Telecom Tycoon

A 2D isometric management game where you begin as a CEO of a small telecom company somewhere in the 90s. Build the infrastructure, connect homes to your telephone network, launch marketing campaigns to get customer, grow. Research new technologies to improve and innovate, progress to mobile and internet technologies while competing with other companies in the market.

Technologies

Land Line

LDF (Local Distribution Frame) another word for those street cabinets you occasionally see. Their job is to connect the surrounding houses with copper wires and provide the connection points to your phone.

PBX (Private Branch Exchange) When a large company wants to create a small private network between their branches they can go for the PBX. Unlike the private customers, it will facilitate a more business oriented features such as conf calls, call blocking, logging etc. with the additional security and privacy, 

Communication Room including the following: MDF (Main Distribution Frame), Teleswitch - like the LDF, the MDF are large panels with lots of subscribercoming from all the LDFs around. The Teleswitch is the heart of the telephone network and it will route and connect calls coming from subscriberto subscriber.

Mechanics

Place the LDF or the PBX around town. Selecting a building for the Communication room, renting or buying it. 

Buy and Place various components in the Com-room such as MDF, Teleswitch, power supplies, AC units etc..

Send technician teams to the placed buildings to install their equipment.

Connect between various components. 

Grow your customer base by hiring Sale reps, or launching local ad campaigns.

The more customers you have, the more complaints you get. Hire Customer service teams to assist with complaints and improve customer satisfaction. low customer satisfaction will increase their churn rate.

Connections between buildings on the map go over or under city roads. It's wise to diversify connection routes as disaster could case a malfunction to all the connections on a particular road, causing huge traffic outages.