Editing Telecommunications forecasting (section)

==Factors influencing forecasting==

When forecasting it is important to understand which factors may influence the calculation, and to what extent. A list of some common factors can be seen below:<ref name="kennedy" />

*'''[[Technology]]'''
**''subscriber access'' – fibre, wireless, wired, cellular, [[Time-division multiple access|TDMA]], [[CDMA]], handsets
**''application'' – telephony, [[Private branch exchange|PBXs]], [[ISDN]], videoconferencing, LANs, teleconferencing, internetworking, [[Wide area network|WAN]]s
**''technology'' – broadband, narrowband, carriers, fibre to the curb, [[Digital subscriber line|DSL]]
*'''[[Economics]]'''
**''Global Economics'' – Economic climate, predictions, estimates, economic factors, interest rates, prime rate, growth, management's outlook, investors' confidence, politics
**''Sectoral Economics'' – trends in industry, investors’ outlook, telecommunications, emerging technologies growth rate, recessions, and slowdowns
**''Macroeconomics'' – inflation, [[Gross domestic product|GDP]], exports, monetary exchange rates, imports, government deficit, economic health
*'''[[Demographics]]'''
**''Measurement of number of people in regions'' – how many were born, are living and died within a time period
**''The way people live'' – health, fertility, marriage rates, ageing rate, conception, mortality