Adding value to the network: Mobile operators' experiments with Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service models

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-21

  Gonalves, Vânia ^a   Ballon, Pieter ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business models; Mobile operators; Mobile platforms; Platform as a Service; Software as a Service

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; MOBILE OPERATORS; MOBILE PLATFORM; PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE; SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE;

MOBILE PHONES; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WEB SERVICES;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 80052277144     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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