Opportunities and threats by mobile platforms: The (new) role of mobile network operators

2010 14th Int. Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks: "Weaving Applications Into the Network Fabric", ICIN 2010 - 2nd Int. Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms, BMMP 10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Stanoevska Slabeva, Katarina ^a,b   Wozniak, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Application store; Mobile network operator; Mobile platform; Platform based business model

Indexed keywords

ART ANALYSIS; BUSINESS MODELS; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; MOBILE PLATFORM; MOBILE SERVICE; NETWORK CAPABILITY; VALUE NETWORK;

ARTS COMPUTING; ECOLOGY; INDUSTRY; MOBILE PHONES; WEAVING;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 78650596189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIN.2010.5640892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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