Nokia Bell Labs Consulting Open Access LTE Executive Summary
A nationwide LTE rollout typically requires large investments, takes a long time to deploy,
and provides delayed profitability for the operators, especially when covering large and
sparse rural markets. In this situation a wholesale LTE model — Open Access LTE — can
reduce investment risks and improve the profitability of LTE services for incumbent 2G/3G
mobile network operators (MNOs), and can even spur competition.