Scenarios and business models for 4G in Europe
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This paper investigates the main trends and uncertainties that will define fourth generation mobile systems and services (4G) in Europe. It outlines two divergent visions on 4G: the so-called "immediate" 4G vision, consisting of wireless local area networks (WLANts) combined with other wireless access technologies, competing with 3G in the short term, and the so-called "linear" 4G vision, in which the 3G standard is not replaced until the end of its life cycle by an ultra-high speed broadband wireless network. Which of these visions will materialise, and what this means for the competitiveness of the main 4G stakeholders in Europe, will be to a large extent determined by which business models are feasible for 4G. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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TNO Identifier
238221
ISSN
14636697
Source
Info, 6(6), pp. 363-382.
Pages
363-382
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