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Telecommunication networks, systems, and the services they provide are defined to fulfill a set of technical requirements within the state‐of‐the‐art solutions and the affordable economic conditions.

Thus, not any telecommunications solution can fulfill the need of any service. However, from a pragmatic perspective, some needs and/or some industries may trim their requirements to the capabilities of existing telecommunications solutions.

From a practical Smart Grid implementation perspective, one of the main decisions when selecting telecommunication solutions is the option of deploying private telecommunication networks, as an alternative to using commercial telecommunication services from TSPs. It is often not a question or selecting one or the other, but how to select the best combination of both, leveraging the full control that private networks offer, with the use of TSP services that may be already available in third‐party deployed networks (TSPs'). In both cases, but probably more relevant when the services are provided by TSPs, there are two important aspects that need to be taken into account. The first one is the national regulation of the conditions under which any telecommunication solution is licensed in a given territory; the second, pretty much affected by the first one, is the network design and its implementation on field, together with the operation and maintenance aspects.

Thus, the service adequacy of a telecommunications solution needs to be evaluated considering the integration of several aspects, at least, the solution conception based on the requirements to be fulfilled, and its practical implementation within the constraints of network design decisions, regulation and business plans. As a consequence, the assessment of how the different Telecommunication solutions fit Smart Grid requirements must evaluate many different alternatives under a non‐evident set of considerations.