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The Should-Cost Clean Sheet

We rebuild your vendor costs bottom-up—from tickets data, interviews, and global benchmarks—to reveal what your network shouldcost versus what you're billed.

We don't implement and we take no SI fees. We tell you what your network should cost—and who's overcharging you.

Deployment mode:
Total
Cost / GB
6 cost buckets
Every figure is typed
CalculatedInput (data / interviews)Assumption (benchmarked)
Deployment controlOptimal controlNeutralLock-in riskValue leak

RAN

5G NSA → SA, Open RAN / vRAN, early 6G

Lock-in risk · legacyHeavy SI / services load
OEMSI

Clean-sheet inputs

0/4 entered

Industry benchmark range

~42% of network cost

10–30% (build) · 15–30% (energy)

Lever: Open RAN, vRAN, network sharing, AI energy savings

Bluelay's role

Your vendors and SIs run this. Bluelay independently rebuilds the should-cost and tests every assumption against global benchmarks—we don't implement it.

Your should-cost gap is computed in a Bluelay engagement

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See this projected to 2035 → Margin-per-GB Cockpit

Same six cost layers, one source of truth—bent forward by autonomy, 6G, LEO & fiber.

This view illustrates Bluelay's clean-sheet methodology using publishable industry benchmark ranges only. It contains no operator-specific, confidential, or non-public data. Cost shares and savings ranges are illustrative and drawn from public sources (McKinsey/Tech Mahindra transformation levers, TMForum, analyst benchmarks). Any client-specific should-cost, fair-margin gap, or margin-per-GB trajectory is rebuilt bottom-up from that client's own tickets data, interviews, and benchmarks under a Bluelay engagement. Inputs you enter stay in your browser and are never transmitted.