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When standards become business models: reinterpreting “failure” in the standardization paradigmPurpose This paper aims to explore the question: “What is the relationship between standards and business models?” and illustrate the conceptual linkage with reference to developments in the mobile communications industry. Des...
Tập 9 Số 5 - Trang 20-30 - 2007
Bridging wireless and wired networks: smart phone operating systems, IP convergence and market segmentationFocuses on current and near‐term efforts to integrate Web browsing, computing, e‐mail, video telephony and voice telephony in a hand‐held device. Concludes with observations about the probable product/markets resulting from integration. Concludes the Far East seems to be the potential market for smart phones.
Tập 1 Số 6 - Trang 563-576 - 1999
Survival of the fittest: formation and development of international alliances in telecommunicationsExamines global aspirations of operators that have chosen to increase their global reach via a process of take‐over rather then joint venture, considering their prospects. Discusses recent cell phone trends and concludes that it is difficult to pick winners at this point in history as their industry structure changes on an almost daily basis.
- 1999
Serving under‐serviced areas in South Africa: the potential for Wi‐Fi community network deployment and the role of regulationPurpose Wi‐Fi technologies enable small‐scale, bottom‐up development of community networks in (rural) under‐serviced areas in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine: the constraints and opportunities that small Wi‐Fi providers have faced to date in their endeavors to develop Wi‐Fi communit...
Tập 10 Số 1 - Trang 65-78 - 2008
Standardising wholesale super‐fast broadband access: the public rolePurpose This paper seeks to set out a framework for assessing whether and how to intervene in the standardisation of new technologies, based on the experience of Ofcom, the UK converged communications regulator. Design/methodo...
- 2009
Markets vs regulators and the battle to determine market structure: evidence from the UK cable industryIt is well known that it is difficult to dislodge incumbents if new entrants provide identical services via identical channels. Hence, it was expected that, especially in a broadband world, the main competition for fixed‐wire networks would come from cable operators. The UK was one of the first countries in Europe to develop cable as a practical alternative to fixed‐wire telephony, but in ... ... hiện toàn bộ
- 2004
EU regulation and the development of mobile and broadband servicesPurpose This paper aims to examine the recent performance of European Union (EU) telecommunications policy in the context of the policy aims set out in the original green paper of 1987. It also aims to consider some problems encountered in applying the regulatory rules to interconnection, mobile roaming and broa...
Tập 15 Số 2 - Trang 39-61 - 2013
What happened to Europe’s wireless advantage?In the 1990s, the Euro‐Nordic industry leaders in wireless communications enjoyed a period of explosive growth as the vision of the mobile Internet captured the market momentum. But the bursting of the Internet bubble, excessive 3G licence fees and the general industry downturn has dramatically affected Europe’s wireless future. This article examines the reasons for the success of Europe’s... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 4 Số 5 - Trang 4-11 - 2002