Mobile Telecommunications in a High-Speed World: Industry Structure, Strategic Behaviour and Socio-Economic Impact

ISBN-13: 9781409403616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 274 str.

Peter Curwen; Jason Whalley

Opis

This title tells the story of 3G and higher-speed mobile communication technologies. The authors introduce the outcomes of research that has involved the compilation of a unique database with detail of every licence and launch worldwide involving 3G.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 High-Speed Data Transmission; Chapter 2 Spectrum Issues; Chapter 3 Licensing of High-Speed Data Networks; Chapter 4 High-Speed Data Network Launches; Chapter 5 Characterizing Data Services; Chapter 6 Issues in Mobile Industry Structure – Vendors; Chapter 7 The iPhone: A Case Study of Innovation in the Mobile Handset Market; Chapter 8 Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!: A Case Study in Internet Evolution; Chapter 9 The Role of 3G New Entrants in Promoting Competition; Chapter 10 Issues in Mobile Industry Structure – Operators; Chapter 11 Socio-Economic Impact;

O autorze

Professor Peter Curwen was until September 2002 Professor of Business Economics at Sheffield Hallam University, in the UK. He is now retired from his full time role but remains Visiting Professor of Telecommunications Strategy at Strathclyde University where he began to research and publish jointly with his co-author. He has spent the past decade building up a unique set of databases on mobile telecommunications technology containing information otherwise unavailable in the public domain. Dr Jason Whalley is Reader in Management Science at Strathclyde University. Since roughly 2000, he has concentrated his research on mobile telecommunications, and in particular upon the structure of the industry and the strategic behaviour of operators. Both authors have published extensively.