  This doctoral dissertation 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 defines and
develops a Universal Techno-Economic Model called UTEM and the corresponding
methodology to industrialize techno-economic assessment in multiple domains
considering all market players perspectives, also suitable for technological
consulting and currently available for all industry stakeholders under specific
license of use.
