 Distribution of 3G Services Among Rural Towns: Case Study of Bhutan [Elektronische Daten] [Dago Tshering, Roungsan Chaisricharoen, Punnarumol Temdee] In developed countries, 3G services are common and usually provided by several private operators with almost 100% coverage. However, the situation is quite different in most developing countries with majority of people are considered under poverty. In most of these countries, telecommunication services are provided by state enterprise which cannot only make profit but have to support people as well. Therefore, compromise must be made in order to serve people within acceptable profit. In this paper, the distribution of 3G services among rural towns are modeled and optimized by the famous linear programming. The proposed model considers both population coverage and expected income, which can be easily utilized by state telecommunication enterprise of any developing country. The example is made based on the case of three border towns of Bhutan. With flexible adjustment of parameters, the proposed technique provides tradeoff valued to investment. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Distribution of 3G services nationallicence Developing countries nationallicence State enterprise nationallicence Linear programming nationallicence Flexible adjustment nationallicence Tshering Dago School of Information Technology, Mae Fah Luang University, 57100, Thasud, Chiang Rai, Thailand aut Chaisricharoen Roungsan School of Information Technology, Mae Fah Luang University, 57100, Thasud, Chiang Rai, Thailand aut Temdee Punnarumol School of Information Technology, Mae Fah Luang University, 57100, Thasud, Chiang Rai, Thailand aut Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 69/3(2013-04-01), 1047-1054 0929-6212 69:3<1047 2013 69 11277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1064-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1064-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tshering Dago School of Information Technology, Mae Fah Luang University, 57100, Thasud, Chiang Rai, Thailand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chaisricharoen Roungsan School of Information Technology, Mae Fah Luang University, 57100, Thasud, Chiang Rai, Thailand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Temdee Punnarumol School of Information Technology, Mae Fah Luang University, 57100, Thasud, Chiang Rai, Thailand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 69/3(2013-04-01), 1047-1054 0929-6212 69:3<1047 2013 69 11277 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer