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In the face of the need to reduce digital gaps, the most important thing is enabling broadband Internet users, whose increase leads to an increase in GDP. Broadband coverage remains low in many countries, as investment in ICT infrastructure development is expensive and time consuming. The cost of building fibre optic cable lines can be optimized using the infrastructure of other industries, such as transportation, energy and others, through co-deployment and sharing. The purpose of this work is to determine the effectiveness of integrating the ICT infrastructure with road transport and electricity infrastructure by identifying the main factors and parameters for determining the appropriate co-deployment and the model of this process’s synergetic effect. The paper identifies the main factors (technical, geographical, socio-economic) and the parameters for determining the co-deployment of ICT infrastructure with road transport and electricity, as well as the principles of infrastructure assessment in the context of the proposed parameters. The model of emergence of synergetic effect of economic, social and technical and technological character from co-deployment of infrastructures of all involved spheres is presented. Consequently, the co-deployment of ICT infrastructure with transport and electricity infrastructure will close existing digital gaps and develop the digital economy, and will increase the profitability of all sectors of the economy, and in particular the life-sustaining sector. |
