The disruptive potential of Wi-Fi in the German hotspot market

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 615-631

  Hüsig, Stefan ^a   Hipp, Christiane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

802.11; Disruptive technology; MNOs; Mobile communications; Mobile Network Operators; Public hotspots; Wi Fi; Wireless Fidelity; Wireless Internet Service Providers; Wireless local area network; WISPs; Wlan

Indexed keywords

802.11; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; MNOS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; PUBLIC HOTSPOTS; WIRELESS FIDELITY; WIRELESS INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; WISPS; WLAN;

COMMERCE; INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; WI-FI; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 67649509605     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2009.025534     Document Type: Article

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